Samothrace
place · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
wooded Samothrace
in the texts
On the Nature of the Gods
Aegean island associated with secret mystery cults.
I leave aside Samothrace and those mysteries of Lemnos, "approached by night, in secret worship, thick-set with woodland hedges" — which, when unfolded and brought back to a rational account, teach us rather the nature of things than the nature of the gods.
Iliad
Island from which Poseidon watches the battle before descending to intervene.
he had been looking admiringly on the battle from his seat on the topmost crests of wooded Samothrace, whence he could see all Ida, with the city of Priam and the ships of the Achaeans.
Hellenica
Island from which Athenian generals gather.
Then the generals of the Athenians gathered together from Samothrace, Thasos, and the places in that region, and set out to aid the people of Tenedos.