Listed 13 sub titles with search on: Various locations for wider area of: "ANCIENT GREEK WORLD Ancient country EUROPE" .
ADES (Mythical lands) ANCIENT GREEK WORLD
Battle of Herakles with Geryon at the river.
Peninsula of Acherusia, where, we are told, Heracles led up Cerberus from Hades.
River in Thesprotis and hell
River of hell, Cerberus at the gates
And it is commonly reported that the descent to Hades in the country of the Hermionians is a short cut; and this is why they do not put passage money in the mouths of their dead.
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So Orpheus then received his wife; and Pluto told him he might now ascend from these Avernian vales up to the light, with his Eurydice; but, if he turned his eyes to look at her, the gift of her delivery would be lost.
(Perseus Project - Ovidius, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More) 10.10)
Areiopagus, where a similar descent to Hades was the physical origin.
SALMYDISSOS (Ancient city) THRACE AT PONTOS
Thynias (Mela ii. 2. § 5; Plin. iv. 11. s. 18; Thunias, Strabo vii.
p. 319, xii. p. 541: Scymn. 727; Arrian. Per. P. Eux. p 24; Anon. Per. P. Eux.
p. 15; Ptol. iii. 11. § 4; Steph. B. s. v.), a promontory on the Thracian coast
of the Euxine, N. of Salmydessus, which was probably at one time in the territories
of the Thyni, although Strabo (vii. p. 319) speaks of the district as belonging
to the people of Apollonia. Pliny (l. c.) mentions a town of the same name, which
in some maps is placed a little to the south of the promontory, on the site of
the modern Inada or Iniada; but which, according to Dapper (de l'Arohip. p. 515),
is still called Thinno.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited September 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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