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ΒΟΣΠΟΡΟΣ (Θαλάσσιο στενό) ΤΟΥΡΚΙΑ
Bosporus, α name applied to a strait of the sea. There were two straits
known in antiquity by this appellation, namely, the Thracian and the Cimmerian
Bosporus; the former now known by the name of the Straits or Channel of Constantinople,
the latter the Straits of Caffa or Theodosia, or, according to a later denomination,
the Straits of Yenikale. It connects the Palus Maeotis with the Euxine. Various
reasons have been assigned for the name. The best is that which makes the appellation
refer to the early passage of agricultural knowledge from East to West (bous,
an ox, and poros, a passage). Nymphius tells us, on the authority of Accarion,
that the Phrygians, desiring to pass the Thracian strait, built a vessel, on whose
prow was the figure of an ox, calling the strait over which it carried them boos
poros, Bosporus, or the ox's passage. Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Valerius Flaccus
and others of the ancient writers Map of the Propontis and the Thracian Bosporus.
refer the name to the history of Io, who, when transformed into a cow (bous) by
Here, swam across this strait to avoid her tormentor. Arrian says that the Phrygians
were directed by an oracle to follow the route which an ox would point out to
them, and that on one being roused by them for this purpose, it swam across the
strait. The strait of the Thracian Bosporus properly extended from the Cyanean
Rocks to the harbour of Byzantium or Constantinople. It is said to be sixteen
miles in length, including the windings of its course, and its ordinary breadth
about one and a half miles. In several places, however, it is very narrow; and
the ancients relate that a person might hear birds sing on the opposite side,
and that two persons might converse across it. Here Darius is said to have crossed
on his expedition against the Scythians.
This text is cited Oct 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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