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Mount Taygetos
Mount Taygetus

A mountain on the southern Peloponnesian Peninsula.

  The mountain and its precincts were sacred to several gods and goddesses including Zeus, Leto, Demeter and Dionysos (Dionysus). According to the Lakedaimonians (Lacedaemonians), Herakles (Heracles) was hidden on Mount Taygetos by the physician Asklepios (Asclepius) so he could be healed of a wound.

  Odysseus washed ashore on the Scheria, the island of the Phaiakians (Phaeacians). As he lay exhausted in the bushes, Nausikaa (Nausicaa), daughter of King Alkinoos (Alcinous), and her handmaidens were playing on the beach. The poet Homer complemented Nausikaa by saying she was as beautiful and nimble as the goddess Artemis as she roved the mountain paths of Taygetos and Erymanthos hunting deer and boar with the mountain nymphs.

Latitude North, Longitude East
36.9535, 22.3499

Taygetos

Taygetos

References:
Homer, Odyssey book 6, line 104
Pausanias, Description of Greece book 3.20.3–7
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