Pillars of Hercules (Atlantic) 240 Gibraltar - Ηρακλέαι στήλαι

Ηρακλέαι στήλαι - Pillars of Hercules, the rock of Gibraltar and (maybe) Monte Hacho, Ceuta
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Works: 70
Latitude: 36.123000
Longitude: -5.346400
Confidence: High (20151210)

Greek name: Ηρακλέαι στήλαι
Place ID: 361000LPHe
Time period: ACHR
Region: Gibraltar
Country: Gibraltar
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Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillars_of_Hercules
Wikidata ID: Q152854
Trismegistos Geo: 61134

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Pindar, Olympian Odes§3.25  reaches the farthest point by his own native excellence; he touches the pillars of Heracles . Beyond that the wise cannot set foot; nor can the unskilled -1000
Pindar, Nemean Odes§3.1  manliness, it is not easy to cross the trackless sea beyond the pillars of Heracles, which that hero and god set up as famous witnesses to -1000
Pindar, Isthmian Odes§4.1  manly deeds they reached from home to touch the farthest limit, the pillars of Heracles - do not pursue excellence any farther than that! And they became -1000
Palaephatus, On Unbelievable Things§31  are an Ethiopian race, and life on the island Kerne outside the Pillars of Heracles, and they till the part of Libya by the Anno [2 hits] -1000
Diodorus Siculus, Library 1-7§3.55.1  when he visited the regions to the west and set up his Pillars in Libya, since he felt that it would ill accord with his -1000
Diodorus Siculus, Library 1-7§4.18.3  down to our own time. 4 But since we have mentioned the pillars of Heracles, we deem it to be appropriate to set forth the facts -1000
Diodorus Siculus, Library 1-7§5.16.1  It lies out in the open sea and is distant from the Pillars of Heracles a voyage of three days and as many nights, from Libya a -1000
Diodorus Siculus, Library 1-7§5.19.1  we have discussed what relates to the islands which lie within the Pillars of Heracles, we shall give an account of those which are in the -1000
Diodorus Siculus, Library 1-7§5.20.1  their expectations, they amassed great wealth and essayed to voyage beyond the Pillars of Heracles into the sea which men call the ocean. 2 And, first of [2 hits] -1000
Diodorus Siculus, Library 1-7§5.20.3  The Phoenicians, then, while exploring the coast outside the Pillars for the reasons we have stated and while sailing along the shore -1000
Orphic Argonautica§1237  and we came through the mouth of Tartessus, and we approached the Pillars of Heracles, and we completed our circuit around the sacred headland of King -1000
Malalas, Chronography Bks 1-7, 10-18§1.6  Nile river, the Chrysorua, and Africa as far as Mauretania and the Herakleotic Pillars and the great sea of Adria. The tribe of Iapheth the third -1000
Tzetzes, Ad Lycophronem§633  Dio Cocceianus says these are near the river Iberus, near the European Pillars of Hercules, which the Greeks and Romans commonly call Gymnesiae, the Iberians -1000
Tzetzes, Ad Lycophronem§643  are not far from the Iberians. Tartessos is an island near the Pillars of Hercules. Iberia is now called Spain. Iberia is also called Hispania [3 hits] -1000
Tzetzes, Ad Lycophronem§796  parts of the eight parts. 'Sardonikes': Sardos is an island near the Pillars of Hercules (633). The Carthaginians are colonists of this island, on which -1000
Ioannis Tzetzes, Histories or Chiliades§2.330  To Tartessus, a notable city of Iberia, He stood up the two Pillars, Alybe and Abinna. -1000
Herodotus, Histories§1.203  all that Sea which the Hellenes navigate, and the Sea beyond the Pillars, which is called Atlantis, and the Erythraean Sea are in fact -500
Herodotus, Histories§2.33  it divides Europe in the midst (now the Keltoi are outside the Pillars of Heracles and border upon the Kynesians, who dwell furthest towards the sunset of -500
Herodotus, Histories§4.8  island called by the Hellenes Erytheia, near Gadeira which is outside the Pillars of Heracles by the Ocean. — As to the Ocean, they say indeed that -500
Herodotus, Histories§4.42  sent Phoenicians with ships, bidding them sail and come back through the Pillars of Heracles to the Northern Sea and so to Egypt. The Phoenicians therefore set [2 hits] -500
Herodotus, Histories§4.43  obtaining a ship and sailors from the Egyptians, he sailed to the Pillars of Heracles ; and having sailed through them and turned the point of Libya -500
Herodotus, Histories§4.152  as the wind did not cease to blow, they passed through the Pillars of Heracles and came to Tartessos, guided by divine providence. Now this trading-place was -500
Herodotus, Histories§4.181  raised belt of sand, extending from Thebes of the Egyptians to the Pillars of Heracles . In this belt at intervals of about ten days' journey there -500
Herodotus, Histories§4.185  do so no more. However, the belt extends as far as the Pillars of Heracles and also in the parts outside them: and there is a mine -500
Herodotus, Histories§4.196  there is a place in Libya and men dwelling there, outside the Pillars of Heracles, to whom when they have come and have taken the merchandise -500
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