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THESPIES (Ancient city) VIOTIA
Information about Muses are found at Helicon Mountain
ANAFI (Island) KYKLADES
According to mythology, the island of Anafi was created by Apollo for the Argonauts to be saved as they were in danger because of tempest during their return from Colchis. The word Anafi derives from the greek verb, which means to appear, to come up.
ARGOS (Ancient city) ARGOLIS
The Megarians, sending to Delphi to inquire which was the most noble city in Greece, received the answer, Argos was the best soil, Thrace was supreme for its horses, Sparta for her women, Syracuse for men
We find Cieisthenes also engaged in war with Argos, his enmity to which is said by Herodotus to have been so great, that he prohibited the recitation at Sicyon of Homer's poems, because Argos was celebrated in them , and restored to the worship of Dionysus
CHIOS (Island) NORTH AEGEAN
EVIA (Island) GREECE
Homeric Hymns
FOLEGANDROS (Island) KYKLADES
From Ios towards the west one comes to Sicinos and Lagusa and Pholegandros, which last Aratus calls "Iron" Island, because of its ruggedness. (Strabo 11.5.1)
KARPATHOS (Island) DODEKANISSOS
Homeric Hymns
KOS (Ancient city) DODEKANISSOS
LYKORIA (Ancient city) PARNASSOS
They say that the oldest city was founded here by Parnassus, a son
of Cleodora, a nymph. Like the other heroes, as they are called, he had two fathers;
one they say was the god Poseidon, the human father being Cleopompus. After this
Parnassus were named, they say, both the mountain and also the Parnassian glen.
Augury from flying birds was, it is said, a discovery of Parnassus. Now this city,
so the story goes on, was flooded by the rains that fell in the time of Deucalion.
Such of the inhabitants as were able to escape the storm were led by the howls
of wolves to safety on the top of Parnassus, being led on their way by these beasts,
and on this account they called the city that they founded Lycoreia (Mountainwolf-city).
MALEAS (Cape) LACONIA
Corinth is called "wealthy" because of its commerce, since it is situated on the Isthmus and is master of two harbors, of which the one leads straight to Asia, and the other to Italy; and it makes easy the exchange of merchandise from both countries that are so far distant from each other. And just as in early times the Strait of Sicily was not easy to navigate, so also the high seas, and particularly the sea beyond Maleae, were not, on account of the contrary winds; and hence the proverb, "But when you double Maleae, forget your home" (Points to the dangers of the sea off the cape). At any rate, it was a welcome alternative, for the merchants both from Italy and from Asia, to avoid the voyage to Maleae and to land their cargoes here. And also the duties on what by land was exported from the Peloponnesus and what was imported to it fell to those who held the keys.
This extract is from: The Geography of Strabo (ed. H. L. Jones, 1924), Cambridge. Harvard University Press. Cited Apr 2003 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.
The following story is also told: it is said that Jason, when the Argo had been built at the foot of Pelion, put aboard besides a hecatomb a bronze tripod, and set out to sail around the Peloponnese, to go to Delphi. But when he was off Malea, a north wind caught and carried him away to Libya;
The Corcyraeans straightaway promised to send help and protection, declaring that they would not allow Hellas to perish, for if she should fall, the very next day would certainly see them also enslaved. They would accordingly have to help to the best of their ability. Now this answer seemed fair enough, but when the time came for sending help, their minds changed. They manned sixty ships and put out to sea, making for the coast of the Peloponnese. There, however, they anchored off Pylos and Taenarus in the Lacedaemonian territory, waiting like the others to see which way the war should incline. They had no hope that the Greeks would prevail, but thought that the Persian would win a great victory and be lord of all Hellas. Their course of action, therefore, had been planned with a view to being able to say to the Persian, "O king, we whose power is as great as any and who could have furnished as many ships as any state save Athens,--we, when the Greeks attempted to gain our aid in this war, would not resist you nor do anything displeasing to you." This plea, they hoped, would win them some advantage more than ordinary; and so, I believe, it would have been. They were, however, also ready with an excuse which they could make to the Greeks, and in the end they made it; when the Greeks blamed them for sending no help, they said that they had manned sixty triremes, but that they could not round Malea because of the Etesian winds. It was for this reason, they said, that they could not arrive at Salamis; it was not cowardliness which made them late for the sea-fight. With such a plea they put the Greeks off.
