Taygetus
place · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
Taÿgetus · great hill Taygetus
in the texts
Odyssey
A mountain named as a hunting ground of Artemis in the simile comparing her to Nausicaa.
As the huntress Artemis goes forth upon the mountains of Taygetus or Erymanthus to hunt wild boars or deer, and the wood-nymphs, daughters of Aegis-bearing Zeus, take their sport along with her (then is Leto proud at seeing her daughter stand a full head taller than the others, and eclipse the loveliest amid a whole bevy of beauties), even so did the girl outshine her handmaids.
Hymn 33 To the Dioscuri
The mountain setting beneath whose peak Leda bears the Dioscuri, anchoring the hymn's Laconian geography.
When Leda had lain with the dark-clouded Son of Cronos, she bare them beneath the peak of the great hill Taygetus, — children who are deliverers of men on earth and of swift-going ships when stormy gales rage over the ruthless sea.
Nemean
Mountain from which Lynceus spots the hidden Dioscuri.
Looking out from Taÿgetus, Lynceus saw them seated in the hollow of an oak;