Tenedos
place · 10 works · 12 mentions · 12 anchored passages
in the texts
Iliad
An island named as under Apollo's rule in Chryses' prayer.
"Hear me," he cried, "O god of the silver bow, you who protect Chryse and holy Cilla and rule Tenedos with your might, hear me O god of Sminthe.
Fair Hekamede, whom Nestor had had awarded to him from Tenedos when Achilles took it, mixed them a mess;
Now there is a certain huge cavern in the depths of the sea midway between Tenedos and rocky Imbros;
On the Nature of the Gods
An Aegean island where the hero Tenes was worshipped as a god
and now in Greece they have many gods made out of men — Alabandus at Alabanda, at Tenedos Tenes;
Against Theocrines
An island community on whose behalf Antimedon proposed a decree, the occasion for a bribe paid to Theocrines.
) Call, please, Aristomachus, son of Critodemus, of Alopecê, for it is he who paid—or rather in whose house were paid—the mina and a half to this man who cannot be bribed, in the matter of the decree which Antimedon proposed on behalf of the people of Tenedos.
Apollodorus Against Polycles
The place where Apollodorus again asks Polycles to take over and borrows money for provisions.
Accordingly I borrowed from Cleanax and Eperatus, friends of my father in Tenedos, and gave the sailors their provision-money;
When, then, on our homeward voyage we were in Tenedos, and Lucinus, despite the orders given him by Timomachus, was furnishing no money for sustenance to the sailors (he said he had none, but should get some from Mytilenê), and the men had nothing with which to buy provisions, and without food could not have continued rowing, again taking some of our citizens as witnesses I approached the defendan …
On the Crown
Island aided by Demosthenes' policy.
to preserve places already at our disposal, such as Proconnesus, Chersonesus, Tenedos, by sending succor to them and by suitable speeches and resolutions;
On the Treaty with Alexander
Island or harbor where Athenian ships were compelled to stop by the Macedonians.
for they have grown so arrogant that they forced all our ships coming from the Black Sea to put in at Tenedos, and under one pretence or another refused to release them until you passed a decree to man and launch a hundred war-galleys instantly, and you put Menestheus in command.
Odyssey
Island where the divided Achaean fleet stops to sacrifice before splitting further.
When we reached Tenedos we offered sacrifices to the gods, for we were longing to get home [ nostos];
Nemean
Island city guarded by Aristagoras's companions, his fatherland.
Daughter of Rhea, you who have received the town hall under your protection, Hestia, sister of Zeus the highest and of Hera who shares his throne, welcome Aristagoras to your dwelling, and welcome to a place near your splendid scepter his companions, who, in honoring you, guard Tenedos and keep her on a straight course;
Chrestomathy
Island where the Greeks feast and Philoctetes is bitten by a water-snake.
and while they are feasting, Philoctetes, struck by a water-snake, is left behind on Lemnos because of the foul stench;
Hellenica
Place laid waste by Nicolochus and aided by Athenian commanders.
he turned aside, however, to Tenedos and laid waste its territory, and having obtained money there, sailed on to Abydus.
Then the generals of the Athenians gathered together from Samothrace, Thasos, and the places in that region, and set out to aid the people of Tenedos.