Histories

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.