Simois
place · 4 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
Simois river · the land of Simois
in the texts
Hecuba
A river and its surrounding land near Troy, named by the Chorus as devastated by the war's curse.
and from one man’s folly came a universal curse, bringing death to the land of Simois, with trouble from an alien shore.
Iphigenia in Aulis
River near Troy to whose channels the chorus envisions the Greek fleet rowing.
The Hellenes’ gathered army will come in arms aboard their ships to Simois with its silver eddies, to Ilium, the plain of Troy beloved by Phoebus;
And on the towers of Troy and round her walls shall Trojans stand, when sea-borne troops with brazen shields row in on shapely ships to the channels of the Simois, eager to take Helen, the sister of that heavenly pair whom Zeus begot, from Priam, and bear her back to Hellas by toil of Achaean shields and spears.
Rhesus
A river near Troy, invoked by the Captain of the Watch as he swears an oath of his vigilance.
I swear by Simois river,
The Trojan Women
River near Troy where, according to the chorus, Heracles moored his ship before the city's first destruction.
When he led the chosen flower of Hellas, vexed for the steeds, and at the fair stream of Simois he stayed his sea-borne ship and fastened cables to the stern, and forth from the ship he took the bow his hand could deftly shoot, to be the doom of Laomedon;