- Information
- island in the Aegean Sea
- Alternative name
- 🌍 Pelasgia (alt. Lesbos)
- Cult site of
- 👤 Apollo 👤 Dionysos 👤 Poseidon
- Place of birth of
- 👤 Prylis
- Place of burial of
- 👤 Palamedes 🏺 the Head of Orpheus
- Settled by
- 👥 the Aiolians 👤 Penthilos (s. of Orestes)
- Settled from
- 🌍 Boiotia 🌍 Aiolia
- Ruled by
- 👤 Pylaios 👤 Macareus (Lesbian)
- Conquered by
- 👤 Achilles 👥 the Aiolians 👤 Gras 👤 Penthilos (s. of Orestes)
- Relics preserved on site
- 🏺 the Lyre of Orpheus 🏺 the Head of Orpheus
- Encompases
- 🌍 Issa (Lesbos) 🏛️ the Temple of Apollo at Lesbos 🏛️ the Temple of Dionysos at Lesbos 🌍 Methymna (Lesbos) 🌍 Mount Cillaion (Lesbos) 🌍 Mount Pylaios (Lesbos) 🌍 Eresos (Lesbos) 🏛️ the Stone Snake of Lesbos
- Related Entities
- 👤 Achilles 👤 Apollo 👤 Artemis 👤 Diomedes (Argive I) 👤 Dionysos 👤 Poseidon 🌍 Athens (Attica) 🌍 Crete (island) 🌍 Naxos (island) 🌍 Lemnos (island) 👤 Palamedes 👤 Leto 👤 Menelaos 👤 Nestor 👤 Odysseus 👥 the Greek Contingent at Troy 👤 Thersites 🏺 the Trojan Horse 👥 the Argos Contingent at Troy (attackers) 👥 the Lacedaimon Contingent at Troy (attackers) 👥 the Pylos Contingent at Troy (attackers) 🌍 Cape Geraistos (Euboia) 🌍 Mount Ida (Troad) 🌍 Troy (Troad) 🌍 Aulis (Boiotia) 🌍 Tenedos (island) 🌍 Phocaia (Ionia) 🌍 Hypoplacian Thebes (Troad) 🌍 Lyrnessos (Troad) 🌍 Boiotia 🌍 Euboia (island) 🌍 Thrace (N. Greece) 🌍 Argos (city) 🌍 Pylos (Messenia) 🌍 Scyros (island) 🌍 Mount Pelion (Thessaly) 🌍 Paros (island) 🌍 Laconia (Peloponnese) 🌍 Samos (island) 👥 the Pelasgians 🌍 Delos (island) 🌍 Chios (island) 👥 the Aiolians 🌍 Mount Mimas (Ionia) 🌍 Aigina (island) 🌍 Miletos (Asia Minor) 🌍 Samothrace (island) 🌍 Mount Mycale (Caria) 🌍 Chryse (Troad) 🌍 Cilla (Troad) 👤 Pylaios 🌍 Crapathos (island) 🌍 Cos (city) 🌍 Claros (Ionia) 🌍 Pedasos (Troad) 👤 Diomede (Lesbian) 🌍 River Granicos (Asia Minor) 🌍 Imbros (island) 🌍 Mount Athos (Chalcidice) 👤 Prylis 👤 Gras 👤 Penthilos (s. of Orestes) 🌍 Ionia 🌍 Cnidos (Cyprus) 🌍 Mount Corycos (Ionia) 🌍 Aigai (Achaia) 👤 Philomeleides 🌍 Eiresiai (unlocatable) 🌍 Peparethos (island) 🌍 Autocane (Ionia) 🌍 Mount Aisagee (unlocatable) 🌍 Rhenaia (island) 👤 Macareus (Lesbian) 🌍 River Hebros (N. Greece) 🏺 the Lyre of Orpheus 🏺 the Head of Orpheus 🌍 Pitane (Asia Minor) 🌍 Aiolia 👤 Nyctimene 👤 Epopeus (Lesbian) 🌍 Assos (Troad) 👤 Myton 👤 the Snake of Lesbos
- Mentioned by
- 📖 Apollodoros, Epitome 3.33 📖 Lycophron, Alexandra 202-228 📖 Homer, Odyssey 3.151-3.183 📖 Homer, Odyssey 4.341-4.345 📖 Homeric Hymn 3 to Apollo 25-49 📖 Homer, Iliad 9.656-9.675 📖 Homer, Iliad 24.543-24.551 📖 Pausanias 3.2.1-3.2.2 📖 Strabo 9.2.3-9.2.4 📖 Strabo 9.2.5 📖 Aithiopis Argumentum 1 West 📖 Lucian, The Ignorant Book-Collector 11-12 📖 Diegeseis to Callimachus 2.41-3.11 Norsa & Vitelli = Aetia fr. 92a Harder 📖 Ovid, Metamorphoses 2.531-2.632 📖 Strabo 13.1.3 📖 Strabo 13.1.7 📖 Strabo 13.3.2-13.3.3 📖 Strabo 5.2.3-5.2.4 📖 Callimachus, Aetia fr. 111 Harder 📖 Ovid, Metamorphoses 13.140-13.195
- Mentioned in Text
- Apollodoros, Epitome Homer, Iliad Lycophron, Alexandra Homer, Odyssey Pausanias Homeric Hymn 3 to Apollo Strabo Aithiopis Callimachus, Aetia Lucian, The Ignorant Book-Collector Ovid, Metamorphoses Diegeseis to Callimachus
- Mentioned in citation of
- 📖 Homer, Iliad 2.686-2.694 📖 Homer, Iliad 9.270-9.320 📖 Homer, Iliad 20.86-20.102 📖 Callimachus, Aetia fr. 91-92 Harder 📖 Menecrates of Elaia FHG fr. 1
- Relevant to local traditions reported from
- 🌍 Lesbos (island) 🌍 Chios (island)
- Reported to have local traditions about
- 🌍 Lesbos (island) 👥 the Pelasgians 🌍 Chios (island) 🌍 Mount Mycale (Caria) 👤 Pylaios 🌍 Ionia 🌍 Mount Pylaios (Lesbos)
- Local traditions reported by
- 📖 Strabo 13.3.2-13.3.3