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Lesbos

Lesbos was a large island in the Aegean Sea, off the western coast of Mysia, Asia Minor. The only mythological tale I could find that was associated with Lesbos was that of Myrina, the Amazon queen of Libya, who seized the island with her warriors (Amazons). Myrina founded the city of Mitylene, which was named after her sister.

Historically, it was the home of several great lyric poets during the Archaic period: Terpander and Arion as well as Alcaeus and Sappho.

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Lesbos, Λέσβος.

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Myrina (of Mitylene)

Rulers

Myrina.

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Northern Aegean:

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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 Minos...

August 8th, 1999 • Jimmy Joe
Northern Aegean

Northern Aegean

The Northern Aegean islands are north and northeast of the Aegean, comprising of a number of large islands west of Asia Minor and south of Thrace.

August 8th, 1999 • Jimmy Joe
Myrina

Myrina

A Libyan Amazon queen. Nothing is known about Myrina, except in the account of Diodorus Siculus' Library of History (1st century BC). Her capital was in the city of Cherronesus, in Libya. According to Diodorus, Myrina lived in the time before Pers...

January 1st, 2002 • Jimmy Joe
Islands

Islands

Aegean Islands Other IslandsAegean Islands The Aegean Sea has a large number of islands, with Crete in the south being the largest island. The Aegean island also included several groups of islands such as the Northern Aegean, the Cyclades, the Nor...

August 8th, 1999 • Jimmy Joe
Cythera

Cythera

Cythera is the large island south of the Peloponnesus, and the easternmost island in the group of islands known as the Ionian Islands. Cythera is a cult centre of Aphrodite. One of her epithets was Cythereia; Hesiod wrote: Her gods and men call Ap...

August 8th, 1999 • Jimmy Joe
Delos

Delos

Delos was a small island in the Cyclades, located between two larger islands, Rhenea and Myconus. It was probably called Asteria or Ortygia after Asteria, daughter of the Titans, Coeüs and Phoebe, and sister of Leto. Asteria was changed into a qua...

August 8th, 1999 • Jimmy Joe
Lydia

Lydia

Lydia was a region between Mysia and Caria, in Asia Minor. The region was named after Lydus, son of Attis. Lydia was the kingdom where Queen Omphale ruled, after the death of her husband Tmolus, who was king of Lydia. Omphale was a daughter of Iar...

August 8th, 1999 • Jimmy Joe
Chios

Chios

Chios is a large island, located west of Ionia, Asia Minor. In the Homeric Hymn to the Delian Apollo, Chios was described as being a rocky island. Oenopion was ruler of Chios when the giant hunter Orion became his daughter's suitor. His daughter w...

August 8th, 1999 • Jimmy Joe
Cherronesus

Cherronesus

Cherronesus was the legendary city of the Amazons, located somewhere in western Libya. Most of the (scarce) details about the city came from Diodorus Siculus, a Greek historian in Sicily who flourished in the first century BC. Under the rule of th...

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Ionian Islands

Ionian Islands

The Ionian Islands are located on the western side of Greece, in the Ionian Sea. Only three islands had mythological importance, especially Ithaca, the home of the hero Odysseus.

August 8th, 1999 • Jimmy Joe
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