Pitane
place · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
بيتان
in the texts
The Trojan Women
Laconian town with a temple of bronze gates, named in the Chorus's curse against Menelaus.
Never may he reach his home in Laconia or his father’s hearth and home, nor come to the town of Pitane or the temple of the goddess with the gates of bronze, having taken as his captive the one whose marriage brought disgrace on Hellas through its length and breadth and woful anguish on the streams of Simois!
Risālat baqāʼ al-nafs baʻda fanāʼ al-jasad
The Aeolian town given as the birthplace of the sage the footnote calls Arsalawus or Arsizilas.
He was born at “Pitane” «Pitane» — 316–241 before Christ — and he is one of the teachers of Socrates «Socrate».