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Lesbos

NOUN
  1. an island of eastern Greece in the eastern Aegean Sea; in antiquity it was famous for lyric poetry

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  • An island of northeast Greece Aegean Sea off the coast of Turkey northwest of Lesbos.
  • Maroulis came back to Kea to revive a family farm and sail his soultana, a very rare traditional wooden boat he commissioned from a craftsman on the island of Lesbos. Dining with Dionysus
  • Samos and the shady hills of Ida, in Scyros and Phocaea and the high hill of Autocane and fair-lying Imbros and smouldering Lemnos and rich Lesbos, home of Macar, the son of Aeolus, and Chios, brightest of all the isles that lie in the sea, and craggy Mimas and the heights of Corycus and gleaming Claros and the sheer hill of Aesagea and watered Samos and the steep heights of Mycale, in Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
  • They may have chosen Lesbos for its Sapphic connections, but I doubt any of them are planning to read poetry this holiday.
  • After all, the word refers to the island of Lesbos, and we always capitalize place names.
  • The coats of arms of most of the royal houses of Europe incorporate symbols of the 12 Tribes of Lesbos.
  • It never failed to amaze her that the scholars about her could discuss the hetairai of the Greeks, Tristan and Isolde, Abelard and Heloise, and the loves of the girls on the Isle of Lesbos, and then blush with shame when one even mentioned the existence of certain establishments not more than a dozen blocks from the University. Red dust
  • The Ionian cities in Asia Minor and several of the island cities (Samos, Lesbos, and Chios) revolted from the Persians. C. The Rise of the Athenian Empire
  • A famous Greek poem by Alcaeus, the poet of Lesbos, describes a storm at sea so vividly that Classical scholars continue to argue whether or not Alcaeus was actually on board the vessel. Reinventing the Aztecs - part two Mexican history
  • Alcaeus were natives of Lesbos in Aeolia, and wrote in the Aeolic dialect The Illustrated London Reading Book
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