According to Homer, Ajax the Locrian was saved in a storm with the help of Poseidon on the rocks of Gyrae during his return home from Troy. He claimed that this occurred without the willing of the gods and Poseidon punished him for his boastful word by throwing his trident, which provoked a crack on the rock, where Ajax was saved, resulting his falling into the sea and his drowning (Od. 4.500 & 507). Gyrae might be located near the Caphereus cape in Euboea.
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Total results: 5 Kaphereus, 18 Caphereus
The modern Capo d' Oro; a rocky and dangerous promontory on the southeast coast of Euboea, where the Greek fleet is said to have been wrecked on its return from Troy
Caphareus or Caphereus (Kaphereus), a rocky and dangerous promontory,
forming the south-eastern extremity of Euboea, now called Kavo Doro or Xylofago;
it was known by the latter name in the middle ages. (Tzetzes, ad Lycophr. 384.)
It was off this promontory that the Grecian fleet was wrecked on its return from
Troy. (Eurip. Troad. 90, Helen. 1129; Herod. viii. 7; Strab. viii. p. 368; Pans.
ii. 23. § 1, iv. 36. § 6; Virg. Aen. xi. 260; Prop. iii. 5. 55; Ov. Met. xiv.
472, 481, Trist. i. 1. 83, v. 7. 36; Sil. Ital. xiv. 144; Leake, Northern Greece,
vol. ii. p. 423.)
A promontory in Euboea, false lights kindled by Nauplius on, Greeks shipwrecked at:
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