2) Sestos. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Thracian shore of the Hellespont (now Dardanelles) opposite Abydos (in present-day Turkey). It was the scene of the story of Hero and Leander. It was there that Xerxes...

3) Lampsacus. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Greek city of NW Asia Minor, on the Hellespont (now Dardanelles) opposite Callipolis (now Gallipoli). It was colonized in the 7th cent. B.C. by Greeks from Phocaea....

4) Aegospotamos. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Thrace flowing into the Hellespont. At its mouth in 405 B.C. occurred the culminating battle of the Peloponnesian War. Lysander and his Spartan fleet had come north...

5) Hero, in Greek mythology. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Greek mythology, in Greek mythology, priestess of Aphrodite in Sestos. Her lover, Leander, swam the Hellespont nightly from Abydos to see her. During a storm the...

6) Abydos, ancient town of Phrygia. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Asia Minor, on the Asian side of the Hellespont opposite Sestos, in present-day Turkey. It was originally a Milesian colony. Near there Xerxes built his bridge of...

7) Dardanelles. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Aegean Sea with the Sea of Marmara and separating the Gallipoli peninsula of European Turkey from Asian Turkey. It was called the Hellespont in ancient times and...

8) Troas. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Asia Minor, in present NW Turkey. Traversed by Mt. Ida (Kaz Daii) and strategically located on the Hellespont (Dardanelles), it was involved in various struggles...

9) Golden Fleece. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Golden Fleece, in Greek mythology, the magic fleece of the winged ram that saved Phrixus and Helle, the children of Nephele and Athamas, from the jealousy of Ino,...

10) Xerxes I. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...His name in Old Persian is Khshayarsha, in the Bible Ahasuerus. He was the son of Darius I and Atossa, daughter of Cyrus the Great. After bringing (484 BC.) Egypt...