Zacynthus
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the island of Zacynthus · the wooded island of Zacynthus · woodland island of Zacynthus
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Odyssey
The woodland island whose principal men are numbered among Penelope's suitors.
for the chiefs from all our islands, Dulichium, Same, and the woodland island of Zacynthus, as also all the principal men of Ithaca itself, are eating up my house under the pretext of paying their court to my mother, who will neither point blank say that she will not marry, nor yet bring matters to an end;
and not far from it there is a group of islands very near to one another - Dulichium, Same, and the wooded island of Zacynthus.
twenty young Achaeans from Zacynthus, and twelve from Ithaca itself, all of them well born.
History of the Peloponnesian War
An island lying opposite Elis, colonized by Achaeans and allied with Athens, invaded and ravaged by a Lacedaemonian expedition under Cnemus.
The Lacedaemonians and their allies the same summer made an expedition with a hundred ships against the island of Zacynthus, which lies over against Elis.
On board the fleet were a thousand heavy-armed of the Lacedaemonians, and Cnemus, a Spartan, as admiral.
These having been hauled over the isthmus of Leucas, and having so escaped the observation of the Athenian fleet at Zacynthus, reached Pylus;
The Histories
Greek island whose pitch-yielding pools Herodotus personally cites as a parallel confirming the plausibility of the reported gold-dust lake on Cyrauis.
Whatever falls into the pool is carried under the ground and appears again in the sea, which is about a half a mile distant from the pool.
for I myself saw pitch drawn from the water of a pool in Zacynthus.
The pools there are numerous;