This extract is from: Herodotus. The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley, 1920), Cambridge. Harvard University Press. Cited Apr 2003 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.
SAMOS (Island) NORTH AEGEAN
SPARTI (Ancient city) LACONIA
The Megarians, sending to Delphi to inquire which was the most noble city in Greece, received the answer, Argos was the best soil, Thrace was supreme for its horses, Sparta for her women, Syracuse for men
She was the mother of Pausanias, who had commanded the Greeks during the victorious battle at Plataea. But he was soon to betray his home-town, Sparta, so he had to be punished. To avoid punishment, Pausanias went to the Temple of Athena Lady of the Bronze, where no-one could enter and harm him, for it was an asylum. The ephori of Sparta thought of something else, then: they decided to wall in the exit of the temple so that he would die of starvation. They actually did that and his mother, Anchithea, was the one who put the first stone. By doing that she proved that the welfare of her country was more important to her than the well-being of her own son.
Cheilonis, daughter of Leonidas II., king of Sparta, and wife to Cleombrotus II. When Leonidas, alarmed at the prosecution instituted against him by Lysander, took refuge in the temple of Athena Chalcioecus, Cheilonis left her husband, who was made king on the deposition of Leonidas, and, preferring to comfort her father in his adversity, accompanied him in his flight to Tegea. Afterwards, when Leonidas was restored, and Cleombrotus in his turn was driven to take refuge in the temple of Poseidon, Cheilonis joined him in his altered fortunes, saved his life by her entreaties from her father's vengeance, and, again refusing to share the splendour of a throne, went with him into banishment; "so that, had not Cleombrotus", says Plutarch, "been spoilt by vain ambition, his wife's love would have made him deem his exile a more blessed lot than the kingdom which he lost" (Plut. Agis, 11, 12, 16-18).
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Nov 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Chelidonis, a Spartan woman of great beauty and royal blood, daughter of Leotychides. She married Cleonymus, who was much older than herself, and to whom she proved unfaithful in consequence of a passion for Acrotatus, son of Areus I. It was partly on account of this injury that Cleonymus, offended also by his exclusion from the throne, invited Pyrrhus to attempt the conquest of Sparta in B. C. 272. Chelidonis, alarmed for the result, was prepared to put an end to her own life rather than fall into her husband's hands; but Pyrrhus was beaten off from the city, chiefly through the valour of Acrotatus. If we may trust the account of Plutarch, the Spartans generally of both sexes exhibited more sympathy with the lovers than indignation at their guilt,--a proof of the corruption of manners, which Phylarchus (ap. Athen. iv. p. 142, b.) ascribes principally to Acrotatus and his father. (Plut. Pyrrh. 26-28.)
Cynisca (Kuniska), daughter of Archidamus II. king of Sparta, so named after her grandfather
Zeuxidamus, who was also called Cyniscus (Herod. vi. 71). She was the first woman
who kept horses for the games, and the first who gained an Olympian victory (Paus.
iii. 8.1). Pausanias mentions an epigram by an unknown author in her honour, which
is perhaps the same as the inscription he speaks of (vi. 1.2) in his account of
her monument at Olympia. This was a group of sculpture representing Cynisca with
a chariot, charioteer, and horses -the work of Apellas. There were also figures
of her horses in brass in the temple of Olympian Zeus (Paus. v. 12.3), and at
Sparta she had near the gymnasium, called the Platanistas, an heroum (iii. 15.1).
CHAVRIATA (Village) KEFALLONIA
So the local inhabitants want it to say.
CHIOS (Island) NORTH AEGEAN
IOS (Island) KYKLADES
"The inhabitants of Ios point to Homer's tomb in the island (at Plakoto, in the North part of the island), and in another part to that of Clymene, who was, they say, the mother of Homer". (Παυσ. 10,24,2).
IREON (Ancient sanctuary) ARGOS - MYKINES
ITHAKI (Island) IONIAN ISLANDS
LEMNOS (LIMNOS) (Island) NORTH AEGEAN
MADOURI (Island) TILEVOIDES ISLANDS
MEGALOCHORI (Village) PLOMARI
NAFPLIO (Town) PELOPONNISOS
RHODES (Island) DODEKANISSOS
When Zeus and the immortals were dividing the earth among them, Rhodes was not yet visible in the expanse of the sea, but the island was hidden in the salty depths. Helios was absent, and no one marked out a share for him; in fact they left him without any allotment of land, although he was a holy god. And when Helios mentioned it, Zeus was about to order a new casting of lots, but Helios did not allow him. For he said that he himself saw in the gray sea, growing from the bottom, a rich, productive land for men, and a kindly one for flocks, thereafter be (Helios) own prize of honor. There grew from the waters of the sea an island, which is held by the birthgiving father of piercing rays, the ruler of fire-breathing horses. And there he once lay with Rhodes, and begat seven sons who inherited from him the wisest minds in the time of earlier men; and of these one begat Cameirus, and Ialysus the eldest, and Lindus.
