Thera
place · 2 works · 3 mentions · 5 anchored passages
Calliste
in the texts
Pythian
The Aegean island (also called Calliste), settled by Euphemus's descendants and mother-city of Cyrene.
And having gone to share the home of the Lacedaemonians, in time they left to settle the island once called Calliste.
Thera the mother-city of great cities, the token which once, beside the out-flowing waters of lake Tritonis, Euphemus received as he descended from the prow, a clod of earth as a gift of friendship from a god in the likeness of a man.
But it is my part to sing of the lovely glory that comes from Sparta, where the Aegeidae were born, and from there they went to Thera, my ancestors, not without the gods;
The Histories
The Aegean island first called Calliste, settled by Phoenicians under Membliarus and later colonized and renamed by Theras.
As for the island Calliste, it was called Thera after its colonist.
These dwelt on the island of Calliste for eight generations before Theras came from Lacedaemon.
It was these that Theras was preparing to join, taking with him a company of people from the tribes;