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In Greek mythology, Thoas ( Ancient Greek: Θόας, "fleet, swift") [1] was a son of the god Dionysus and Ariadne, the daughter of the Cretan king Minos. He was the king of Lemnos when the Lemnian women decided to kill all the men on the island. He was the only man to survive the massacre, having been saved by his daughter Hypsipyle. [2]
Lemnos. / 39.917°N 25.250°E / 39.917; 25.250. Lemnos or Limnos ( Greek: Λήμνος; Ancient Greek: Λῆμνος) is a Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea. Administratively the island forms a separate municipality within the Lemnos regional unit, which is part of the North Aegean region.
Hypsipyle. Hypsipyle saving Thoas. In Greek mythology, Hypsipyle ( Ancient Greek: Ὑψιπύλη, romanized : Hypsipýlē) [1] was a queen of Lemnos, and the daughter of King Thoas of Lemnos, and the granddaughter of Dionysus and Ariadne. When the women of Lemnos killed all the males on the island, Hypsipyle saved her father Thoas.
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Demetrios Palaiologos or Demetrius Palaeologus ( Greek: Δημήτριος Παλαιολόγος, romanized : Dēmētrios Palaiologos; 1407–1470) was Despot of the Morea together with his brother Thomas from 1449 until the fall of the despotate in 1460. Demetrios and Thomas were sons of Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos, and brothers ...
Aug 22, 2022 · Detail from Lemnos Island, Port Mudros Survey Map, 1916. Courtesy of the British Library. Nine soldiers are recorded as having been buried here, five British soldiers and four Australians. The ...
Accounts. The trial of Theoris of Lemnos is the best-known of several classical Athenian trials of women who practiced magic; [1] it is also the best-attested, appearing in three ancient sources. [2] The earliest and most detailed source is Demosthenes ' [a] speech Against Aristogeiton, [3] which was addressed to jurors in the trial of ...
Lemnian. The Lemnian language was spoken on the island of Lemnos, Greece, in the second half of the 6th century BC. [1] It is mainly attested by an inscription found on a funerary stele, termed the Lemnos stele, discovered in 1885 near Kaminia. Fragments of inscriptions on local pottery show that it was spoken there by a community. [2]
