The Island · Atlas

spoken of as

3 expressions

Cyrauis“island”1 mention

Off their coast (the Carthaginians say) lies an island called Cyrauis, twenty-five miles long and narrow across, accessible from the mainland;

chapter 4 ¶

Dia“island”1 mention

Odyssey (Greek)

"Then I saw Phaedra, and Procris, and fair Ariadne daughter of the magician Minos, whom Theseus was carrying off from Crete to Athens, but he did not enjoy her, for before he could do so Artemis killed her in the island of Dia on account of what Bacchus had said against her.

chapter 11 ¶

island1 mention

Nicocles or the Cyprians (Greek)

I calmed and appeased both parties by assisting the King zealously and by treating the islanders justly.

nicocles or the cyprians ¶

in the texts

The HistoriesClassical · Greek

A landform near Plataea created by the divided channels of the river Oeroe, daughter of Asopus, to which the Greek council plans to withdraw for water and safety from the cavalry.

So they resolved in their council that if the Persians held off through that day from giving battle, they would go to the Island.

chapter 9 ¶

Furthermore, they resolved that when they had come to that place, which is encircled by the divided channels of Asopus ' daughter Oeroe as she flows from Cithaeron, they would in that night send half of their army to Cithaeron, to remove their followers who had gone to get the provisions;

chapter 9 ¶

It is like an island on dry land because the river in its course down from Cithaeron into the plain is parted into two channels, and there is about three furlongs space in between till presently the two channels unite again, and the name of that river is Oeroe, who (as the people of the country say) was the daughter of Asopus.

chapter 9 ¶

OdysseyClassical · Greek

Island where Artemis kills Ariadne before she reaches Athens.

"Then I saw Phaedra, and Procris, and fair Ariadne daughter of the magician Minos, whom Theseus was carrying off from Crete to Athens, but he did not enjoy her, for before he could do so Artemis killed her in the island of Dia on account of what Bacchus had said against her.

chapter 11 ¶

Nicocles or the CypriansClassical · Greek

The island community surrounding Nicocles' rule, initially hostile but appeased by just treatment.

I calmed and appeased both parties by assisting the King zealously and by treating the islanders justly.

nicocles or the cyprians ¶

Furthermore, though the inhabitants of the island were hostile to me, and the Great King, while outwardly reconciled, was really in an ugly mood,

nicocles or the cyprians ¶