Talk:Symplegades

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Wandering and Clashing Rocks[edit]

Both Clashing Rocks and Wandering Rocks redirect here but my recollection is that there were two sets of rocks - one at the Bosporous (I think it's confusing to use "the Hellespont" to describe the single point where the rocks were) and another on the return journey by Jason/Odysseus' voyage which served as an alternative route to sailing between Scylla and Charybdis. Does anyone know enough to sort all of this out? Timrollpickering 08:41, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

We are talking about an ancient story that dates back further than even Hesiod. I think you are right. The one at the Bosporous while sailing towards the Golden Fleece, and the route between Scylla and Charybids on the return voyage?Oilstone (talk) 16:19, 11 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Pronounciation[edit]

Can anyone offer a proper pronounciation for "Symplegades"? I've heard it as sim-PLUH-gades and sim-pluh-GAH-dees and sim-PLEG-uh-dees and Lord knows what else. What's correct? Mattymatt 06:53, 10 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Pillars of Pompey[edit]

They’re called the Pillars of Pompey because Magnus Pompey, or Gnaeus Pompeius, then Roman Emperor (80-49 B.C.), fled Caesar’s conquering of Rome (49 B.C.) by passing through the Symplegades with a small naval detachment, narrowly escaping capture.

Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, or Lucan (lived 39-65 A.D.), has a brief account of it in his epic poem Civil War. 2600:8800:700C:5400:B1C2:15DB:C872:AE61 (talk) 00:07, 29 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]