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Telepylos

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17: 98:, he sends three scouts to explore the island. They come across the king, a giant cannibal, who then eats one of the men, causing the other scouts to run away. Most of Odysseus' men are killed in the incident, but his boat is moored outside the Laestrygonians' harbour. He is able to sail away, without the bombardment of rocks received by the rest of the fleet who did moor within the harbour. Only forty-five men escape. 412: 125:
The harbour, about which on both sides a sheer cliff runs continuously, and projecting headlands opposite to one another stretch out at the mouth, and the entrance is narrow, ..., and the ships were moored within the hollow harbour, for therein no wave ever swelled, great or small, but all about was
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In Greek mythology, the name Telepylos is mentioned in the Odyssey (k 82, ps 318) the city or country of the Laistrygons ("laistrygonii"). The name, from tele- = far and the door, perhaps according to some authors has the meaning of "eurypylos, megalopylos", or "macropylos" (Eustathius: "at a
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have recently been admitted, and the interest in the description -let's think of one of the well-known ports of the
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distance from each other, but next to the doors or at the length " ). In the view of the later ancient Greeks (e.g.
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as the most probable location, for its unique landscape that corresponds to the verses.
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341: 137: 41: 28: 376: 148:( today Mola di Gaeta). The significant Laestrygonian associations with the 411: 72:, meaning "far-off port" or "big-gated") was the mythological city of the 161: 109:. Iman Jacob Wilkens makes a less likely identification: the harbour of 386: 315: 249: 169: 86: 381: 145: 141: 110: 160:-, allows us to believe that is a first and almost perfect port of 144:, while the Romans believed it to be located in mainland Italy, in 356: 244: 15: 114: 288: 427: 191:"Transactions of the American Philological Association" 20:
The Laestrygonians throw rocks at Odysseus and his men.
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36°32′32″N 22°23′20″E / 36.5422487°N 22.3888904°E / 36.5422487; 22.3888904
Ancient Greek
Laestrygonians
Odyssey
Lamos
Mezapo
Mani Peninsula
Havana
Cuba
Atlantic Ocean
Thucydides
Sicily
Formia
Talayotic culture
Balearic Islands
Mediterranean
Mahón
Jasen Boko
Omiš
"Transactions of the American Philological Association"
"The Quarterly Review"
The Triumph of the Sea Gods: The War against the Goddess Hidden in Homer's Tales
ISBN
9781594777523
Homer
Odyssey
ISBN
978-953-319-460-8
v

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