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Samos

Samos was an island off the western coast of Asia Minor between Ephesus and Miletus. It was named after Samia, daughter of the river-god Maeander. Samia married one of the Argonauts named Ancaeüs, a Lelegian king of Samos.

Ancaeüs became the Argo's second helmsman after Tiphys drowned one night. It was prophesied that he would be killed by a wild boar before he could taste a single drop of his wine. After returning home from his adventure with the Argonauts, as his lips touched his cup of wine, he heard a wild boar enter his vineyard. He left his wine, untouched, and took up his spear to confront the boar. Ancaeüs was killed by the boar and the prophecy was fulfilled.

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Samos, Σάμος.

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Ancaeüs.

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Samothrace

Samothrace

Samothrace was one of the islands in the Thracian Sea (northern Aegean), north of Lemnos and Imbros. The island was inhabited by the Thracians and Samian colonists. The Pleiad Electra gave birth to Dardanus and Iasion. Zeus killed his own son Iasi...

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Psamathe

Psamathe

Sea goddess. Psamathe was the daughter of Nereus and Doris. She was the sister of the other Nereïds. Psamathe was usually seen around her sister Thetis , because they were both linked to Aeacus and his son Peleus. Aeacus was her lover, and she bec...

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Aegina

Aegina

Aegina was the island located in the Saronic Gulf, east of the coast of Argolis. Aegina was originally called Oenone or Oenopia. Aegina was named after the daughter of river-god Asopus, in Sicyonia. Zeus fell in love with Aegina, transformed himse...

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Lemnos

Lemnos

Lemnos was a large island in the Thracian Sea (northern Aegean). The island was famous in Greek myth because the Lemnian women ruled the island. At the time, Thoas ruled it. Thoas was the son of the wine-god Dionysus and Ariadne , daughter of Mino...

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Icaria

Icaria

Icaria was an island in the Aegean Sea, west of Samos. Icaria was mostly known for being the island named after Icarius , son of Daedalus . Daedalus was the inventor for Minos , king of Crete. When Theseus escaped from the Labyrinth and killed the...

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Aeaea

Aeaea

The island of Aeaea was the home of the sorceress Circe. Homer never disclosed the location of the island, but later writers put it in the Tyrrhenian Sea, north of Sicily and southeast of Italy, probably on one of the Aeolian islands. Circe was a ...

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Tyro

Tyro

King of Salmonia, in Elis, Salmoneus (Σαλμωνεύς) was the father of Tyro (Τυρώ) by Alicidice, daughter of Aleüs (Aleus), king of Arcadia. Not long after taking his second wife, Sidero (Σιδηρύ), Salmoneus' daughter bore twin sons, Neleus (Νηλεύς) an...

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Naxos

Naxos

Naxos was one of the larger islands of the Cyclades in the Aegean Sea. It was first called Strongyle before it was renamed to Dia. When Naxos, a Carian, became king, the island was then named after him. Naxos was the island where the Athenian hero...

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Cos

Cos

Cos was one of the Dodecanese islands, west of the Carian city of Cnidus, Asia Minor. The people of Cos (Coans) were originally called the Merops after their king, Meropes. Heracles' ships were driven by a storm from Hera to the island of Cos. The...

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Salamis

Salamis

Salamis was an island in the Saronic Gulf which became part of Attica in classical times. Cychreus was the first king of the island, who had named the island after his mother. Telamon was exiled by his father from his home in Aegina. He migrated t...

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