Hellespont

Hellespont — Hellespont (Thrace), Pleiades 501434

Hellespont Hellespont

• grave of Memnon at: Paus. 10.31.6
• Pausanias at: Paus. 3.4.9
• sea-fights at: Paus. 1.29.13
• its length and breadth: Hdt. 4.85
• despots of places by it with Darius' Scythian expedition: Hdt. 4.137
• Darius' passage of it in his return: Hdt. 5.11
• Hellespontian towns subdued by Ionian rebels: Hdt. 5.103
• reconquered by Darius: Hdt. 5.107, Hdt. 6.33
• Hellespont scourged by Xerxes for the destruction of his bridge: Hdt. 7.35
• bridged again: Hdt. 7.36
• Xerxes' passage: Hdt. 7.55
• Hellespontians in his fleet: Hdt. 7.95
• Persian governors of towns there: Hdt. 7.106
• Greek decision not to sail to the Hellespont after Salamis: Hdt. 8.108
• bridges there found broken: Hdt. 9.114
• named after Helle: Apollod. 1.9.1
• Herakles drives some of the kine of Geryon to the: Apollod. 2.5.10