Hellespont

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 longer exists, because of long-term silting from the river Scamander, whic ... Continue reading

... “speaking name” (nomen loquens) of Phríxos, a hero who escaped the dangers of the pontos ‘[sea-] crossing’ that is the Hellespont, as we read in Pindar Pythian 4.160–161. The wording ... Continue reading

... oasts that he will kill this fighter, still to be named, who will then be entombed inside a sēma ‘tomb’ overlooking the Hellespont, I.07.086, and thus Hector will have a kleos ‘glory’ ... Continue reading

... I.09.005: these winds come suddenly and violently from the direction of Thrace, blowing across the narrow strait of the Hellespont. See the comment on I.07.063–064. As the narrative o ... Continue reading

analysis of the connection of Achilles with the Hellespont As we will see in later comments, Achilles has a special relationship with the Hellespont. As we will see in later comments, Achilles has a s ... Continue reading

analysis of the epithet ikhthuoeis of pontos (here, of the Hellespont) as indicative of its dangersAt I.07.063–064, we saw that a young hero named Phríxos escaped the dangers of the póntos ‘[sea-] crossing’ that ... Continue reading

... nt 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 Homer the Preclassic (HPC) 1 ... Continue reading

... 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

... 4.027–028. 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

The Hellespont is a focal point for the heroic essence of Achilles: Homeric poetry presents his tomb as overlooking its dangerous waters, the setting for vio ... Continue reading

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 TroyThe Hellespont is pictured h ... Continue reading

... lles frequents in life: his klisiā is his shelter, which marks the place where his ship is beached on the shores of the Hellespont during the Trojan War, as we see at I.08.224, I.11.0 ... Continue reading

... the comment on I.18.587–589, can be visualized more precisely as a herdsman’s shelter that looms over the shores of the Hellespont, where the ship of Achilles is beached. This shelter ... Continue reading

The location of the tomb of Achilles on a promontory looking out over the Hellespont is consistent with the visualizations of this tomb in the Iliad. See the anchor comment at O.24.076–084.The location of the tomb of Achilles o ... Continue reading