place
Isthmus of Corinth
the Isthmus
The narrow neck of land between two seas on which Corinth sits; Medea is ordered to quit it.
Reading notes
- Agamemnon §578 the Isthmus
The Isthmus of Corinth, the narrow neck that keeps the Ionian and Aegean (Phrixean) seas apart.
- Hercules on Oeta §1 the Isthmus
The Isthmus of Corinth, which Hercules offers to cut so ships may cross by a new route.
- Medea §40 the Isthmus
The Isthmus of Corinth, the narrow land-bridge between two seas on which the city stands.
- Oedipus §274 Sisyphus of the two seas
Corinth, city of Sisyphus, set on the Isthmus between two seas.
- Thyestes §101 Isthmus
The narrow neck of land at Corinth dividing two seas; in the blight it hears the distant waves fall silent.