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Ionian Sea
The sea between Italy and Greece, its countless waves a simile for the raised dead.
Reading notes
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §14.89.20 Ionian
The Ionian Sea between southern Italy and Greece; named in the catalogue of waters engrossed by private greed.
- Oedipus §504 Ocean
Ocean, the world-encircling sea that rings the globe.
- Oedipus §569 Ionian sea
The sea west of Greece, its waves a simile for the throng of the raised dead.