Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

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    Taenarus

    place · 5 works · 6 mentions · 8 anchored passages

    holy Taenarus · mouth of Taenarus · sacred port of Taenarus

    in the texts

    History of the Peloponnesian WarClassical · Greek

    A sanctuary of Poseidon in Laconia, site of the massacre of Helot suppliants and later of the ruse that exposes Pausanias.

    For the Lacedaemonians having formerly raised up some suppliants of the Helots from the temple of Neptune at Taenarus, led them away and slew them:
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    When therefore, from a concerted plan, the man had gone to Taenarus as a suppliant, and had built himself a hut, divided into two by a partition wall, in which he concealed some of the ephors;
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    They likewise ordered them to drive out the curse of Minerva of the Brazen-House; which was of the following kind.
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    CyclopsClassical · Greek

    Sacred Greek harbor mentioned by Odysseus as part of the Greek sacred landscape preserved from Phrygian desecration

    and the sacred port of Taenarus and Malea’s furthest coves remain unharmed;
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    HeraclesClassical · Greek

    Cape traditionally regarded as an entrance to the underworld, through which Heracles descended for his final labor.

    Other toils he has accomplished, and last of all has he passed through the mouth of Taenarus into the halls of Hades to drag to the light that hound with three bodies, and from there he has never returned.
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    The HistoriesClassical · Greek

    Cape in southern Greece where the dolphin landed Arion and where his bronze memorial stood

    but a dolphin (so the story goes) took Arion on his back and bore him to Taenarus.
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    This is what the Corinthians and Lesbians say, and there is a little bronze memorial of Arion on Taenarus, the figure of a man riding upon a dolphin.
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    The Corinthians say (and the Lesbians agree) that the most marvellous thing that happened to him in his life was the landing on Taenarus of Arion of Methymna, brought there by a dolphin.
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    PythianClassical · Greek

    A headland in Laconia associated with an entrance to the underworld and homeland of the Argonaut Periclymenus.

    For if only Euphemus had gone to his home in holy Taenarus and cast the clod beside the earthly mouth of Hades—
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    and two high-haired men, sons of the earth-shaker, obeying their innate valor, one from Pylos and the other from the headland of Taenarus;
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