Racecourse of Achilles

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The Racecourse of Achilles (Greek dromos Achilleios) is a narrow strip of land north-west of the Crimea and south of the mouth of the Dnieper, running nearly due west and cast.^[1][2][3] It is now divided into two parts called Kosa Tendra and Kosa Djarilgatch. According to ancient legends Achilles pursued Iphigenia to this peninsula and there practised for his races.

[edit] References

1. ^ Her. Hist. 4,55
2. ^ Plin. Nat. 4,26
3. ^ Strab. Geogr. 7,3.19

[edit] External links

• Henry Malden (1845). "On the Lower Course of the Dnieper; Being an Extract of a Letter from Prof. Henry Malden to the President of the Royal Geographical Society". Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London 15: 351—358.