Mount Taygetos
Mount Taygetos (Greek: Ταΰγετος), also known as "Profitis Ilias", or "Prophet Elias" is the highest peak of the mountain range located in Peloponnese, Greece. The name 'Taygetos' is one of oldest recorded, appearing in Homer's Odyssey. During Byzantine times and up until the 19th century, the mountain was also known as Pentadaktylos (Πενταδάκτυλος; Greek for 'five-fingered').
History
Mythology
According to tradition, the legendary twins Kastor and Polydeukes were born on Mount Taygetos.[1]
5th century BCE
Sometime during the mid 440s BCE, the baby Kassandra was sentenced to death after the acting Pythia Praxithea of the Sanctuary of Delphi foretold that Leonidas' younger grandchild would bring ruin to Sparta, as per the order of the Cult of Kosmos.[2][3] Alexios attempted to save his sister and inadvertently pushed both the priest and Kassandra off the cliff to their apparent deaths and was sentenced to death for murder. Nikolaos ended up causing him to fall from the top of Mount Taygetos.[4] However, both children survived and became fierce warriors.[5][6]
Years later in 422 BCE, Kassandra and Alexios, now the Cult's enforcer known as Deimos, fought with the latter dying at her older brother's hands.[7]
Gallery
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The sentence of Alexios on the mountain
Appearances
- Assassin's Creed: Odyssey (first appearance)
- Assassin's Creed: Odyssey novel
References
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Odyssey – Historical Locations / Lakonia: Altar of the Dioskouroi
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Odyssey – Sins of the Past
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Odyssey – The Unkindest Cut
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Odyssey – The Big Break
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Odyssey – So It Begins
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Odyssey – The Serpent's Lair
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Odyssey novel – Chapter 18