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SIKINOS (Island) KYKLADES
When women of Lemnos killed the men of the island, king Thoas escaped with the help of his daughter Hypsipyle, who put him in a large jar and threw him to the sea. Thoas reached the island of Sicinos (then, Oenoe), where he had a son, Sicinus, by a nymph, after whom the island was named.
ANAFI (Island) KYKLADES
Sailing by night they (Argonauts) encountered a violent storm, and Apollo, taking his stand on the Melantian ridges, flashed lightning down, shooting a shaft into the sea. Then they perceived an island close at hand, and anchoring there they named it Anaphe, because it had loomed up unexpectedly. So they founded an altar of Radiant Apollo, and having offered sacrifice they betook them to feasting; and twelve handmaids, whom Arete had given to Medea, jested merrily with the chiefs; whence it is still customary for the women to jest at the sacrifice
This extract is from: Apollodorus, Library and Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer, 1921). Cited Feb 2003 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.
SANTORINI (Island) KYKLADES
On the island now called Thera, but then Calliste, there were descendants of Membliarus the son of Poeciles, a Phoenician; for Cadmus son of Agenor had put in at the place now called Thera during his search for Europa; and having put in, either because the land pleased him, or because for some other reason he desired to do so, he left on this island his own relation Membliarus together with other Phoenicians.
This extract is from: Herodotus. The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley, 1920), Cambridge. Harvard University Press. Cited Feb 2003 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.
FOLEGANDROS (Island) KYKLADES
Minoas' son, who habit the island with Cretans.
SANTORINI (Island) KYKLADES
Α Phoenician, founder of a settlement in the island of Calliste or Thera, appointed by Cadmus to govern Thera.
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