Seriphos
place · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
in the texts
On the Nature of the Gods
A small island used as a hypothetical setting to illustrate the narrowness of belief limited to direct experience.
What narrowness of mind is this — that, if you had been born in Seriphos and had never gone out of the island, where you had often seen little hares and foxes, you would not believe there were lions and panthers when you were told what they were like;
Aegineticus
The island home of Thrasyllus's third wife, mother of Sopolis, Thrasylochus, and their sister.
After this he married a woman of Seriphos, belonging to a family of greater consequence than might be expected of a native of their island.