Lesbos - Lesbos Lesbos (Λέσβος) is an island in the Aegean Sea near Turkey but belonging to Greece. In modern Greek, the island's name is Lesvos and its inhabitants are Lesvonians (rather than Lesbians), or Lesviots. Principal towns on the island are Mytiline (the capital), Kalloni, Mythimna, Plomari, Agiassos, Petra. The island has been inhabited since the Bronze Age. It is first mentioned in Hittite records as Lazpa. In Greek mythology, "Lesbos" was also the name of the patron god of the island, son of Lapithes. He married Methymna. The word lesbian is derived from the island's name. This originates in the poems of Sappho of Lesbos, where love between women was described. Due to this link, Lesbos has often been the destination of cruises and other vacations.
Ibycus - Garrulitate, xiv.). The phrase, "the cranes of Ibycus," passed into a proverb among the Greeks for the discovery of crime through divine intervention. According to Suidas, Ibycus wrote seven books of lyrics, to some extent mythical and heroic, but mainly erotic (Cicero, Tusc. Disp. iv. 33), celebrating the charms of beautiful youths and girls. FG Welcker suggests that they were sung by choruses of boys at the "beauty competitions" held at Lesbos. Although the metre and dialect are Dorian, the poems breathe the spirit of Aeolian melic poetry. This entry was originally from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica..
Ionian Revolt - take the citadel, they were free to pillage the town. During the pillaging, fires set throughout the city spread out of control and burned Sardis to the ground. (It is said that when Darius, the Persian Emperor, heard of Sardis being burnt by the Athenians he swore vengeance upon them, and tasked a servant with reminding him three times each day of his vow. In some accounts, Darius is entirely unaware of the existence of Athenians before the attack -- so vast was the Persian Empire, and so minor were the Greek peoples.) Having met with some measure of success, the Greek troops were forced to return to Ephesus as Persian reinforcements approached. On their way, however, they were ambushed by the Persian army and disastrously defeated. The Athenian troops rapidly.
Irene of the Byzantine Empire - to the provinces, but even there he was surrounded by participants in the plot. Seized by his attendants on the Asiatic shore of the Bosporus, the emperor was carried back to the palace at Constantinople; and there, by the orders of his mother, his eyes were stabbed out. An eclipse of the sun and a darkness of seventeen days' duration were attributed by the common superstition to the horror of heaven. Irene reigned in prosperity and splendour for five years. She is said to have endeavoured to negotiate a marriage between herself and Charlemagne; but according to Theophanes, who alone mentions it, the scheme was frustrated by Aëtius, one of her favourites. A projected alliance between Constantine and Charlemagne's daughter, Rothrude, was in turn broken off by Irene. In 802 the.
Vulcano - 1,600 feet (500 meters) For the Romans, the island of Vulcano was the habitation of the firegod Vulcan. The Greek firegod Hephaestos maintained his chthonic forge on the island of Lesbos. The older stratovolcano cones have partially collapsed in calderas . The youngest cone on the island, Vulcanello, began to form in an eruption of 183 BCE. Vulcano has been quiet since the eruption of 1888-90. Vulcano has contributed the words for volcano in most modern languages..
Gay village - known as primarily gay areas, for example Key West, Florida; Saugatuck, Michigan; Provincetown, Massachusetts; Fire Island, New York; Mykonos, Greece; and Sitges, Catalonia, Spain. Many such resorts welcome their gay tourists and have many facilities for them, but not all of them (for example, Lesbos, Greece) appreciate the attention. See also The Village People..
George Papandreou, senior - Venizelos, who made him Governor of Lesbos after the Balkan War of 1912. He married a Polish woman, Sofia Mineyko, and their son Andreas Papandreou was born at Chios in 1919. During the political crisis surrounding Greece's entry into World War I, Papandreou was one of Venizelos's closest supporters against the pro-German King Constantine I. When Venizelos was forced to flee Athens, Papandreou accompanied him to Crete, and then went to Lesbos, where he mobilised anti-monarchist supporters in the islands and rallied support for Venizelos's insurgent pro-British government in Thessaloniki. In 1921 he narrowly escaped assassination. Papandreou served as a Venizelist Member of Parliament, as Interior Minister in 1923, and in several other government posts during the Republic of 1924–1935. A lifelong opponent of the Greek monarchy, he was exiled in.
Edremit - the west coast of Asia Minor, not far from the Greek island Lesbos. Location: 39.58° N, 27.03° E (decimal degrees) The Latin name for Edremit is Adramyttium, mentioned in the New Testament (Acts 27:2), as a city of Asia Minor on the coast of Mysia, which in early times was called Æolis. The ship in which Paul embarked at Caesarea belonged to this city (Acts 27:2). He was conveyed in it only to Myra, in Lycia, whence he sailed in an Alexandrian ship to Italy. It was a rare thing for a ship to sail from any port of Palestine direct for Italy. In the 19th century, the name Adramyti was used. Parts of this text come from Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897).
Delian League - Sparta was eager to stop prosecuting the war. They surrendered the leadership of the ongoing campaign to Athens, which was eager to accept it. The Delian League was inaugurated in 477 BC as an offensive and defensive alliance against Persia. The principal cities in the League were Athens, Chios, Samos, and Lesbos, but many of the principal islands and Ionian cities joined the league. Athens led the Delian League from the beginning, though at its founding the treasury was located on the island of Delos, and each state in the league had an equal vote. The assessment due from each state was assigned by Aristides the Just, leader of the Athenians; some members were assessed ships, others money. A council of all the cities met at Delos regularly, probably when bringing.
