Pieria
place · 5 works · 5 mentions · 5 anchored passages
shadowy mountains of Pieria
in the texts
Bacchae
The seat of the Muses on the slope of Olympus, named by the chorus as a place of beauty it wishes to visit with Dionysus.
Blessed Pieria, the Joyful one reveres you and will come to lead the dance in revelry;
Lead me there, Bromius, Bromius, god of joy who leads the Bacchae, to Pieria, beautiful seat of the Muses, the holy slope of Olympus.
Works and Days
The region associated with the Muses, invoked in the poem's opening line as 'Muses of Pieria'.
Muses of Pieria who give glory through song, come hither, tell of Zeus your father and chant his praise.
Iliad
Region Hera passes over on her journey from Olympus.
She passed over Pieria and fair Emathia, and went on and on till she came to the snowy ranges of the Thracian horsemen, over whose topmost crests she sped without ever setting foot to ground.
Odyssey
A region Hermes flies over while traveling from Olympus toward Calypso's island.
He took the wand with which he seals men's eyes in sleep or wakes them just as he pleases, and flew holding it in his hand over Pieria;
Hymn 4 to Hermes
Pieria is the mountainous pasture region where Apollo's cattle are kept before Hermes steals them.
-->“Old man, weeder of grassy Onchestus, I am come here from Pieria seeking cattle, cows all of them, all with curving horns, from my herd.
The Sun was going down beneath the earth towards Ocean with his horses and chariot when Hermes came hurrying to the shadowy mountains of Pieria, where the divine cattle of the blessed gods had their steads and grazed the pleasant, unmown meadows.