bay of the Hellespont

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Iliad 8.220-227

The ships of the Achaeans are beached along the shores of a large U-shaped bay that opens into the Hellespont. See Map 1 and Map 2 at HPC 157 and 158 respectively. Such a bay no lo ... Continue reading

Iliad 11.005–016

As indicated in the comment for I.08.220–227, the ships of the Achaeans are beached along the shores of a large U-shaped bay that opens into the Hellespont. See Map 1 and Map 2 at ... Continue reading

Iliad 11.806-808

... s are said to be located at the same place where the ship of Odysseus is beached, on the shores of the south end of the bay of the Hellespont. It is here, next to the beached ship of Odysseus, t ... Continue reading

Iliad 14.027-036

... arters, I.14.027–028. The headquarters are pictured as a massing of ships beached on the shores of the south end of the bay of the Hellespont, and this location has been reconstructed in the com ... Continue reading

Iliad 18.150

analysis of the Hellespont as the heroic essence of Achilles and, as indicated by this passage, of all the Achaeans who came to fight at TroyNow that Patroklos has been killed, the ... Continue reading