Ὠγυγία - Stephanos Ethnika

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island

Ὠγυγία, νῆσος ἀρχαία, ἔνθα Ὀδυσσεὺς ἐκ τοῦ ναυαγίου ἐξερρίφη. λέγεται καὶ ἡ Βοιωτία καὶ ἡ Θήβη ἀπὸ Ὠγύγου υἱοῦ Τερμέρας. τὰς ..... λέγονται καὶ οἱ Λύκιοι Ὠγύγιοι ἐξ αὐτοῦ Ὠγύγου. ἐλέγετο καὶ ἡ Ἀττικὴ πᾶσα Ὠγυγία ὡς Χάραξ φησὶν ἐν τοῖς χρονικοῖς.

Ogygia: an ancient island, where Odysseus was cast ashore from the shipwreck. Boiotia and Thebes too are said to be ‘Ogygia’, after Ogygos son of Termera. The.....; the Lykians too are called ‘Ogygioi’ from this same Ogygos. All Attike too used to be called ‘Ogygia’, as Charax says in his Chronika.

Text Details

Entry	#3
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 705.17
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-02-13
Word count	42
AI translation	gpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-5.5

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Χάραξ (Charax)	Χρονικά · FGrHist 103 F 30

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Ὠγυγία	Ogygia · place
Ὀδυσσεύς	Odysseus · person
Βοιωτία	Boeotia · place
Θήβη	Thebes · place
Ὠγύγος	Ogygus · person
Τερμέρας	Termeras · person
Λύκιος	Lycians · people
Ὠγύγιος	Ogygians · people
Ὠγύγος	Ogygus · person
Ἀττική	Attica · place
Ogygia, ancient island	place · island · unspecified; mythic location associated with Odysseus · explicit · unresolved
Boiotia (Ogygia)	place · district/region · Boiotia · explicit · unresolved
Thebes (Ogygia)	place · city · Boiotia · explicit · unresolved
Lykia (Ogygia)	place · district/region · Lycia · explicit · wikidata: Q18927 · candidate
Attica (Ogygia)	place · district/region · Attica · explicit · wikidata: Q122443 · candidate

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Eponym Person	Boeotia and Thebes are also said to be named after Ogygos, son of Termeras.
Eponym Person	The Lycians too are called Ogygian, after this same Ogygos.
Unclear Metalinguistic	Attica, too, was formerly called Ogygia.

Links

Place links	Ogygia
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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (AUTHOR NAME) + ἐν + Y (dative BOOK NAME) formula:c795eaabedf9a542	*Translate as "Χ, in his Y"* Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	X (nominative PROPER NOUN)... + ἀπό + Y (genitive ARTICLE + genitive ETYMON) formula:8856d9e4780f3c74	Translate as "X... from the form 'Y'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (nominative) + ὡς + Y (nominative HOMOMORPH) formula:1bb0974b95264dde	Translate as "'X' as in 'Y'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	X (SETTLEMENT) + Y (genitive REGION) formula:1040044f9f2bf616	Translate as "a X in Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	Χ (AUTHOR NAME) + ἐν + Y (dative NUMBER) + Z (genitive BOOK NAME) formula:c22408ee90fd1a1e	*Translate as "X, in book Y of his Z"* Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	ὡς + X (AUTHOR NAME) formula:d915b1886270056c	Translate as "as per X" Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	ὡς + X (AUTHOR NAME) + Y (dative NUMBER) + Z (genitive BOOK NAME) formula:f22af8012162d222	*Translate as 'as per X, in book Y of his Z'* Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	ὡς + X (nominative ETYMON) + Y (nominative DERIVED NOUN) formula:7163e35f4bd326d9	Translate as "(just) as 'Y' is from X" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	καλεῖται/ἐκαλεῖτο/κέκληται/ἐκλήθη (ἀπο...) gloss:ef7a95cd709173ed	is/used to be/is/was called/named after (+ ἀπο) Domain: LINGUISTIC/META-LINGUISTIC	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 2 occurrences

Herodian overlaps

Stephanos excerpt (left) is aligned with matched Herodian passages (right). Colors indicate corresponding overlap spans.

No significant Herodian overlaps were found for this headword in the latest run.