Antissa
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Antissa () was a city of the island Lesbos (Lesvos), near to Cape Sigrium, the western point of Lesbos. The place had a harbour. The ruins found by Richard Pococke at Calas Limneonas, a little NE. of cape Sigri, may be those of Antissa. This place was the birthplace of Terpander, who is said to be the inventor of the seven-stringed lyre. According to the local historian Myrsilus of Methymna, local tradition held that the head of Orpheus had floated south from the Hebros after he was decapitated and floated south to land on the shore of Antissan territory: the spot was marked by a tomb where, a
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- Greece place.name
- Antissa
- Greece place.name_local
- Άντισσα
- Greece place.type
- community
- Greece place.image_skyline
- Orpheus' oracle.jpg
- Greece place.caption_skyline
- Orpheus' oracle near Antissa
- Greece place.periph
- North Aegean
- Greece place.periphunit
- Lesbos
- Greece place.municipality
- West Lesbos
- Greece place.municunit
- Eresos-Antissa
- Greece place.population_as_of
- 2021
- Greece place.population
- 823
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- Orpheus' oracle.jpg
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- 0800-00-00
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Antissa () was a city of the island Lesbos (Lesvos), near to Cape Sigrium, the western point of Lesbos. The place had a harbour. The ruins found by Richard Pococke at Calas Limneonas, a little NE. of cape Sigri, may be those of Antissa. This place was the birthplace of Terpander, who is said to be the inventor of the seven-stringed lyre. According to the local historian Myrsilus of Methymna, local tradition held that the head of Orpheus had floated south from the Hebros after he was decapitated and floated south to land on the shore of Antissan territory: the spot was marked by a tomb where, according to Myrsilus, the nightingales sang more sweetly than they did elsewhere.
Antissa exists nowadays as a village on Lesbos. Nearby the village is the cave of Orpheus. The village has an alternative old name, it is called "Τελώνια" which may be translated as sprite.
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