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Aphrodite Apollo Ares Artemis Athena Atlas Coeus Crius Cronus Demeter Dionysus Gaia Hades Hephaestus Hera Hermes Hestia Hyperion Iapetus Mnemosyne Oceanus Phobos Phoebe Poseidon Prometheus Rhea Tethys Themis Uranus Zeus
Bacchus Ceres Diana Juno Jupiter Mars Mercury Minerva Neptune Pluto Venus Vesta Vulcan
Amun Anubis Aten Atum Babi Bastet Bes Geb Hapi hathor heqet Horus Isis Khepri Khnum Khonsu Maat Nephthys Nut Osiris Ptah Ra Seshat Seth Shu Sobek Thoth
Alfheim Baldur Freya Freyr Frigg Heimdallr Helheim Idun Jotunheim Loki Nerthus Njord Odin Thor Tyr
Aengus Arawn Badb Brigid Cailleach Ceridwen Cernunnos Cu Chulainn Dagda Danu Gwydion Herne the Hunter Lugh Medb Morrigan Neit Nuada Taliesin Taranis
Chalchiuhtlicue Coatlicue Huitzilopochtli Mictlantecuhtli Mixcoatl Ometeotl Quetzalcoatl Tezcatlipoca Tlaloc Tonatiuh Xipe Totec Xochiquetzal Xolotl
Amaterasu Ame no Uzume Benzaiten Bishamonten Daikokuten Ebisu Fujin Fukurokuju Inari Izanagi Kagutsuchi Raijin Susanoo Tsukuyomi
Caishen Cangjie Dragon King Eight Immortals Erlang Shen Fuxi Guanyin Hou Yi Huxian Jade Emperor King Yama Leizi Lu-ban Mazu Nezha Nuwa Pangu Shennong Sun Wukong Xiwangmu Yue Lao Zhong Kui
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Lesbos

Lesbos was a large island in the Aegean Sea, off the western coast of Mysia, Asia Minor. The only mythological tale I could find that was associated with Lesbos was that of Myrina, the Amazon queen of Libya, who seized the island with her warriors (Amazons). Myrina founded the city of Mitylene, which was named after her sister.

Historically, it was the home of several great lyric poets during the Archaic period: Terpander and Arion as well as Alcaeus and Sappho.

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Lesbos, Λέσβος.

Founder

Myrina (of Mitylene)

Rulers

Myrina.

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Lemnos

Lemnos

Lemnos was a large island in the Thracian Sea (northern Aegean). The island was famous in Greek myth because the Lemnian women ruled the island. At the time, Thoas ruled it. Thoas was the son of the wine-god Dionysus and Ariadne , daughter of Mino...

August 8th, 1999 • Jimmy Joe
Northern Aegean

Northern Aegean

The Northern Aegean islands are north and northeast of the Aegean, comprising of a number of large islands west of Asia Minor and south of Thrace.

August 8th, 1999 • Jimmy Joe
Myrina

Myrina

A Libyan Amazon queen. Nothing is known about Myrina, except in the account of Diodorus Siculus' Library of History (1st century BC). Her capital was in the city of Cherronesus, in Libya. According to Diodorus, Myrina lived in the time before Pers...

January 1st, 2002 • Jimmy Joe
Islands

Islands

Aegean Islands Other Islands Aegean Islands The Aegean Sea has a large number of islands, with Crete in the south being the largest island. The Aegean island also included several groups of islands such as the Northern Aegean, the Cyclades, the No...

August 8th, 1999 • Jimmy Joe
Cythera

Cythera

Cythera is the large island south of the Peloponnesus, and the easternmost island in the group of islands known as the Ionian Islands. Cythera is a cult centre of Aphrodite. One of her epithets was Cythereia ; Hesiod wrote: Her gods and men call A...

August 8th, 1999 • Jimmy Joe
Delos

Delos

Delos was a small island in the Cyclades, located between two larger islands, Rhenea and Myconus. It was probably called Asteria or Ortygia after Asteria, daughter of the Titans, Coeüs and Phoebe, and sister of Leto. Asteria was changed into a qua...

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Lydia

Lydia

Lydia was a region between Mysia and Caria, in Asia Minor. The region was named after Lydus, son of Attis. Lydia was the kingdom where Queen Omphale ruled, after the death of her husband Tmolus, who was king of Lydia. Omphale was a daughter of Iar...

August 8th, 1999 • Jimmy Joe
Chios

Chios

Chios is a large island, located west of Ionia, Asia Minor. In the Homeric Hymn to the Delian Apollo, Chios was described as being a rocky island. Oenopion was ruler of Chios when the giant hunter Orion became his daughter's suitor. His daughter w...

August 8th, 1999 • Jimmy Joe
Ionian Islands

Ionian Islands

The Ionian Islands are located on the western side of Greece, in the Ionian Sea. Only three islands had mythological importance, especially Ithaca, the home of the hero Odysseus.

August 8th, 1999 • Jimmy Joe
Cherronesus

Cherronesus

Cherronesus was the legendary city of the Amazons, located somewhere in western Libya. Most of the (scarce) details about the city came from Diodorus Siculus, a Greek historian in Sicily who flourished in the first century BC. Under the rule of th...

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