Achilles Racecourse

The Tendra and Dscharylhatsch Islands were referred to as the racetrack of Achilles ( Greek ὁ Ἀχιλλήιος δρόμος [ho Achilléios drómos]) in Herodotus' time .

literature

• Wilhelm Tomaschek : Ἀχιλλέως δρόμος . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, Col. 221.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Herodotus, Histories 4,55 and 4,76.
2. ↑ Herodotus : Histories . German complete edition, translated by A. Horneffer, re-edited and explained by HW Haussig , with an introduction by Walter F. Otto , Kröner, Stuttgart 1971, p. 691.