Cyclades
place · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
islands · the Cyclades
spoken of as
1 expressionin the texts
Ion
Island group in the Aegean where Ion's descendants are foretold to found new settlements.
And their children again shall in the time appointed found an island home amid the Cyclades and on the sea-coast, thereby strengthening my country;
Panathenaicus
The island group formerly contested and occupied by Carians, later settled by needy Greeks under Athenian action.
First they took the islands of the Cyclades, about which there had been much contention during the overlordship of Minos of Crete and which finally were occupied by the Carians, and, having driven out the latter, refrained from appropriating the lands of these islands for themselves, but instead settled upon them those of the Hellenes who were most lacking in means of subsistence.