Gyaros (island)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: J. Bennet, G. Reger Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: J. Bennet, G. Reger Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Aug 28, 2019 05:51 PM
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History
Gyaros is an island in the Aegean Sea, located to the south of Andros. The geographer Strabo visited the island in 29 B.C.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/589797
37.598103, 24.682578
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Gyaros Ins. (modern)
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- Gyaros (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Γύαρος (Gyaros: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Gyarus (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Nísos Gýaros (Modern Greek)
- Gyaros (island) located in Aegaeum Mare (unspecified date range)
- Gyaros (island) connection Cyclades Islands (unspecified date range)
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island
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 60 A4 Gyaros Ins.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Gyalos
In the Aeneid, Virgil relates the story that Apollo anchored the island to Delos to Gyaros and Mykonos to prevent it from wandering.
J. Bennet, G. Reger, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Brady Kiesling, R. Talbert, and Tom Elliott, 'Gyaros (island): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2019 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/589797> [accessed: 22 September 2023]
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