True Geographical Location

Arcadia - A mountainous region in central Peloponnese.
Argos - A town in eastern Peloponnese located on the Argive plain at the head of the Gulf of Argolis. It was once a Greek city-state.
Boetia - The area surrounding Thebes, settled by Cadmus.
Calydon - Tydeus’ homeland (from which he has been banished), located in the southern portion of Aetolia near the Gulf of Patras.
Dirce - A spring in eastern Greece named after the wife of King Lycus of Thebes.
Greece - A country located at the southern end of the Balkan Peninsula in southern Europe.
Inachus - Beside Mycenae, Adrastus’ kingdom, in the northeast of Peloponnese.
Ionia - An ancient region bordering the Aegean in western Asia Minor.
Latium - Also known as Lazio, it is a region extending across Rome, bordering on Tyrrhenian Sea.
Lemnos - The island from which Hypsipyle is abducted, located in the Aegean Sea, southeast of the Chalcidice Peninsula.
Mycenae - An ancient city in Peloponnese, southern Greece.
Nemea - Lycurgus’ kingdom, where the games to honor the infant Opheltes occur. It is located in northeastern Peloponnese, just west of Corinth.
Phrygia - An ancient country in the western portion of central Asia Minor.
Pieria - A region in ancient Macedonia, home to a natural spring and Muses, both believed to be a source of poetic inspiration.
Rome - An ancient kingdom capital on the border of the Tiber River located in the modern day city of Italy.
Sidon - A Mediterranean port in ancient Phoenicia.
Sparta - An ancient city in Peloponnese, southern Greece.
Thebes - Founded by Cadmus. Home to Oedipus, Eteocles and Polynices. Site of the final battle between Eteocles and Polynices. Ancient city eastern Greece in Boeotia, northwest of Athens.
Thessaly - A region located between the Pindus Mountains & the Aegean in eastern Greece.
Tyre - A Mediterranean port in ancient Phoenicia.

Asopos - One of the many rivers that dry up as a result of Bacchus’ drought during the Argive army’s trek to Thebes.
Asterion - One of the many rivers that dry up as a result of Bacchus’ drought during the Argive army’s trek to Thebes.
Charadrus - One of the many rivers that dry up as a result of Bacchus’ drought during the Argive army’s trek to Thebes.
Danube - A river that runs through central and southeastern Europe, eventually flowing into the Black Sea.
Erasinus - One of the many rivers that dry up as a result of Bacchus’ drought during the Argive army’s trek to Thebes.
Inachus - One of the many rivers that dry up as a result of Bacchus’ drought during the Argive army’s trek to Thebes.
Langia - the one river that still has water throughout the drought during the Argive trek to Thebes. Hypsipyle brings the Argives here to drink.
Lerna - One of the many rivers that dry up as a result of Bacchus’ drought during the Argive army’s trek to Thebes.
Lyrceus - One of the many rivers that dry up as a result of Bacchus’ drought during the Argive army’s trek to Thebes.
Rhine - A river that runs through Western Europe, flowing northwest into the North Sea.

Cithaeron - A mountain located in Greece on the northwest border of ancient Attica.
Oete - A mountain located in central Greece on the eastern spur of the Pindus Mountains.
Ossa - A mountain located northeast of the Pindus Mountains near the coast of the Aegean Sea.
Parnassus - A mountain located in central Greece north of the Gulf of Corinth.
Thessaly - A mountain located between the Pindus Mountains and the Aegean Sea.

Mythological Locations

Erebus - The upper level of hell.
Tartarus - The lower level of hell.

Acheron - The river of woe (in hell).
Cocytos - The river of lamentation (in hell). River across which the souls of the dead are ferried from Erebus to Tartarus.
Lethe - The river of forgetfulness (in hell).
Phlegethon - The river of fire (in hell).
Styx - The river of the unbreakable oath (in hell).

Elysium - Paradise.
Phocis - Area where Oedipus is said to have unknowingly murdered his own father, King Laius.
Taenaros (Malea’s vale) - True maritime location believed to be the mythical portal to hell. Various figures in the narrative travel through this gate.