place
Mount Taygetus
Taygetus
also: Ταΰγετος
The mountain range above Sparta beneath whose peaks Leda bore the Dioscuri to Zeus.
Reading notes
- The Homeric Hymns §17.1 Taygetus
The mountain range above Sparta beneath whose peaks Leda bore the Dioscuri to Zeus.
- The Odyssey §6.71 Taygetus
The long mountain ridge above Sparta, down which Artemis hunts boar and deer in the simile that introduces Nausicaa playing at ball among her handmaids.