Pelion · Atlas · Falsafa

in the texts

Iphigenia in AulisClassical · Greek

Mountain in Thessaly, home of Chiron and site of the divine wedding-feast of Peleus and Thetis.

In Chiron’s home, at sacred Pelion’s foot.

It was there the gods celebrated the marriage feast of Peleus.

It was on the day Pieria’s lovely-haired choir came over the slopes of Pelion to the wedding of Peleus, beating the ground with print of golden sandals at the banquet of the gods, and hymning in dulcet strains the praise of Thetis and the son of Aeacus, over the Centaurs’ hill, down woods of Pelion.

chapter 8 ¶

StromataLate Antiquity · Greek

Mountain from which the Argo's timbers were cut, part of the causal chain example.

For Medea would not have slain her children had she not been angered, nor would she have been angered had she not been jealous, nor this, had she not loved, nor this, had not Jason sailed to Colchis, nor this, had not the Argo been built, nor this, had not the timbers been cut from Pelion.

book 8 ¶

AlcestisClassical · Greek

A mountain in Thessaly, named as the source of the pine torches used at Admetus and Alcestis's wedding.

Then with torches cut from Pelion’s pines, with marriage hymns I entered in, holding my dear wife’s hand;

alcestis ¶

AndromacheClassical · Greek

Mountain glens where Peleus first embraced Thetis, and to which he resolves to go after burying Neoptolemus.

So I will stay my grief at thy bidding, goddess, and, when I have buried the dead, will seek the glens of Pelion, even the place where I took thy beauteous form to my embrace.

andromache ¶

MedeaClassical · Greek

Mountain in Thessaly from which the timber for the Argo was cut.

would to Heaven the good ship Argo ne’er had sped its course to the Colchian land through the misty blue Symplegades, nor ever in the glens of Pelion the pine been felled to furnish with oars the chieftain’s hands, who went to fetch the golden fleece for Pelias;

medea ¶

PythianClassical · Greek

The mountain in Thessaly that is Cheiron's home and the birthplace of the Centaur race.

and I would want him to reign again in the glens of Pelion, the beast of the wilds whose mind was friendly to men;

chapter 3 ¶

She raised him and named him Centaurus, and he mated with the Magnesian mares in the foothills of Pelion, and from them was born a marvelous horde, which resembled both its parents:

chapter 2 ¶