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(to Pelion oros), more rarely Pelios (Pelios). A lofty range of mountains in Thessaly, in the district of Magnesia, situated between the lake Boebeis and the Pagasaean Gulf. Its sides were covered with wood, and on its summit was a temple of Zeus Actaeus. Mount Pelion was celebrated in mythology. Near its summit was the cave of the Centaur Chiron. The Giants, in their war with the gods, are said to have attempted to heap Ossa and Olympus on Pelion, or Pelion and Ossa on Olympus, in order to scale heaven. On Pelion the timber was felled with which the ship Argo was built.
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Pelium (Pelion), a lofty mountain in Thessaly, extending along the
coast of Magnesia. It rises to the south of Ossa, and the last falls of the two
mountains are connected by a low ridge. (Herod. vii. 129.) It forms a chain of
some extent, stretching from Mt. Ossa to the extremity of Magnesia, where it terminates
in the promontories of Sepias and Aeantium. It attains its greatest height above
Iolcos. According to Ovid it is lower than Ossa (Fast. iii. 441), which Dodwell
describes as about 5000 feet high. In form it has a broad and extended outline,
and is well contrasted with the steeply conical shape of Ossa. On its eastern
side Mt. Pelium rises almost precipitously from the sea; and its rocky and inhospitable
shore (akta alimenos Peliou, Eurip. Alc. 595) proved fatal to the fleet of Xerxes.
(Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iv. p. 384.) Mt. Pelium is still covered with venerable
forests, to which frequent allusion is made in the ancient poets. Homer constantly
gives it the epithet of einosiphullon (Il. ii. 744, &c.). Its northern summit
is clothed with oaks, and its eastern side abounds with chestnuts; besides which
there are forests of beeches, elms, and pines. (Dicaearch. Descript. Mont. Pel.
in Geogr. Graec. Min. p. 106, ed. Paris, 1855; Ov. Fast. v. 381; Valer. Flacc.
ii. 6.)
Mt. Pelium is celebrated in mythology. It plays an important part in the
war of the giants and the gods: since the giants are said to have piled Ossa upon
Pelium, in order to scale Olympus. It has been observed that this part of the
fable is well explained by the respective forms of Ossa and Pelium. As Pelium
is viewed from the south, two summits are seen at a considerable distance from
each other, - a concavity between them, but so slight as almost to give the effect
of a table-mountain, upon which fiction might readily suppose that another hill
of the conical form of Ossa should recline. (Holland, Travels, vol. ii. p. 96.)
Mt. Pelium was said to be the residence of the Centaurs, and more especially of
Cheiron, the instructor of Achilles, a legend to which the number of medicinal
plants found on the mountain perhaps gave rise. (Dicaearch. l. c.; Hom. Il. ii.
743, xvi. 143; Pind. Pyth. ii. 83, iii. 7; Virg. Georg. iii. 92.)
According to Dicaearchus (l. c.), the cave of Cheiron and a temple of Zeus
Actaeus occupied the summit of the mountain. The same writer relates that it was
the custom of the sons of the principal citizens of Demetrias, selected by the
priest, to ascend every year to this temple, clothed with thick skins, on account
of the cold. Between the two summits of Mt. Pelium there is a fine cavern, now
commonly known by the name of the cave of Achilles, and which accords with the
position of the cave of Cheiron, mentioned by Dicaearchus. The same writer likewise
speaks of two rivers of Mt. Pelium, called Crausindon and Brychon. One of them
is now named Zervokhia, and falls into the gulf between Nekhori and St. George.
(Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iv. p. 384, seq.) Lastly, Pelium was connected with
the tale of the Argonauts, since the timber of which their ship was built was
cut down in the forests of this mountain. The north-western summit of Mt. Pelium
is now named Plessidhi but the mountain is frequently called Zagora, from the;
town of this name immediately below the summit on the eastern side. (Leake, l.
c. Mezieres, Memoire sur Ie Pelion et l'Ossa, Paris, 1853.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited August 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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