place
Syene
also: Syenites
A town in upper Egypt (modern Aswan); home of the warrior Phorbas.
Reading notes
- Letters from the Black Sea §1.5 hot Syene
Syene (Aswan) at Egypt's southern edge; with Taprobane (Sri Lanka), a figure for the ends of the earth where fame would do a poet no good.
- Metamorphoses §5.99 Syene
A town at the southern edge of Egypt (modern Aswan), home of the warrior Phorbas.