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Ikaros Art Gallery
Wishing (Dionysus) to be ferried across from Icaria to Naxos he hired a pirate ship of Tyrrhenians. But when they had put him on board, they sailed past Naxos and made for Asia, intending to sell him. Howbeit, he turned the mast and oars into snakes, and filled the vessel with ivy and the sound of flutes. And the pirates went mad, and leaped into the sea, and were turned into dolphins. Thus men perceived that he was a god and honored him.
And having (Heracles) put in to the island of Doliche, he saw the body of Icarus washed ashore and buried it, and he called the island Icaria instead of Doliche.
SAMOS (Island) NORTH AEGEAN
A Samian clan.
HERAION (Ancient sanctuary) SAMOS
Some say that the sanctuary of Hera in Samos was established by those
who sailed in the Argo, and that these brought the image from Argos. But the Samians
themselves hold that the goddess was born in the island by the side of the river
Imbrasus under the withy that even in my time grew in the Heraeum. That this sanctuary
is very old might be inferred especially by considering the image; for it is the
work of an Aeginetan, Smilis, the son of Eucleides. This Smilis was a contemporary
of Daedalus, though of less repute. Daedalus belonged to the royal Athenian clan
called the Metionidae, and he was rather famous among all men not only for his
art but also for his wandering and his misfortunes. For he killed his sister's
son, and knowing the customs of his city he went into exile of his own accord
to Minos in Crete. There he made images for Minos and for the daughters of Minos,
as Homer sets forth in the Iliad (Hom. Il. 18.592) but being condemned by Minos
on some charge he was thrown into prison along with his son. He escaped from Crete
and came to Cocalus at Inycus, a city of Sicily. Thereby he became the cause of
war between Sicilians and Cretans, because when Minos demanded him back, Cocalus
refused to give him up. He was so much admired by the daughters of Cocalus for
his artistic skill that to please him these women actually plotted against Minos
to put him to death. It is plain that the renown of Daedalus spread over all Sicily
and even over the greater part of Italy. But as for Smilis, it is not clear that
he visited any places save Samos and Elis. But to these he did travel, and he
it was who made the image of Hera in Samos.
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ancient Argos
SAMOS (Island) NORTH AEGEAN
This Sibyl passed the greater part of her life in Samos, but she also visited Clarus in the territory of Colophon, Delos and Delphi. (Paus.10.12.5)
Epacteus or Epactius, (Epaktaios or Epaktios), that is, the god worshipped on the coast, was used as a surname of Poseidon in Samos (Hesych. s. v.), and of Apollo. (Orph. Argon. 1296; Apollon. Rhod. i. 404.)
Imbraia (Imbrasia), a surname of Artemis (Callim. Hymn. in Dian. 228), and of Hera, was derived front the river Imbrasus, in Samos, on which the goddess was believed to have been born. (Apollon. Rhod. i. 187; Paus. vii. 4.4)
Son of Apollo and Parthenope.
IKARIA (Island) NORTH AEGEAN
Son of Daedalus, native of the Deme Daedalidae of Attica, flies too high and falls into the Icarian Sea , wich named after him.
Icarus (Ikaros), a son of Daedalus. On his flight from Crete, his father attached to his body wings made of wax, and advised him not to fly too high; but Icarus, forgetting the advice of his father, flew so high that the sun melted the wings, and Icarus fell down into the sea, which was called after him, the Icarian. (Ov. Met. viii. 195; Hygin. Fab. 40.) His body, which was washed on shore, was said to have been buried by Heracles. (Paus. ix. 11.) The ancients explained the fable of the wings of Icarus, by understanding by it the invention of sails; and in fact some traditions stated that Daedalus and Icarus fled from Crete in a ship. Diodorus (iv. 77) relates that Icarus, while ascending into the air in the island of Icaria, fell down through his carelessness, and was drowned. Respecting the connection of Icarus with the early history of art, see Daedelis.
