place
Malea
also: Μαλέαι, Μαλειάων
The stormy headland of the southeastern Peloponnese, doubled by both Nestor's and Menelaus's returning fleets and later fatal to Odysseus's own course (Book 9).
Reading notes
- The Odyssey §3.1 the headland of Malea
A notoriously stormy Peloponnesian cape that scatters Menelaus's fleet with a violent gale.