Paros
place · 5 works · 5 mentions · 6 anchored passages
sea-girt Paros
in the texts
The Histories
Aegean island city besieged unsuccessfully by Miltiades after Marathon.
Miltiades took his army and sailed for Paros, on the pretext that the Parians had brought this on themselves by first sending triremes with the Persian fleet to Marathon.
The Parians had no intention of giving Miltiades any money at all, and they contrived how to defend their city.
So Miltiades sailed back home in a sorry condition, neither bringing money for the Athenians nor having won Paros;
Hymn 2 to Demeter
Paros is named in the closing prayer as a place under Demeter's queenly care.
And now, queen of the land of sweet Eleusis and sea-girt Paros and rocky Antron, lady, giver of good gifts, bringer of seasons, queen Deo, be gracious, you and your daughter all beauteous Persephone, and for my song grant me heart-cheering substance.
Aegineticus
The island where the speaker's friends had deposited money that he rescued at risk to his life when the city was seized.
but when Pasinus took Paros, it chanced that my friends had the greatest part of their fortune deposited as a pledge with my guest-friends there;
for the country was occupied by a garrison, and some of the exiles from our island participated in the seizure of the city, and these, in one day and with their own hands, had slain my father, my uncle, my brother-in-law and, in addition, three cousins.
Apology
Island city of origin of the sophist Evenus.
Evenus, he said, Socrates, from Paros, five minae.
Hellenica
An island Alcibiades sails to on his way toward Sparta to gauge sentiment about his return.
And now Alcibiades sailed from Samos with his twenty ships and his money to Paros, and from there directed his course straight to Gytheium, in order to take a look at the thirty triremes which he heard the Lacedaemonians were making ready there and to see how his city felt toward him, with reference to his homecoming.