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LESVOS (Island) NORTH AEGEAN
MITHYMNA (Ancient city) LESVOS
Now after he (Thrasybulus) had accomplished these things and had won over the Calchedonians also as friends, he sailed back out of the Hellespont. And finding that all the cities in Lesbos except Mytilene were on the side of the Lacedaemonians, he went against none of them until he had marshalled in Mytilene the four hundred hoplites from his own ships and all the exiles from the Lesbian cities who had fled for refuge to Mytilene, and had also added to this force the stoutest of the Mytilenaeans themselves; nor, furthermore, until he had suggested hopes, firstly to the Mytilenaeans, that if he captured the cities they would be the leaders of all Lesbos, secondly to the exiles, that if they proceeded all together against each single one of the cities, they would be able, acting in unison, to accomplish their restoration to their native states, and again to his marines, that by making Lesbos likewise friendly to their state they would at once obtain a great abundance of money. Then, after giving them this encouragement and marshalling them in line of battle, he led them against Methymna. Therimachus, however, who chanced to be the Lacedaemonian governor, on hearing that Thrasybulus was coming against him, took the marines from his own ships, the Methymnaeans themselves, and all the Mytilenaean exiles who chanced to be there, and went to meet the enemy at the borders. A battle was fought in which Therimachus was killed on the spot and many of the others were killed as they fled.
This extract is from: Xenophon, Hellenica. Cited Sept 2003 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlink
In this year (392 BC) the Athenians chose Thrasybulus general and sent him to sea with forty triremes. He sailed to Ionia, collected funds from the allies, and proceeded on his way; and while tarrying at the Chersonesus he made allies of Medocus and Seuthes, the kings of the Thracians. After some time he sailed from the Hellespont to Lesbos and anchored off the coast at Eresus. But strong winds arose and twenty-three triremes were lost. Getting off safe with the other ships he advanced against the cities of Lesbos, with the intention of winning them over; for they had all revolted with the exception of Mitylene. First he appeared before Methymna and joined battle with the men of the city, who were commanded by the Spartan Therimachus. In a brilliant fight he slew not only Therimachus himself but no small number of the Methymnaeans and shut up the rest of them within their walls; he also ravaged the territory of the Methymnaeans and received the surrender of Eresus and Antissa. After this he gathered ships from the Chian and Mitylenaean allies and sailed to Rhodes.
This extract is from: Diodorus Siculus, Library (ed. C. H. Oldfather, 1989). Cited Oct 2003 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.
ANTISSA (Ancient city) LESVOS
In 167 B.C. the Romans destroyed Antissa, and gave her territory to Methymna.
MYTILINI (Ancient city) LESVOS
Lesbos joined the Greek revolt against Rome in the Mithridatic war and in 88 B.C. the Romans destroyed Mytilene and extended Roman domination over the whole island.
In 427, after a siege, the Athenians gained control of Mytilene, and divided a large section of the island among 2700 Athenians cleruchs, after harshly punishing the instigators of the revolt.
LESVOS (Island) NORTH AEGEAN
No trace of the ancient city (Ilium at Troad) survives; and naturally
so, for while the cities all round it were sacked, but not completely destroyed,
yet that city was so utterly demolished that all the stones were taken from it
to rebuild the others. At any rate, Archaeanax of Mitylene is said to have built
a wall round Sigeium with stones taken from there. Sigeium was seized by Athenians
under Phrynon the Olympian victor, although the Lesbians laid claim to almost
the whole of the Troad. Most of the settlements in the Troad belong, in fact,
to the Lesbians, and some endure to this day, while others have disappeared. Pittacus
of Mitylene, one of the Seven Wise Men, as they are called, sailed against Phrynon
the general and for a time carried on the war, but with poor management and ill
consequences. It was at this time that the poet Alcaeus says that he himself,
being sorely pressed in a certain battle, threw away his arms. He addresses his
account of it to a certain herald, whom he had bidden to report to the people
at home that "Alcaeus is safe, but his arms have been hung up as an offering to
Ares by the Attic army in the temple of Athena Glaucopis." But later, on being
challenged to single combat by Phrynon, he took up his fishing-tackle, ran to
meet him, entangled him in his fishing net, and stabbed and slew him with trident
and dagger. But since the war still went on, Periander was chosen by both sides
as arbiter and ended it.
This extract is from: The Geography of Strabo (ed. H. L. Jones, 1924), Cambridge. Harvard University Press. Cited Jan 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.
Following the end of the Late Bronze Age there was a 400 year hiatus at the site (Troy) until it was resettled at ca. 700 B.C. by Greek colonists, possibly from Lesbos or Tenedos.
