Geography/Map List
CLAS230
Classical Mythology in Epic

 Monmouth College, Monmouth, Illinois
Instructor: Thomas J. Sienkewicz (toms@monm.edu)

You should know the significance of each of the following places and be able to find each place on a map. The words in BOLD CAPITALS are the places you should know. The other words are hints at the significance of the place. A sample quiz can be found here.
 

Iliad Geography

TROY: site of the Trojan War

PHTHIA: home of Achilles

LOCRIS: home of lesser Ajax

ARGOS: home of Diomedes

SALAMIS: home of greater Ajax

CRETE: home of Idomeneus

LYCIA: home of Glaucos and Sarpedon (Trojan allies)

AULIS: the sacrifice of Iphigenia and the gathering of the Greek fleet

LEMNOS: island where the Greeks abandoned Philoctetes

For a good study map on Homeric geography, see http://academic.reed.edu/humanities/110Tech/blueseahomermap.gif.

Odyssey Geography

ITHACA: island home of Odysseus

TROY: site of the Trojan War (Iliad)

SPARTA: home of Menelaus and Helen

PYLOS: home of Nestor

MYCENAE: home of Agamemnon

CORFU (Corcyra): home of the Phaeacians

SICILY: Cyclops

LIBYA: Land of the Locust Eaters?

Aeneid Geography

ROME: Virgil

TROY: home of Aeneas

TENEDOS: island where the Greeks hid on the night Troy fell

THRACE: death of Polydorus

DELOS: oracle of Apollo

CRETE: Pergamum

CARTHAGE: Dido

EPIRUS: Helenus and Andromache

CUMAE: the Sibyl

SICILY: Cyclops and Death of Anchises

CORCYRA (CORFU): home of the Phaeacians


This material has been published on the web by Prof. Tom Sienkewicz for his students at Monmouth College. If you have any questions, you can contact him at toms@monm.edu.

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