Pisa
place · 3 works · 4 mentions · 8 anchored passages
plains of Pisa · the splendor of Pisa
in the texts
Olympian
District around Olympia associated with the games and with Oenomaus's kingdom, repeatedly invoked as the site of victory and the source of 'god-fated songs'.
Indeed, Pisa belongs to Zeus;
Well-wooded grove of Pisa beside the Alpheus, welcome this victory-procession and the garland we bring to the victor;
And when he blossomed with the stature of fair youth, and down darkened his cheek, he turned his thoughts to an available marriage, to win glorious Hippodameia from her father, the lord of Pisa, He drew near to the gray sea, alone in the darkness, and called aloud on the deep-roaring god, skilled with the trident;
Iphigenia in Tauris
City in the Peloponnese where Pelops won Hippodamia and founded the house of Atreus's fortunes.
an old spear of Pelops, in my father’s house, which he brandished in his hand when he won Hippodamia, the maiden of Pisa, and killed Oenomaus;
Pelops, son of Tantalus, coming to Pisa with swift horses, married Oenomaus’ daughter, and she gave birth to Atreus, whose children are Menelaus and Agamemnon;
Nemean
District holding the highest athletic ordinance, that of Heracles, associated with the Olympic games.
Pisa holds the highest ordinance, that of Heracles.