Hesiod locates Echidna's cave in Arima ("εἰν Ἀρίμοισιν"). Presumably this is the same place where, in Homer's "Iliad", Zeus lashes, with his thunderbolts, the land about Echidna's mate Typhon, described as the land of the Arimoi ("εἰν Ἀρίμοις"), "where men say is the couch of Typhoeus", Typhoeus being another name for Typhon. But neither Homer nor Hesiod say anything more about where this Arima might be. The question of whether an historical place was meant, and its possible location, has been since ancient times the subject of speculation and debate.