Ancient Lemnos

thumb|Philoctetes at Lemnos, on an Attic red-figure [[lekythos, ca. 420 BC (Metropolitan Museum of Art)]] Philoctetes ( Philoktētēs; , ), or Philocthetes, according to Greek mythology, was the son of Poeas, king of Meliboea in Thessaly, and Demonassa or Methone. He was a Greek hero, famed as an archer, and a participant in the Trojan War.

thumb|Herm of Hermes, Roman copy of a late 5th century BC original, the forefront inscription states the herm was made by Alcamenes and dedicated by Pergamios, Istanbul Museums.

thumb|right|Agamemnon, [[Talthybius and Epeius, relief from Samothrace, ca. 560 BC, Louvre]] In Greek mythology, the Cabeiri or Cabiri (), also transliterated Kabeiri or Kabiri, were a group of enigmatic chthonic deities. They were worshipped in a mystery cult closely associated with that of Hephaestus, centered in the north Aegean Islands of Lemnos and possibly Samothrace—at the Samothrace temple complex—and at Thebes. In their distant origins the Cabeiri and the Samothracian gods may include pre-Greek elements, or other non-Greek elements, such as Thracian, Tyrrhenian, Pelasgian, Phrygian or

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sculpture by Phidias

Poliochne, often cited under its modern name Poliochni (), was an ancient settlement on the east coast of the island of Lemnos. It was settled in the Late Chalcolithic and earliest Aegean Bronze Age and is believed to be one of the most ancient towns in Europe, preceding Troy I. Anatolian features of the earliest layers were affected by cultural influences from Helladic Greece, about the start of Early Helladic II, ca. 2500 BC.

former island in the Aegean mentioned in Greek mythology

thumb|240px|The ancient theater in Hephaistia

executed for witchcraft