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Ancient literary sources (3)

Perseus Encyclopedia

Naxos

NAXOS (Island) KYKLADES
Island in Aegean, off Paros, the Aloads in, Dionysus ferried to, Theseus and Ariadne in, Athenian colony in, images in, Naxians fight at Plataea, subdued by Pisistratus, its wealth and civil dissensions, and proposed annexation by the Persians, devastated by Datis, desertion of Naxian ships to the Greek fleet.

Plato

Amorgos stuff

AMORGOS (Island) KYKLADES
To Cratinus the brother of Timotheus, and my own companion, let us present a hoplite's corslet, one of the soft kind for foot-soldiers; and to the daughters of Cebes three tunics of seven cubits, not made of the costly Amorgos stuff but of the Sicilian linen.

Strabo

Amorgos, one of the Sporades, the home of Simonides, the iambic poet. (Strabo 10.5.12)

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