This extract is from: Pindar. Odes (ed. Diane Arnson Svarlien, 1990). Cited Oct 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.
The rock rose is so plentiful and exuberant that Rhodes is often called the Island of Roses.
SAMOS (Island) NORTH AEGEAN
SAMOTHRAKI (Island) MAKEDONIA EAST & THRACE
This is how the ancient people called the island, which was a pan-hellenic cult centre like the island of Delos.
SKIATHOS (Island) NORTH SPORADES
TILOS (Island) DODEKANISSOS
Whoever had the good fortune to witness this sight that gave Tilos the name "island with the almond trees" never forgot it. In the place of this vision though came something eise, just as distinctive and magnificent: the islands pygmy elephants whose study wiIl show as we expect by faithfully reconstructing their skeletons showing how these animaIs were in that time. This spectacle, unique for being in Greece but aiso one of the most remarkable in the world and connected to that great paleontological discovery that brought to Iight these important finds, wiIl justly give a new name to Tilos, making now the island better known as the Elephant Island.
TINOS (Island) KYKLADES
Tinos, island of art and beauty, boasts many architectural and artistic
treasures, which can be seen at the important museum of folk - and religious art.
Nature endowed this island not only with plenty of materials such
as white and green marble, slate and granite, but also with a unique environment
which undeniably inspires the artistically inclined. It is the island's miracle
which makes artists want to sing its praises. Soulless marble comes alive under
their chisels. Stone and wood take shape according to the artist's inspiration.
Landscapes and nature are immortalised with brush and canvas.
It is nature that has played the first and most important role in
the formation of the artistic spirit and mood. Old traditions, that are still
very much alive today, have also contributed, giving us great sculptors and painters.
The most famous sculptor of antiquity, Phideas, seems to have had
strong links with the island. There are two traditional versions:
•The father of Phideas was from Tinos
•This great sculptor taught art to the Tiniots during his period of exile.
A lucky coincidence brought him to Tinos when his ship, on the way to Delos,
was wrecked in the region of Kinia.
The island's artists played a considerable role in the development
of Modern Greek Fine Art. Eminent Tiniot artists are the founders of modern Greek
sculpture and painting.
Characteristic examples of traditional Tiniot art: dovecots, Tiniot
houses, churches and clock-towers, wicker work.
Today, a great number of artists works on Tinos, as well as many families
of sculptors, who keep the old traditions of the island alive and teach them to
a younger generation; a task which is sacred to them.
This text is cited Apr 2003 from the University of Patras' XENIOS DIAS website URL below.
ZAKYNTHOS (Island) IONIAN ISLANDS
ARGOS (Ancient city) ARGOLIS
Now the gods were sitting with Zeus in council upon the golden floor while Hebe
went round pouring out nectar for them to drink, and as they pledged one another
in their cups of gold they looked down upon the town of Troy. The son of Kronos
then began to tease Hera, talking at her so as to provoke her. "Menelaos,"
said he, "has two good friends among the goddesses, Hera of Argos,
and Athena of Alalkomene...
..."My own three favorite cities," answered Hera, "are Argos, Sparta, and Mycenae.
Sack them whenever you may be displeased with them. I shall not defend them and
I shall not care. Even if I did, and tried to stay you, I should take nothing
by it, for you are much stronger than I am, but I will not have my own work wasted.
I too am a god and of the same race with yourself. I am Kronos' eldest daughter,
and am honorable not on this ground only, but also because I am your wife, and
you are king over the gods. Let it be a case, then, of give-and-take between us,
and the rest of the gods will follow our lead. (Homer Il. 4.1)
EGES (Ancient city) EVIA
So saying, he (Poseidon) lashed his fair-maned horses, and came to Aegae, where is his glorious palace.
ZAKYNTHOS (Island) IONIAN ISLANDS
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