Menelaus Itha
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Arabic لتميمي Menelaus Itha |
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| Coordinates | 32 ° 20 ' N , 23 ° 3' E | ||
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| Country | Libya | ||
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| ISO 3166-2 | LY-DR | ||
Menelaus Portus is an ancient city in the bay of al-Bumbah in the municipality of Darna on the coast of Libya . It is located in the ancient Marmarica landscape . Menelaus Portus Μενέλαος λιμάνι (port) near the modern Zawiyat Umm Rukbah, was founded by Menelaus according to a Greek myth , a reading of the Egyptian version of the Helena myth . Menelaus portus, ( Herodot IV 169) on the coast of Kyrenaica , where Menelaus is said to have landed on his flight from Egypt (Herodot II 119, 12). King Agesilaos II is said to have died there later . ( Cornelius Nepos Ages. 8).
Mentions
2458. Ménélaüs, Ménélas (crique sableuse) ( Strabon , Géographie, 17, 3; Cornelius Nepos , Grands Hommes, Agésilas, 8; Plutarch , Agésilas, 47; Herodot , Histoires, 4, 169; Periplus , 35) Ambroise Tardieu (cartographer ) (1788–1841), engraver and cartographer situated it in Bombah; the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World refers to it as the Site of Menelaus
Individual evidence
- ↑ August Friedrich Pauly , Georg Wissowa , Paulys Real-Encyclopädie der classischen Antiquity Science: new arrangement, Volume 15, JB Metzler, 1931, p. 108; en: Leonhard Schmitz , A Manual of Ancient Geography: With a Map Showing the Retreat of the 10,000 Greeks under Xenophon p. 384
- ↑ satellite view ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ ancient ports antiques ( Memento of the original from October 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.9 MB) Irad Malkin, Myth and Territory in the Spartan Mediterranean , p. 51
