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Zacynthus

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Canonical name
Zacynthus
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None
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Location
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Individual
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Aliases

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wooded island of Zacynthus

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Claims

2
·Reported

Zacynthus is a woodland island whose chiefs join Penelope’s suitors.

See evidence text
“Same, and the woodland island of Zacynthus”
·Reported

Zacynthus is wooded and belongs to a close-set group with Dulichium and Same near Ithaca.

See evidence text
“a group of islands very near to one another—Dulichium, Same, and the wooded island of Zacynthus.”

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Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

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·Reported
“the woodland island of Zacynthus”
·Direct
“the wooded island of Zacynthus”
·Reported
“neighbouring islands, Dulichium, Same, Zacynthus”
·Direct
“Dulichium, Same, and Zacynthus”

Passage preview

Book 1 · Passage 17

‘Sir,’ said Telemachus, ‘as regards your question, so long as my father was here it was well with us and with the house, but the gods in their displeasure have willed it otherwise, and have hidden him away more closely than mortal man was ever yet hidden. I could have borne it better even though he were dead, if he had fallen with his men before Troy, or had died with friends around him when the days of his fighting were done; for then the Achaeans would have built a mound over his ashes, and I should myself have been heir to his renown; but now the storm-winds have spirited him away we know not whither; he is gone without leaving so much as a trace behind him, and I inherit nothing but dismay. Nor does the matter end simply with grief for the loss of my father; heaven has laid sorrows upon me of yet another kind; for the chiefs from all our islands, Dulichium, Same, and the woodland island of Zacynthus, as also all the principal men of Ithaca itself, are eating up my house under the pretext of paying their court to my mother, who will neither point blank say that she will not marry, {7} nor yet bring matters to an end; so they are making havoc of my estate, and before long will do so also with myself.’