Mimas

• A mountain range in Ionia, opposite the Isle of Chios, a branch of Mount Tmolus, still called Mimas, Plin. 5, 29, 31, § 118; Ov. M. 2, 222; Luc. 7, 451; Cic. Att. 16, 13, a, 2; id. Fragm. p. 580 Orell.; Amm.31, 14, 8.—
• II A giant: Typhoeus et validus Mimas, Hor. C. 3, 4, 53; Sil. 4, 278.—
• III A Trojan: Mimanta, Verg. A. 10, 702.

MIMAS(ὁ Μίμας), a mountain range in Ionia, traversing the peninsula of Erythrae from south to north. It still bears its ancient name, under which it is mentioned in the Odyssey (3.172.) It is, properly speaking, only a branch of Mount Tmolus, and was celebrated in ancient times for its abundance of wood and game (Strab. xiv. pp. 613, 645.) The neck at the south-western extremity of the peninsula formed by Mount Mimas, a little to the north of Teos, is only about 7 Roman miles broad, and Alexander the Great intended to cut a canal through the isthmus, so as to connect the Caystrian and Hermaean bays; but it was one of the few undertakings in which he did not succeed. (Plin. Nat. 5.31; Paus. 2.1.5; comp. 7.4.1; Thucyd. 8.34; Ov. Met. 2.222; Ammian. 31.42; Callim. Hymn. in Del. 157; Sil. Ital..)

Mount Mimas forms three promontories in the peninsula; in the south Coryceum ( Korakaor Kurko), in the west Argennum ( Cape Blanco), and in the north Melaena ( Kara Burnu). Chandler ( Travels, p. 213) describes the shores of Mount Mimas as covered with pines and shrubs, and garnished with flowers. He passed many small pleasant spots, well watered, and green with corn or with myrtles and shrubs. The summit of the mountain commands a magnificent view, extending over the bays of Smyrna, Clazomenae, and Erythrae, the islands of Samos, Chios, and several others.

(Μίμας). One of the giants who warred against the gods and was slain by a flash of lightning. See Gigantes; Prochyté.

(Μίμας). A promontory and mountain in Ionia, opposite the island of Chios.

• killed by Hephaestus: Apollod. 1.6.1

• Paus. 2.1.5, Paus. 7.4.1, Paus. 10.9.9
• some of the Greeks sail to, after the sack of Ilium: Apollod. E.6.15
• Alexander attempts to dig through it: Paus. 2.1.5