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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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Its gems and intaglio works in gold are known to us from the finds at Mycenae, and at analogous sites, such as Menidi, Vaphio and Ialysus.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various

At the time when Demetrius attacked the city of Rhodes, Protogenes was painting a picture of Ialysus.

From The Pleasures of Life by Lubbock, John, Sir

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

Aristomenes goes to Damagetus the Eratid, prince of Ialysus; the Lacedæmonians give Mothone to the expelled Nauplians.

From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Müller, Karl Otfried

This coincidence has been observed not only at Cnossus, but previously, in connexion with discoveries of scarabs and other Egyptian objects made at Mycenae, Ialysus, Vaphio, &c.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

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