Sidon
place · 6 works · 7 mentions · 8 anchored passages
Sidon in Phoenicia · Sidonians · Syrian Sidon
in the texts
Iliad
Phoenician city from which Alexander brought the women who embroidered the robes, during the same voyage on which he carried off Helen.
She then went down into her fragrant store-room, where her embroidered robes were kept, the work of Sidonian women, whom Alexander had brought over from Sidon when he sailed the seas [ pontos] upon that voyage during which he carried off Helen.
it was the work of cunning artificers in Sidon, and had been brought into port by Phoenicians from beyond the sea [ pontos], who had made a present of it to Thoas.
The Histories
Phoenician city where the Persian envoys charter their triremes and cargo galley.
They came down to the city of Sidon in Phoenicia, and there chartered two triremes, as well as a great galley laden with all good things;
Odyssey
A Phoenician city, named as the origin of King Phaidimos and of the servant woman in Eumaios's tale.
‘I come from Sidon,’ said she, ‘and am daughter to Arybas, a man rolling in wealth.
Phaidimos king of the Sidonians made me a present of it in the course of a visit that I paid him while I was on my return home.
Helen
Cadmus's homeland, from which he came to become king of Thebes.
and in consequence, we experienced a change so great that, although in former times any barbarians who were in misfortune presumed to be rulers over the Greek cities (for example, Danaus, an exile from Egypt, occupied Argos, Cadmus of Sidon became king of Thebes, the Carians colonized the islands, and Pelops, son of Tantalus, became master of all the Peloponnese), yet after that war our race expan …
De Rerum Natura
A city in Syria/Phoenicia cited as an example of a city destroyed by earthquake.
What once in Syrian Sidon did befall,
And earth's convulsion, following hard upon,
O'erthrew of old. And many a walled town,
Chrestomathy
City that Alexander is driven to and captures after Hera raises a storm.
and Alexander, driven to Sidon, takes the city.