place
Athos
The lofty promontory of Chalcidice in Macedonia, proverbial for its great size.
Reading notes
- The Art of Love §2.24 Athos
The great promontory of Chalcidice, proverbial for its size; here counting its hares.
- Ibis §7 Athos
The high mountain promontory of the Chalcidice, proverbial for snow and storm.
- Cosmetics for the Female Face §3 Athos
Mount Athos, the steep promontory of northern Greece; proverbial for remoteness — even there, Ovid jokes, women would still dress their hair.
- Metamorphoses §11.341 Athos
A towering mountain promontory in the northern Aegean; with Pindus, the byword for a mass too vast to move, to which the great wave is likened.