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Mount Chimaera ; Pliny 5.53. Chimaera as a geographical reference point. "Cape" is a gloss of the translator. Perseus's English version of Pliny differs in chapter numbering; these become 2.110, 5.28, 5.35 resp. Servius on Aeneid 6.288. "In fact, there is a Mount Chimaera..." Strabo 14.3.5,"a certain
The place where she lived was called Mount Chimaera. [3] An Irish-born British naval officer named Francis Beaufort surveyed the region in 1811 and concluded that Yanartaş was the fabled mountain, citing the ancient Roman writer Pliny, who had made the same claim.
This is the location of ancient Mount Chimaera. Through the cul-de-sac between Baydağlari and Tahtalidağlari, the Alakir Çay ('Alakir River'), the ancient Limyra, flows to the south trickling from the broad valley under superhighway D400 near downtown Kumluca across a barrier beach into the Mediterranean.
Chimera, Chimaera, or Chimaira (Greek for "she-goat") originally referred to: Chimera (mythology) , a fire-breathing monster of ancient Lycia said to combine parts from multiple animals Mount Chimaera , a fire-spewing region of Lycia or Cilicia typically considered the inspiration for the myth
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Pages in category "Chimaera" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
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The town of Himarë is believed to have been founded as Χίμαιρα, [7] (Chimaira [8] or Chimaera, [9] hence the name Himara) by the Chaonians as a trading outpost on the Chaonian shore. However, another theory according to the name suggest that comes from Greek χείμαρρος ( cheimarros ), meaning "torrent". [ 10 ]