Ister

Since the Greek poet Hesiod in the eighth century B.C. the Mediterranean world had known that the distant Danube—which the Greeks called by the Thracian name Ister—was one of the great rivers of the world.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

Since the Greek poet Hesiod in the eighth century B.C. the Mediterranean world had known that the distant Danube—which the Greeks called by the Thracian name Ister—was one of the great rivers of the world.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

Since the Greek poet Hesiod in the eighth century B.C. the Mediterranean world had known that the distant Danube—which the Greeks called by the Thracian name Ister—was one of the great rivers of the world.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

The Ister, which is the greatest of all the rivers which we know, flows always with equal volume in summer and winter alike.

The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

On the west are the Germans and the river Vistula; on the arctic side, namely the north, it is surrounded by Ocean; on the south by Persis, Albania, Hiberia, Pontus and the farthest channel of the Ister, which is called the Danube all the way from mouth to source.

The Origin and Deeds of the Goths Jordanes

The Ister, which is the greatest of all the rivers which we know, flows always with equal volume in summer and winter alike.

The history of Herodotus — Volume 1 480? BC-420? BC Herodotus 1883

For as to the land about the Euxine Sea, which extends from Byzantium to the Lake, it would be impossible to tell everything with precision, since the barbarians beyond the Ister River, which they also call the Danube, make the shore of that sea quite impossible for the Romans to traverse -- except, indeed, that from Byzantium to the mouth of the Ister is a journey of twenty-two days, which should be added to the measure of Europe by one making the computation.

History of the Wars, Books III and IV (of 8) The Vandalic War Procopius

I was reading Babette Babich's paper on The Ister, the documentary, for next month's Heidegger Circle, and at the end there's Hölderlin's poem, with a translation "attuned to word order".

Archive 2009-04-01 enowning 2009

I was reading Babette Babich's paper on The Ister, the documentary, for next month's Heidegger Circle, and at the end there's Hölderlin's poem, with a translation "attuned to word order".

enowning enowning 2009

Argonauts sail up the Ister, by a branch of which they make their way into the Adriatic, where they find their progress barred by the Colchians, who had come by a shorter route (294 – 337). —

The Argonautica 2008