Tyre
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Tyre in Phoenicia · Tyrians
in the texts
The Histories
Phoenician city from which Greeks abducted Europa
Next, according to their story, some Greeks (they cannot say who) landed at Tyre in Phoenicia and carried off the king's daughter Europa.
At Tyre I saw yet another temple of the so-called Thasian Heracles.
and in conversation with the priests, I asked how long it was since their temple was built.
On the Nature of the Gods
A Phoenician city where a particular Hercules figure was most worshipped
The fourth is of Jove and of Asteria, sister of Latona, who is worshipped most at Tyre, whose daughter they say Carthage was.
Tusculan Disputations
City where Pompey's companions arrived and finally allowed themselves to grieve.
and after they had come to Tyre, then they began to be afflicted and to lament.
Evagoras
City stormed by Evagoras during the war against the Persian king.
but when he was forced to go to war, he proved so valiant, and had so valiant an ally in his son Pnytagoras, that he almost subdued the whole of Cyprus, ravaged Phoenicia, took Tyre by storm, caused Cilicia to revolt from the king, and slew so many of his enemies that many of the Persians, when they mourn over their sorrows, recall the valor of Evagoras.
Panegyricus
A city greatly valued by the Persian King, seized by his enemies.
Has not Tyre, on which he set great store, been seized by his foes?
Adversus Marcionem
City named as a source of the multitude that gathers to Christ, matched to prophecy.
There meet him from Tyre and from other regions a multitude, even from beyond the sea.
Apologeticum
Phoenician city whose king Hieromus is cited as a historical witness.
a Manetho the Egyptian, and a Berosus the Chaldean, but also Hieromus the Phoenician, king of Tyre;
De Anima
City from which Simon redeemed the woman he called Helen.
and, supported also by the powers of his art, for the deceptions of some virtue, he redeemed with that same money a certain Helen of Tyre out of a place of public lust, a worthy wage for himself in place of the Holy Spirit.
De Pallio
Phoenician mother-city of Carthage.
Ever leaders of Africa, men of Carthage, noble in your antiquity, fortunate in your newness, I rejoice that you are so prosperous in your times, since you are thus at leisure and find it pleasant to take note of dress.
Law in a Free State
The ancient city proverbially associated with vice and prostitution, invoked as a byword ('the scourge of Tyre').
By its inexorable law of practically indissoluble marriage, it has brought into existence a huge army of prostitutes, and perpetuated the scourge of Tyre.