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Now, about this same time, Theras, a descendant of Polynices through Thersander, Tisamenus, and Autesion, was preparing to lead out colonists from Sparta [22.416,37.83] (inhabited place), Laconia, Peloponnese, Greece, Europe Lacedaemon.
Now, about this same time, Theras, a descendant of Polynices through Thersander, Tisamenus, and Autesion, was preparing to lead out colonists from Sparta [22.416,37.83] (inhabited place), Laconia, Peloponnese, Greece, Europe Lacedaemon.
[2] This
Theras was of the line of
Cadmus and was an uncle on their mother's side to
Aristodemus' sons
Eurysthenes and
Procles; and while these boys were yet children he held the royal power of
Sparta [22.4417,37.0667] (Perseus) Sparta as regent;
[3] but when his nephews grew up and became kings, then
Theras could not endure to be a subject when he had had a taste of supreme power, and said he would no longer stay in
Sparta [22.416,37.83] (inhabited place), Laconia, Peloponnese, Greece, Europe Lacedaemon but would sail away to his family.
[4] On the island now called
+Thera [25.433,36.4] (island), Cyclades, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Thera, but then
+Thera [25.433,36.4] (island), Cyclades, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Calliste, there were descendants of
Membliarus the son of
Poeciles, a
Phoenician; for
Cadmus son of
Agenor had put in at the place now called
+Thera [25.433,36.4] (island), Cyclades, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Thera during his search for
Europa; and having put in, either because the land pleased him, or because for some other reason he desired to do so, he left on this island his own relation
Membliarus together with other
Phoenicians.
[5] These dwelt on the island of
+Thera [25.433,36.4] (island), Cyclades, Aegean Islands, Greece, Europe Calliste for eight generations before
Theras came from
Sparta [22.416,37.83] (inhabited place), Laconia, Peloponnese, Greece, Europe Lacedaemon.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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