Taygetus

At this Brother John fainted, falling like a great buttress of a hill, such as Taygetus or Erymanthus.

Letters to Dead Authors 2006

Instead their travels in Greece led them into the isolated middle peninsula of the southern Peloponnese: the Mani, walled off from the rest of Greece by the Taygetus Mountains.

So No More He'll Go A-Roving David Mason 2011

Instead their travels in Greece led them into the isolated middle peninsula of the southern Peloponnese: the Mani, walled off from the rest of Greece by the Taygetus Mountains.

So No More He'll Go A-Roving David Mason 2011

"We were given the raw-material free—grey, fawn, russet and apricot-coloured limestone—which we hacked, prized and blew out of the side of the Taygetus and roughly dressed with claw-chisels," he wrote in "The Aftermath of Travel."

So No More He'll Go A-Roving David Mason 2011

"We were given the raw-material free—grey, fawn, russet and apricot-coloured limestone—which we hacked, prized and blew out of the side of the Taygetus and roughly dressed with claw-chisels," he wrote in "The Aftermath of Travel."

So No More He'll Go A-Roving David Mason 2011

Beneath the heights of Taygetus stately Leda bare them, when the dark-clouded Son of Cronos had privily bent her to his will.

Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

When Leda had lain with the dark-clouded Son of Cronos, she bare them beneath the peak of the great hill Taygetus, — children who are delivers of men on earth and of swift-going ships when stormy gales rage over the ruthless sea.

Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

“Then,” answered he, “the offender would have to give the plaintiff a bull with a neck so long as that he might drink from the top of Taygetus of the Eurotas river below it.”

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

Lacedaemon, the greatest earthquake that was known in the memory of man; the earth opened into chasms, and the mountain Taygetus was so shaken, that some of the rocky points of it fell down, and except five houses, all the town of Sparta was shattered to pieces.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

Messenia and the Taygetus range in relation to Sparta: Appendix D Map, BY.

THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES Robert B. Strassler 2003