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Ialysus

American  
[ahy-al-uh-suhs, ee-al-] / aɪˈæl ə səs, iˈæl- /
Or Ialysos

noun

  1. an ancient Mycenaean city on the island of Rhodes.


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Protogenes, i, 149; his Works, and his famous picture of Ialysus and his Dog, i, 149; Protogenes and Demetrius Poliorcetes, i, 28, and i, 149; and Apelles, i, 25.

From Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 3 of 3) by Spooner, Shearjashub

Ialysus was, he said, one of their cities.

From History of Phoenicia by Rawlinson, George

His master-piece was the picture of Ialysus, the tutelary hero of Rhodes, where he lived.

From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by Haines, T. L. (Thomas Louis)

Picture of Ialysus and his Dog, Protogenes, i, 149, and i, 281.

From Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 3 of 3) by Spooner, Shearjashub

But Phorbas having met with shipwreck, he and Parthenia, the sister of Phorbas and Periergus, swam ashore to Ialysus, at the point called Schedia.

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us