·Direct
The retreating Achaeans reach the Hellespont.
See evidence text
“the Achaeans were flying with loud cries before murderous Hector till they reached the ships and the Hellespont”
Location · Individual
Hellespont
Published entity metadata
Read-only identity and editorial metadata.
- Canonical name
- Hellespont
- Disambiguator
- None
- Kind
- Location
- Scope
- Individual
- Parent location
- None
- Editorial note
- No editorial note published.
Aliases
0
No aliases recorded.
Present entities
Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.
5
Present entities
Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.
·Direct
The Achaeans reached the Hellespont before dispersing to their ships.
See evidence text
“the Achaeans when they reached the Hellespont went back every man to his own ship”
·Disguised
Mercury arrived at the Hellespont in the likeness of a young man.
See evidence text
“Forthwith he bound on his glittering golden sandals with which he could fly like the wind over land and sea; he took the wand with which he seals men’s eyes in sleep, or wakes them just as he pleases, and flew holding it in his hand till he came to Troy and to the Hellespont. To look at, he was like a young man of noble birth in the hey-day of his youth and beauty with the down just coming upon his face”
·Direct
Mercury’s golden sandals remained with him through his arrival at the Hellespont.
See evidence text
“Forthwith he bound on his glittering golden sandals with which he could fly like the wind over land and sea; he took the wand with which he seals men’s eyes in sleep, or wakes them just as he pleases, and flew holding it in his hand till he came to Troy and to the Hellespont. To look at, he was like a young man of noble birth in the hey-day of his youth and beauty with the down just coming upon his face”
·Direct
Mercury’s wand remained in his hand through his arrival at the Hellespont.
See evidence text
“Forthwith he bound on his glittering golden sandals with which he could fly like the wind over land and sea; he took the wand with which he seals men’s eyes in sleep, or wakes them just as he pleases, and flew holding it in his hand till he came to Troy and to the Hellespont. To look at, he was like a young man of noble birth in the hey-day of his youth and beauty with the down just coming upon his face”
Claims
2
·Hypothetical
Hector proposes that a slain Achaean champion be buried beneath a mound beside the wide waters of the Hellespont.
See evidence text
“build him a mound by the wide waters of the Hellespont”
·Direct
Neptune uses the Hellespont’s mighty stream to level the swept-away wall site before spreading a great beach of sand over it.
See evidence text
“Neptune himself, trident in hand, surveyed the work and threw into the sea all the foundations of beams and stones which the Achaeans had laid with so much toil; he made all level by the mighty stream of the Hellespont, and then when he had swept the wall away he spread a great beach of sand over the place where it had been”
Additional evidence
Evidence records not already represented by a claim.
6
Additional evidence
Evidence records not already represented by a claim.
·Direct
“Hellespont”
·Hypothetical
“you will see my ships on the Hellespont”
·Reported
“their ships and to the Hellespont”
·Direct
“the waters of the broad Hellespont”
·Direct
“reached the Hellespont”
·Direct
“till he came to Troy and to the Hellespont”