Listed 13 sub titles with search on: Various locations for wider area of: "SOUTH AEGEAN Region GREECE" .
PAROS (Island) KYKLADES
There is also an Asopus that flows past Thebes and Plataea and Tanagra, and there is another in the Trachinian Heracleia that flows past a village which they call Parasopii, and there is a fourth in Paros. (Strabo 8,6,24)
A mountain in Paros, from which the celebrated Parian marble was obtained. Hence Vergil speaks of Marpesia cautes
ANDROS (Island) KYKLADES
a harbor in the island of Andros, Liv. 31, 45.
DELOS (Island) KYKLADES
A mountain of Delos, celebrated as the birthplace of Apollo and Artemis, who were hence called Cynthius and Cynthia respectively.
(Inopos). A river of Delos, watering the plain in which the town of Delos stood. It was said to rise and fall at the same time as the Nile, and hence was supposed to be in some way connected with that river
KOS (Island) DODEKANISSOS
A river in the island of Cos.
Cape in Cos.
A mountain in the island of Cos, which is about 2760 feet high. (Plin.
v. 36.) From a scholion (ad Theocrit. vii. 45) it might be inferred that Oromedon
was another name for Mount Prion; but according to another ancient commentator
Oromedon was either a surname of some divinity, or the name of some wealthy and
powerful man.
RHODES (Island) DODEKANISSOS
After Lindus one comes to Ixia, a stronghold, and to Mnasyrium; then to Atabyris
Between these (Kameiros & Rhodes) lies Thoantium, a kind of promontory; and it is off Thoantium, generally speaking, that Chalcia and the Sporades in the neighborhood of Chalcia lie
SYMI (Island) DODEKANISSOS
Teuglussa (Teugloussa), an island mentioned by Thucydides (viii. 42, where some
read Teutloussa), which, from the manner he speaks of it, must have been.situated
between Syme and Halicarnassus. Stephanus B. also mentions the island on the authority
of Thucydides, but calls it Teutlussa and an island of Ionia. There can be no
doubt that the Scutlusa mentioned by Pliny (v. 36) is the same as the Teuglussa
or Teutlussa of Thucydides.
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