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Nerikos:
Djunta Doli. |
The site, according to Laertes, whom Odysseus has met tending
his vineyards and orchards corresponds with that of a vinograd
of impressive proportions at Djunta Doli–-
xxiv; 375:
Then wise Laertes answered him [Odysseus]: "I would, O father
Zeus, and Athene, and Apollo, that in such strength as when I
took Nericus, the well-built citadel on the shore of the mainland,
when I was lord of the Kephallenians, even in such strength I
had stood by thy side yesterday in our house with my armour about
my shoulders, and had beaten back the wooers."
Nerikos,
like Neriton, derives its name from an association
with the two stagnant bays which flank it.
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Phorkys:
Stonski Channel |
The long and narrow fjord on the southern side of NERITON (Peljesac)
which separates the peninsula from the mainland. It is where Odysseus
finally makes contact with reality after years of wanderings and
misfortunes, and where he first steps on his native land:
xiii; 96:
There is in the land of Ithaca a certain harbour of Phorcys, the
old man of the sea, and at its mouth two projecting headlands
sheer to seaward, but sloping down on the side toward the harbour.
These keep back the great waves raised by heavy winds without,
but within the benched ships lie unmoored when they have reached
the point of anchorage. At the head of the harbour is a long-leafed
olive tree, and near it a pleasant, shadowy cave sacred to the
nymphs that are called Naiads. Therein are mixing bowls and jars
of stone, and there too the bees store honey. And in the cave
are long looms of stone, at which the nymphs weave webs of purple
dye, a wonder to behold; and therein are also ever-flowing springs.
Two doors there are to the cave, one toward the North Wind, by
which men go down, but that toward the South Wind is sacred, nor
do men enter thereby; it is the way of the immortals.
Here they rowed in, knowing the place of old;and the ship ran
full half her length on the shore in her swift course, at such
pace was she driven by the arms of the rowers. Then they stepped
forth from the benched ship upon the land, and first they lifted
Odysseus out of the hollow ship, with the linen sheet and bright
rug as they were, and laid him down on the sand, still overpowered
by sleep. And they lifted out the goods which the lordly Phaeacians
had given him, as he set out for home, through the favour of great-hearted
Athene. These they set all together by the trunk of the olive
tree, out of the path, lest haply some before Odysseus awoke,
might come upon them and spoil them. Then they themselves returned
home again.
xiii, 344,
et pas.:
"But come [says Athene], I will shew thee the land of Ithaca,
that thou mayest be sure. This is the harbour of Phorkys, the
old man of the sea, and here at the head of the harbour is the
long-leafed olive tree, and near it is the pleasant, shadowy cave,
sacred to the nymphs that are called Naiads. This, thou must know,
is the vaulted cave in which thou wast wont to offer to the nymphs
many hecatombs that bring fulfilment; and yonder is Mount Neriton,
clothed with its forests."
...
So saying, the goddess entered the shadowy cave and searched out
its hiding places. And Odysseus brought all the treasure thither,
the gold and the stubborn bronze and the finely wrought rainment,
which the Phaeacians gave him. These things he carefully laid
away, and Pallas Athene, daughter of Zeus, who bears the aegis,
set a stone at the door. Then the two sat them down by the trunk
of the sacred olive tree, and devised death for the insolent wooers.
The name of Phorkys probably means 'seal' (whence Sp. foca), and
is cognate with porcus, overlooked by Korak, the farm of the swineherd
Eumaeus. This place has an associations with cloth, or, better
yet, with pelts, hence the troughs in the caves of the Naiads
a place of tanning from the salt pans...of Arethousa
-Peculiarity of the peninsula, counterpart to Phorkys
-The names of both Neriton, and Nericos are inspired on the murky
and swamplike aspect of these harbour-fjords which almsot meet...nasal
associations...Nereids...
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| Rheithryon:
Mali Ston Canal |
A long and tapering fjord, some 20 kms. deep by 2 kms. wide, formed
by the length of the Peljesac peninsula lying aslant of the mainland
coast:
i; 185:
"My [Mentes'] ship lies yonder beside the fields away from
the city, in the harbour of Rheithron, under woody Neion."
Though the name of Rheithron conveys the sense of 'brook,' or
'stream,'--which it is not--it seems apt enough to describe the
almost river-like topography of this harbour, or bay, or even
of such a narrow fjord.
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Telepylos:
PEDASOS (Oneum, Omis) |
x; 80 : (verify in text)
So for six days we sailed, night and day alike, and on the seventh
we came to the lofty citadel of Lamus, even to Telepylus of
the Laestrygonians, where herdsman calls to herdsman as he drives
in his flock, and the other answers as he drives his forth.
There a man who never slept could have earned a double wage,
one by herding cattle, and one by pasturing white sheep; for
the outgoings of the night and of the day are close together.
When we had come thither into the goodly harbour, about which
on both sides a sheer cliff runs continuously, and projecting
headlands opposite to one another stretch out at the mouth,
and the entrance is narrow, then all the rest steered their
curved ships in, and the ships were moored within the hollow
harbour close together; for therein no wave ever swelled, great
or small, but all about was a bright calm. But I alone moored
my black ship outside, there on the border of the land, making
the cable fast to the rock. Then I climbed to a rugged height,
a point of outlook, and there took my stand; from thence no
works of oxen or of men appeared; smoke alone we saw springing
up from the land. So then I sent forth some of my comrades to
go and learn who the men were, who here ate bread upon the earth—two
men I chose, and sent with them a third as a hereld. Now when
they had gone ashore, they went along a smooth road by which
waggons were wont to bring wood down to the city from the mountains.
And before the city they ment a maiden drawing water, the goodly
daughter of Laestrygonian Antiphates, who had come down to the
fair-flowing spring Artacia, from whence they were wont to bear
water to the town. So they came up to her and spoke to her,
and asked her who was king of this folk, and who they were of
whom he was lord. And she showed them forthwith the high-roofed
house of her father. Now when they had entered the glorious
house, they found there his wife, huge as the peak of a mountain,
and they were aghast at her. At once she called from the place
of assembly the glorious Antiphates, her husband, and he devised
for them woeful destruction. Straightway he seized one of my
comrades and made ready his meal, but the other two sprang up
and came in flight to the ships. Then raised a cry throughout
the city, and as they heard it the mighty Laestrygonians came
thronging from all sides, a host past counting, not like men
but like the Giants. They hurled at us from the cliffs with
rocks huge as a man could lift, and at once there rose throughtout
the ships a dreadful din, alike from men that were dying and
from ships that were being crushed. And spearing them like fishes
they bore them home, a loathly meal. Now while they were slaying
those within the deep harbour, I mean while drew my sharp sword
from beside my thigh, and cut therewith the cables of my dark-prowed
ship; and quickly calling to my comrades bade them fall to their
oars, that we might escape from out our evil plight. And they
all tossed the sea with their oar-blades in fear of death, and
joyfully seaward, away from the beetling cliffs, my ship sped
on; but all those other ships were lost together there.
The name of Telepylos, 'deep bay' aptly describes the
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