place
Tyre
The great Phoenician port; mother-city of Carthage and of colonies across the Mediterranean.
Reading notes
- Consolation to His Mother Helvia §7 Tyrians
Phoenician Tyre; its people (Tyrians) settled North Africa, an instance of long-range colonization.
- Hercules on Oeta §599 Tyrian purple
Tyre in Phoenicia, source of the costliest purple dye.
- Natural Questions §1.3.12 Tyrian purple
The costly dye of Tyre, extracted from the murex shellfish; its shade varied with steeping and repeated dipping, a figure for the rainbow's graded colors.
- Phaedra §316 Tyrian
Of Tyre, source of the costly purple dye of the cloak Hercules wore for Omphale.