place
Tmolus
A mountain of Lydia, sacred to Bacchus, in the gold-rich country Jocasta urges Polynices to win instead of Thebes.
Reading notes
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §87.20 Tmolus
Mountain of Lydia famed for saffron (and wine); in Virgil's catalogue of regional products it yields its perfumes.
- Hercules on Oeta §368 A guest on Tmolus
Tmolus, a mountain of Lydia; the setting of Hercules' servitude to Omphale.
- Natural Questions §4.2.20 Tmolus
Mountain of Lydia above the Cayster.
- The Phoenician Women §603 Tmolus
A Lydian mountain sacred to Bacchus, in the gold-rich east that Jocasta urges Polynices to conquer instead of Thebes.