The first name of Icaria was Dolichi but through Greek mythology it became connected to Ikarus, the first man who succeeded to fly and commemorates his fall. According to myth Daedalus, a famous craftsman, was a prisoner of Minos, the King of Crete. In an attempt to escape, he made two sets of wings, one for himself and one for his son, Ikarus, and attached them with wax. Together they secretly flew away, heading towards Athens. Out over the sea, near Ikaria, Ikarus, became excited by the view, flew too close to the sun with the result that the wax melted and he plunged into the sea and drowned. Thereafter, the sea named after him, Ikario Pelagos and the island was named Ikaria.
This text is cited December 2004 from the Ikaria Provincial Government URL below, which contains image
SAMOS (Ancient city) SAMOS
Son of Ancaeus and Samia.
Daughter of Phoenix and Perimede.
SAMOS (Island) NORTH AEGEAN
The cities of the Ionians on the islands are Samos over against Mycale and Chios opposite Mimas. Asius, the son of Amphiptolemus, a Samian, says in his epic that there were born to Phoenix Astypalaea and Europa, whose mother was Perimede, the daughter of Oeneus; that Astypalaea had by Poseidon a son Ancaeus, who reigned over those called Leleges; that Ancaeus took to wife Samia, the daughter of the river Maeander, and begat Perilaus, Enudus, Samus, Alitherses and a daughter Parthenope; and that Parthenope had a son Lycomedes by Apollo.(Paus. 7.4.1)
Ancaeus: Son of Poseidon and Astypalaea, also one of the Argonauts, and the helmsman of the ship Argo after the death of Tiphys.
Ancaeus. A son of Poseidon and Astypalaea or Alta, king of the Leleges in Samos, and husband of Samia, the daughter of the river-god Maeander, by whom he became the father of Perilaus, Enodos, Samos, Alitherses, and Parthenope (Paus. vii. 4.2; Callim. Hymn. in Del. 50). This hero seems to have been confounded by some mythographers with Ancaeus, the son of Lycurgus; for, according to Hyginus (Fab. 14), Ancaeus, the son of Poseidon, was one of the Argonauts, but not the other; and Apollonius Rhodius (ii. 867, &c.) relates, that after the death of Tiphys, Ancaeus, the son of Poseidon, became the helmsman of the ship Argo, which is just what Apollodorus relates of Ancaeus, the son of Lycurgus. Lycophron (449), moreover, in speaking of the death of the son of Lycurgus by the Calydonian boar, mentions a proverb, which, according to the Scholiast on Apollonius (i. 185), originated with Ancaeus, the son of Poseidon. The story of the proverb runs thus: Ancaeus was fond of agricultural occupations, and planted many vines. A seer said to him that he would not live to taste the wine of his vineyard. When Ancaeus afterwards was on the point of putting a cup of wine, the growth of his own vineyard, to his mouth, he scorned the seer, who, however, answered, polla metaxu kulikos te kai cheileon akron, "There is many a slip between the cup and the lip". At the same instant a tumult arose, and Ancaeus was informed that a wild boar was near. He put down his cup, went out against the animal, and was killed by it. Hence this Greek phrase was used as a proverb, to indicate any unforeseen occurrence by which a man's plans might be thwarted. A third Ancaeus occurs in Il. xxiil. 635.
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Oct 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Son of Procles, king of Samos
Amphicrates seems to have been of the family of Procles, who led to Samos the Ionians expelled from Epidaurus by the Dorians
Amphicrates (Amphikrates), king of Samos in ancient times, in whose reign the Samians invaded Aegina. (Herod. iii. 59.)
Son of Pityreus, leader of Ionians. (Paus. 7.4.2)
Hippasus and his party, on the other hand, urged the citizens to defend themselves, and not to give up many advantages to the Dorians without striking a blow. The people, however, accepted the opposite policy, and so Hippasus and any others who wished fled to Samos. Great-grandson of this Hippasus was Pythagoras, the celebrated sage. For Pythagoras was the son of Mnesarchus, the son of Euphranor, the son of Hippasus.(Paus. 2.13.2)
Leogorus (King of Samos) threw a wall round Anaea on the mainland opposite Samos.
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