Source-groundedThe Odyssey
All locations

Location · Individual

cave of the sea-nymphs on Thrinacia

Published entity metadata

Read-only identity and editorial metadata.

Canonical name
cave of the sea-nymphs on Thrinacia
Disambiguator
None
Kind
Location
Scope
Individual
Parent location
Thrinacian island
Editorial note
No editorial note published.

Aliases

0

No aliases recorded.

Present entities

Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.

2
sea-nymphs of the Thrinacian caveCharacter1 observation
·Reported

The sea-nymphs hold their courts and dances in the Thrinacian cave.

See evidence text
“‘In the third watch of the night when the stars had shifted their places, Jove raised a great gale of wind that flew a hurricane so that land and sea were covered with thick clouds, and night sprang forth out of the heavens. When the child of morning, rosy-fingered Dawn, appeared, we brought the ship to land and drew her into a cave wherein the sea-nymphs hold their courts and dances, and I called the men together in council. ”
Ulysses’s own ship in the Cyclops expeditionItem1 observation
·Remembered

Ulysses’s surviving ship was drawn into the sea-nymphs’ cave.

See evidence text
“‘In the third watch of the night when the stars had shifted their places, Jove raised a great gale of wind that flew a hurricane so that land and sea were covered with thick clouds, and night sprang forth out of the heavens. When the child of morning, rosy-fingered Dawn, appeared, we brought the ship to land and drew her into a cave wherein the sea-nymphs hold their courts and dances, and I called the men together in council. ”

Claims

1
·Remembered

The crew shelters its ship in a cave where sea-nymphs hold courts and dances.

See evidence text
“drew her into a cave wherein the sea-nymphs hold their courts and dances”

Additional evidence

Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

1
·Remembered
“a cave wherein the sea-nymphs hold their courts and dances”

Passage preview

Book 12 · Passage 25

‘In the third watch of the night when the stars had shifted their places, Jove raised a great gale of wind that flew a hurricane so that land and sea were covered with thick clouds, and night sprang forth out of the heavens. When the child of morning, rosy-fingered Dawn, appeared, we brought the ship to land and drew her into a cave wherein the sea-nymphs hold their courts and dances, and I called the men together in council.