What is "joppa"

Usage examples of "joppa".

My scruffy boatman, next morning when we landfell Joppa, pointed out the cliff where fair Andromeda had been snacked for Cetus till mighty Perseus et cetera.

Ammon I could be purely jealous of, despite my old grievance concerning his advice to Cassiopeia, for the images I'd seen of him in Joppa showed a fine-fettled fellow with handsome ram's-horns coiling from his swarthy curls.

But I proposed it, and Andromeda said sure right off: park the kids in Argos, sail down to Joppa for a visit with her folks.

For one thing, I thought Seriphean Dictys would be pleased to see it again, so I'd kept in it all my souvenirs: a piece of the net he'd fished us ashore with, the crescent scabbard of Hermes's sickle, couple of rocks from giant Atlas after I'd stoned him, fern-corals from Joppa (I'd laid Medusa's head on seaweed while I skewered Cetus), Andromeda's leg-irons, the Larissan discus, and the letters.

The seaman mistook my smile for smirk and reported what he said was coastwise knowledge: that that same Andromeda was currently whoring it in Joppa with a new boyfriend.

Andromeda stormed at me it must be Joppa without sidetrips, or she'd go it unburdened of her had-been hero.

I replied, not unfairly I think, that even the bards who sang our story were wont to call her both the cause of my labor and its reward -- which was but putting prettily (I went on less fairly) that had I by-passed Joppa altogether I'd've spared myself two hard battles (with Cetus and with Phineus's gatecrashers), plus the sustained one of our recent years together, and found me a more congenial princess somewhere else, whereas she'd've been fishfood.

Sure enough, comes word from the oracle: Nereids in a pout, somebody's got to pay or it's Cetus forever -- and you know, Perseus, place like Joppa, once your fishery goes under, your whole economy goes.

By means he'd been unable to discover, he explained (certainly not his own intelligence department, always last to know anything, or the Royal Ethiopian Post, which moved at sea-snail pace), reports of my arrival had preceded me to Joppa, caused general alarm in the palace, and brought on, he could only assume, his fearful trance.

Just as Perseus, even as he spoke, was completing the exile trip from Seriphos through Egypt and Joppa, killing a Gorgon and picking up a bride before returning to rule Mycenae, so I, in my tutor's opinion, must beat it out of Corinth for the present.

He skulks about the wharves of Joppa, and seeks a ship that’s bound for Tarshish.

Because Joppa, the modern Jaffa, shipmates, is on the most easterly coast of the Mediterranean, the Syrian.

When the Romans took Joppa, the same skeleton was carried to Italy in triumph.

What seems most singular and suggestively important in this story, is this: it was from Joppa that Jonah set sail.

Besides, it has been divined by other continental commentators, that when Jonah was thrown overboard from the Joppa ship, he straightway effected his escape to another vessel near by, some vessel with a whale for a figure-head.