names have derived from it. Attic Greek sources hellenized Gadir as tà Gádeira (Ancient Greek: τὰ Γάδειρα), which is neuter plural. Herodotus, using Ionic...

Melqart since Herodotus, the "Pillars of Melqart" in the temple near Gades/Gádeira (modern Cádiz) have sometimes been considered to be the true Pillars of...

of southern Hispania, that was the site of the original Punic colony of Gadeira. Pliny's Natural History (4.36) records of the island of Gades: "On the...

wrinkled bald man begging for mercy. Philostratus claimed that the people of Gadeira set up altars to Geras and Thanatos. Geras as embodied in humans represented...

westward an island, Atlantis, lying out in the Ocean, in the direction of Gadeira (Cadiz), of an enormous magnitude, and relates that the ten kings having...

(Portuguese*), Cadix (French*), Cadiz (German*, Romanian*), Cádiz (Spanish*), Gádeira – Γάδειρα (Ancient Greek*), Gadir – גדר (Phoenician*), Gēdeira – Γήδειρα...

Spain: Cádiz, Ibiza in the Balearic Islands and Cartagena. Near Gades/Gádeira (modern Cádiz) was the westernmost temple of Tyrian Heracles, near the...

recedes. And this theory is confirmed by the course run by diseases in Gadeira, for at the time of high water the souls of the dying do not quit the bodies...

historian Strabo mentioned in his book Geographica that the Tyrians founded Gadeira, building a sanctuary to Melkart, known as Hercules to the Greeks, in the...

Corsica, in Spain at Tartessus and even beyond the pillars of Hercules at Gadeira (Cádiz). However, after Hiram's reign of 34 years, several Tyrian kings...

century BC, Strabo mentioned in his Geographica that the Tyrians founded Gadeira, erecting a sanctuary to Melkart, whom the Greeks and Romans identified...