Hellespont

Examples

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• It's just passing through the Hellespont.

  Black Eagle (1988)

• Much more than a simple political boundary between two continents, the Hellespont tended to be regarded in antiquity from an early period as a kind of cosmic or ontological barrier.

  Academic text (2012)

• Trade very strong to the East through the Hellespont and to the Black Sea.

• I wore it when I swam the Hellespont.

  Beach Party (1963)

• "Dean thought he was Lord Byron swimming the Hellespont," Chet said.

  Fiction book (1997)

• Scholiasts would, with Xerxes, flog the Hellespont to submission.

  Fiction book (1991)

• Bland as it seems, however, the eastward journey of the Olympians from Greece to Ida likely held special significance for ancient viewers because it involved passage across the Hellespont.

  Academic text (2012)

• The entity referred to in this case is very likely the Hellespont, the famed conduit that links the Sea of Marmara and the Mediterranean, which represented the continental boundary between Europe and Asia in antiquity, much as it does today.

  Academic text (2012)

• In the process, he, like Aeneas following the war, as well as Hermes and the goddesses and the Achaeans before him, violated the cosmic boundary of the Hellespont separating East and West.

  Academic text (2012)

• In June 717, a massive Arab army crossed the Hellespont and marched on Constantinople.

Synonyms

D

Dardanelles

vsHellespont

3 8.3

A narrow sea passage between the Aegean Sea and the Sea of Marmara that separates European and Asian Turkey

has the same geographic meaning but uses a different historic name

C

Canakkale Bogazi

vsHellespont

9.9

A narrow sea connecting the Aegean Sea with the Sea of Marmara and separating European and Asian parts of Turkey

has identical geographic meaning but uses a different local name

Surface Forms

Etymology