CLAS230 Classical Mythology
Monmouth College, Monmouth, Illinois

Instructor: Thomas J. Sienkewicz (toms@monm.edu)

Geography List

For the Map/Geography Quiz, 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.
Note: This list is a work in progress.

ARGOS
Clytemnestra
ATHENS
Athena
Eumenides
Procne and Philomela
AULIS
Iphigenia
COLCHIS
Medea
CORCYRA=CORFU=PHAEACIA?
Arete
Nausicaa
CORINTH
Medea
CRETE

Europa

DELPHI
Eumenides
Deucalion and Pyrrha
HELLESPONT
Phrixus and Helle
ITHACA

Penelope
ROME
Ovid
THEBES
Antigone
THESSALY
Io
Medea
THRACE
Tereus, Procne, Philomela

TROY

Cassandra
Hecuba
Helen

Here is a map of Greece with many important mythological sites marked. You can use this to study:
Joe, Jimmy.
Timeless Myths Geographia. Aegean Map.
http://www.timelessmyths.com/classical/aegeanmap.html

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