Sipylus
place · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
in the texts
Iphigenia in Aulis
A frontier town associated with the ancestral line of the house of Atreus, invoked by Achilles in his oath.
or Sipylus, that frontier town of barbarism, the cradle of those chieftains’ line, will be henceforth a city indeed, while Phthia’s name will nowhere find mention.
Olympian
Tantalus's home, site of the banquet he gave for the gods.
When your father invited the gods to a very well-ordered banquet at his own dear Sipylus, in return for the meals he had enjoyed, then it was that the god of the splendid trident seized you, his mind overcome with desire, and carried you away on his team of golden horses to the highest home of widely-honored Zeus, to which at a later time Ganymede came also, to perform the same service for Zeus.