Delphinus (constellation) - first appeared in a star catalogue of 1814 that was published at the Palermo Observatory in Italy. When read backwards they form the name Nicolaus Venator which is the latinized version of the name of the assistant director of that observatory at that time: Niccolo Cacciatore (both Cacciatore and Venator mean hunter). Mythology There are two major stories from Greek mythology behind this constellation. According to the first one, Greek god Poseidon wanted to marry Amphitrite, a nereid. She, however, wanting to protect her virginity, fled to the Atlas mountains. Her suitor then sent out several searchers, among them a certain Delphinus. Delphinus accidentally stumbled upon her and was able to persuade Amphitrite to accept Poseidon's wooing. Out of gratitude the god placed the image of a dolphin among the stars..
344 BC - Events Aristotle, a student of Plato, investigates natural history (especially marine biology) on the island of Lesbos. Plato moves from Assus to Mitylene. Eastern Anatolia separates from Persia. Dionysius, Tyrant of Syracuse goes into exile after an invasion by Timoleon of Corinth. Battle of Granciu. Births Deaths Larissa Thessaly.
428 BC - BC 424 BC 423 BC Births Deaths Events Mytilene, chief city of Lesbos, rebels..
7th century BC - (674 BC - 670 BC) Collapse of Nineveh, end of Assyria (612 BC) Japanese capital founded Zoroastrianism founded Significant persons: Thales of Miletus (c.625 BC - c.546 BC) Sappho of Lesbos Zarathushtra Inventions, Discoveries, Introductions First coins used by Lydians Iron allegedly discovered in China.
803 - by Byzantine Empire. Births Du Mu, Chinese poet Deaths August 9 - Former Byzantine Emperor Irene (exiled to Lesbos)\n.
802 - Events 31 October - Irene deposed as Emperoress of Byzantium and replaced by Nicephorus I. She is banished to Lesbos. Jayavarman II declares the Khmer independent and establishes the kingdom of Angkor. Beginning of a "period of confusion" without a clear king in Bulgaria. Egbert becomes king of Wessex. Vikings sack Iona. Births Deaths Æthelmund, Earl of Hwicce (fallen in battle).\n.
Aeolic Greek - archaic Greek sub-dialects, spoken mainly in Boeotia (a region in Central Greece), in Lesbos (an island close to Asia Minor) and in other Greek colonies. It is probable that the Aeolic speakers represent the second (i.e. Achaean) migratory wave of Greeks (Hellenes) from the plains of Central Europe (or, according to other opinions, from what is present-day Ukraine) into their current homeland. The so-called "Aeolic dialect" shows many archaisms, in comparison to the other Greek dialects (i.e. Ionian-Attic, Doric, Northwestern and Arcado-Cypriot), as well as many innovations, too. The main traits of the Aeolic dialect are the following: a) The original Indo-european (and Proto-Greek) labiovelar [qw] turned everywhere in [p], a trait which finds its exact counterpart in the so-called P-Celtic languages (Welsh, Breton, Cornish, Ancient Gaulish etc.) and in some.
Alcaeus - of Tiryns and father of Amphitryon. Alcaeus (ALKAIOS), Greek lyric poet, an older contemporary of Sappho, was a native of Mytilene in Lesbos and flourished about 600 b.c. His life was greatly mixed up with the political disputes and internal feuds of his native city. He belonged to one of the noble families, and sided with his class against the "tyrants" who at that time set themselves up in Mytilene. He was in consequence obliged to leave his native country, and spent a considerable time in exile. He is said to have become reconciled to Pittacus, the ruler set up by the popular party, and to have returned to Lesbos. The date of his death is unknown. The subjects of his poems, which were composed in the Aeolic dialect, were of.
Andronicus III - engaged in constant war, chiefly with the Ottoman Turks, who greatly extended their territory, conquering almost all of Asia Minor. He annexed large regions in Thessaly and Epirus, but they were lost before his death to the rising power of Serbia under Stephen Dusan. Andronicus worked on the reorganization of the navy, and recovered Lesbos and Chios from the Genoese. He died in 1341, and was succeeded by his son, John V. Preceded by: Andronicus II Byzantine emperors Followed by: John V.
Arion - was a legendary poet in ancient Greece (originally of Lesbos) who lived in the court of Periander, tyrant of Corinth, Greece. He attended a musical competition in Sicily, which he won. On his return trip from Sicily, the avaricious sailors plotted to kill Arion and steal the rich prizes he carried homewards. Arion was given the choice of "suicide" with a proper burial on land, or being thrown in the sea to perish. Neither prospect appealed to Arion and he asked for permission to sing a last song to win time. Playing his chitara, Arion song a praise to Apollo, the god of poetry, and his song attracted a number of dolphins around the ship. At the end of the song Arion threw himself in the sea rather than be killed,.
Atlantis - peplos was carried to the goddess, for she had once saved the city, gaining victory over the nation of Poseidon, that is, the Atlanteans. As Lewis Spence comments, this cult was in existence already 125 years before Plato, which means that the story could not be invented by him. The historian Ammianus Marcellinus wrote that "the intelligentsia of Alexandria considered the destruction of Atlantis an historical fact, described a class of earthquakes that suddenly, by a violent motion, opened up huge mouths and so swallowed up portions of the earth, as once in the Atlantic Ocean a large island was swallowed up. Diodorus Siculus recorded that the Atlanteans did not know the fruits of Ceres. In fact, cereals were unknown to American Indians. Pausanias called these island "Satyrides," referring to the.
