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MELDS (mod. Milo) , an island of the Aegean Sea (Cyclades group), at the S.W. corner of the archipelago, 75 M. due E. from the coast of Laconia. From E. to W. it measures about 14 m., from N. to S. 8 m., and its area is estimated at 52 q. m. The greater portion is rugged and hilly, culminating in Mount
ordinary rocks. The natural harbour, which, with a depthdiminishing from 70 to 30 fathoms, strikes in from the north- west so as to cut the island into two fairly equal portions, with an isthmus not more than i; m. broad, is the hollow of the prin- cipal crater. In one of the caves on the south coast the heat isstill great, and on the eastern shore of the harbour there are hot sulphurous springs. Sulphur is found in abundance on the top of Mount
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The harbour town is Adamanta; from this there is an ascent to the plateau above the harbour, on which are situated Plaka, the chief
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series of vases, of large size, with mythological subjects and orientalizing ornamentation (see GREEK ART, fig. 9), and also a series of terra-cotta reliefs.Though Melos inhabitants sent a contingent to the Greek fleet at Salamis, it held aloof from the Attic league, and sought to remain neutral during the Peloponnesian War. But in 416 B.C. the Athenians, having attacked the island and compelled the Melians to surrender, slew all the men capable of bearing arms, made slaves of the women and children, and introduced 500 Athenian colonists. Lysander restored the island to its Dorian possessors, but it never recovered its former prosperity. There were many Jewish settlers in Melos in the beginning of the Christian era, and Christianity was early introduced. During the " Frankish " period the island formed part of the duchy of Naxos, except for the few years (13411383) when it was a separate lordship under Marco Sanudo and his daughter. Antimelos or Antimilo, 5i M. north-west of Milo, is an uninhabited mass of trachyte, often called Eremomilo or Desert Melos. Kimolos, or Argentiera, less than r m. to the north-east, was famous in antiquity for its figs and fuller's earth (KcwAia yi), and contained a considerable city, the remains of which cover the cliff of St Andrews. Polinos, Polybos or Polivo` (anc. Polyaegos) lies rather more than a mile south-east of Kimolos. It was the subject of dispute between the Melians and Kimolians. It has long been almost uninhabited. See Leycester, " The Volcanic Group of Milo, Anti-Milo, &c.," in Jour. Roy. Geog. Soc. (1852) ; Tournefort, Voyage; Leake, Northern Greece, iii. ; Prokesch von Osten, Denkwurdigkeiten, &c.; Bursian, Geog. von Griechenland, ii.; Journ. Hell. Stud. xvi., xvii., xviii.; Excavations at Phylakopi ; Incr. gram xii. iii. 197 sqq. ; on coins found in 1909, see Jameson in Rev. Num. 1909, 188 sqq. (E. GR.) End of Article: MELDS (mod. Milo) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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