IMBROS (island)
Island off the northwestern coast of Turkey
- Kind of place
- Island
- People of myth here
- Eetion of Imbros
- Where
- 40.16° N, 25.83° E
The Cabeiri received especially prominent divine worship on the island of Imbros. Strabo 10.3.21 Imbros is on the Grecian side of the Aegaean Sea, near Thrace and Macedonia, close to Samothrace and Lemnos. Argonautica 1 ¶104 The island was formerly called Melamphylus, Anthemis, and Parthenia, and the river Parthenius was renamed Imbrasus. Strabo 10.2.17
Described in the sources
Miltiades traveled from this island to Athens, later fled to it with four of his ships, and was chased there by Phoenician forces. Herodotus 6.104.1 +2 The Pelasgi are said to have first colonized the area around Imbros, and the island was still inhabited by Pelasgians at the time of its capture. Herodotus 5.26.1 +1 The island contains a city that shares its name. Pliny, Nat. Hist. 4.23 ¶4 The river Ilisus washes the shores of the island. Pliny, Nat. Hist. 4.23 ¶4 Imbros is situated within the fifth climatic zone. Pliny, Nat. Hist. 6.39 ¶6 Samothrace is thirty-two miles distant from Imbros. Pliny, Nat. Hist. 4.23 ¶4 Lemnos is located twenty-two miles away from Imbros. Pliny, Nat. Hist. 4.23 ¶4 The island lies twenty-five miles from Mastusia in the Chersonesus. Pliny, Nat. Hist. 4.23 ¶4 Imbros is located in front of the mountain Athos, eighty-eight miles away. Pliny, Nat. Hist. 4.23 ¶4 Eetion, who freed Lycaon, is identified as a guest-friend from this island. Iliad 21 ¶4
Stories and history
Its total circumference measures sixty-two miles. Pliny, Nat. Hist. 4.23 ¶4 Otanes captured Imbros using ships taken from the Lesbians. Herodotus 5.26.1