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Eressus was the birth-place of Theophrastus, and of Phanias, Peripatetic philosophers, disciples of Aristotle. Theophrastus was called Tyrtamus before his name was changed by Aristotle to Theophrastus, thus getting rid of the cacophony of the former name, and at the same time expressing the beauty of his elocution, for Aristotle made all his disciples eloquent, but Theophrastus the most eloquent of them all.
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AntissaTo the N. E. of Sigri. is next to Sigrium. It is a city with a harbour. Then follows Methymna, of which place Arion was a native, who, as Herodotus relates the story, after having been thrown into the sea by pirates, escaped safe to Taenarum on the back of a dolphin. He played on the cithara and sang to it. Terpander, who practised the same kind of music, was a native of this island. He was the first person that used the lyre with seven instead of four strings, as is mentioned in the verses attributed to him: we have relinquished the song adapted to four strings, and shall cause new hymns to resound on a seven-stringed cithara.
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The historian Hellanicus, and Callias, who has commented on Sappho and Alcaeus, were Lesbians.
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Near the strait situated between Asia and Lesbos there are about twenty small islands, or, according to Timosthenes, forty. They are called Hecatonnesoi,In which are comprehended the Arginusi mentioned above. a compound name like Peloponnesus, the letter N being repeated by custom in such words as Myonnesus, Proconnesus, Halonnesus, so that Hecatonnesoi is of the same import as Apollonnesoi, since Apollo is called Hecatus;According to Herodotus and Diodorus Siculus, Hecatonnesoi means the hundred islands, the word being composed not of Hecatus but of Hecaton, ἑκατὸν, a hundred, and νῆσοι, islands. for along the whole of this coast, as far as Tenedos, Apollo is held in the highest veneration, and worshipped under the names of Smintheus, Cillaeus, Gryneus, or other appellations.