Sestus, a colony of the Lesbians, as is also Madytus, as the Geographer says, is a Chersonesian city thirty stadia distant from Abydus, from harbor to harbor (Strabo Fr.55b)
MITHYMNA (Ancient city) LESVOS
The acropolis of Assos was occupied in the Bronze Age, but first began to expand in the 8th and 7th centuries B.C. when Aeolian colonists from Methymna on Lesbos replaced the Carian inhabitants.
Myrsilus says that Assus was founded by the Methymnaeans (Stabo 13,1,58)
MYTILINI (Ancient city) LESVOS
Amasis became a philhellene, and besides other services which he did
for some of the Greeks, he gave those who came to Egypt the city of Naucratis
to live in; and to those who travelled to the country without wanting to settle
there, he gave lands where they might set up altars and make holy places for their
gods. Of these the greatest and most famous and most visited precinct is that
which is called the Hellenion, founded jointly by the Ionian cities of Chios,
Teos, Phocaea, and Clazomenae, the Dorian cities of Rhodes, Cnidus, Halicarnassus,
and Phaselis, and one Aeolian city, Mytilene.
Throughout its long history, Lesvos has to show for a plethora of
intellectuals. The most famous among the ones who lived and worked on the island
are: Terpandros (700 B.C.), poet and musician the father of ancient lyrical poetry,
Pittakos (648 B.C.) politician and one of the seven wise men of Ancient Greece,
Arion (625 B.C.), a charismatic lyrical poet and mucisian, Alcaeus (600 B.C.),
one of the best known lyrical poets of ancient Greece, and finally Sappho (620
B.C.), the most famous ancient Greek poetesses whose poems, distinguished for
their stylistic elegance, passion and depth of feeling, won her the name the "tenth
Muse". Other significant personalities are Theophrastus (372 B.C.) philosopher
and botanist - known as the father of botany - and Theophanes (100 B.C.), a significant
historian who accompanied Pompey in his Asia Minor expeditions.
During the Roman and Byzantine periods the island’s intellectual
life is relatively stagnant. During the years of the Turkish occupation, the cultural
life declines but during the 15th century the Monastery of Lemonas becomes the
center of the island’s intellectual revival.
In the 18th century significant personalities appear: Ignatius of
Hungary - Wallachia and Benjamin the Lesvian, who is numbered among a group of
18th and 19th century scholars known as the "teachers of the race".
In the 19th century, the brothers Dimitrios and Gregorios Vernardakis,
Georgios Aristedis and Christoforos Leilios support Greek education and the intellectual
life of the island.
Later, during the 20th century, Argyris Eftaliotis blows new breath
into Greek Literature, while the great novelists Stratis Myrivilis and Elias Venezis
send pacifistic and humanistic messages to an international reading public. F.Kontoglou,
K.Makistos, S.Paraskevaedis, P.Samaras, A.Panselinos, M.Kountouras, V.Archontides
and the poet and Nobel laureate Odysseas Elytis, whose poetry along with that
of Sappho made the beauty of the island’s nature famous, contributed to
a flourishing of the letters that came to be known as the "Lesvian Spring".
Certainly, intellectual production could not be limited to literature
and poetry. At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th F.Kontoglou,
Iakovides, Protopatsis, O.Kanellis, the famous folk painter Theophilos Chatzimichael
and the art critic and inspired editor of art-books Stratis Eleftheriadis - Teriad
each makes his own contribution to art.
To this day - at the dawn of the 21st century - cultural life on the
island is rich and many creative people as well as cultural societies still contribute
to the ongoing intellectual Spring of Lesvos.
This text is cited May 2003 from the Prefecture of Lesvos URL below, which contains images.
Arginusae (Arginousai). Three small islands off the coast of Aeolis, opposite Mytilene in Lesbos, celebrated for the naval victory of the Athenians over the Lacedaemonians under Callicratidas, B.C. 406.
In 499 B.C. Lesbos joined the Ionian revolt against the Persians, and in 494 took part in the battle of Lade with 70 triremes.
MYTILINI (Ancient city) LESVOS
Near the outlet of the Hebrus, which has two mouths, lies the city Aenus, on the Melas Gulf; it was founded by Mitylenaeans and Cumaeans, though in still earlier times by Alopeconnesians.
On the next stretch of coast one comes to the villages of the Mitylenaeans, I mean Coryphantis and Heracleia
ARISVI (Ancient city) LESVOS
The city of Arisba was independent before the time of Herodotos, but was soon taken over by Methymna.
ERESSOS (Ancient city) LESVOS
He gathered a force of mercenaries, manned three hundred ships, and pursued the conflict vigorously. He secured Chios, and then coasting along to Lesbos easily mastered Antissa and Methymna and Pyrrha and Eressus.
LESVOS (Island) NORTH AEGEAN
From about 546 to 479 B.C. Lesbos was ruled by the Persians
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