Histories

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.

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;

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.

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.

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.