place
Euboea
also: Εὔβοια
The long island off the coast of Boeotia and Attica, 'famed for ships,' where Leto searched for a birthplace (Hymn 3) and where Apollo later sets foot at Cenaeum on his own journey.
Reading notes
- The Homeric Hymns §3.1 Euboea
The long island off the coast of Boeotia and Attica, 'famed for ships,' where Leto searched for a birthplace (Hymn 3) and where Apollo later sets foot at Cenaeum on his own journey.
- The Odyssey §3.148 Euboea
The island the fleet was told by omen to cut straight across to, to escape misfortune.