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Aegean Sea

AEGEAN SEA (Open sea (pelagos)) GREECE

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Icarian Sea

IKARIAN SEA (Open sea (pelagos)) GREECE

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Myrtoan Sea

MYRTOO SEA (Open sea (pelagos)) GREECE

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Myrtoan Sea

And some do not shrink even from applying the name Hellespont to the whole of the high sea as far as the Myrtoan Sea, since, as Pindar says in his hymns, those who were sailing with Heracles from Troy through Helle's maidenly strait, on touching the Myrtoan Sea, ran back again to Cos, because Zephyrus blew contrary to their course.

This extract is from: The Geography of Strabo (ed. H. L. Jones, 1924), Cambridge. Harvard University Press. Cited Sep 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.

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