Milo

Milo or Milos (in Greek modern Μήλος) is a Greek island of the Aegean Sea pertaining to the archipelago of the Cyclades. It was known under the Antiquité under the name of Mélos (in Greek old Μῆλος/ Mêlos ).

Geography

Milo is located at the extreme south-west of the archipelago of Cyclades, to 120 km of the coast of Laconie. Of west in is, it measurement 23 km, against 12 km of north in the south, for a total surface of 151 km ². Most of the island east covered with hills of which highest, the mount Profitis Elias, culminates with 774 meters.

Following the example Santorin, it is a volcanic island of origin, as its mining attests some (Soufre, Manganèse, Bentonite, etc).

The principal port is Adámas, the Pláka capital.

History

See also: History of Cyclades

The island is populated as of the OJ With the Helladique Ancien, it sells Obsidienne with most of continental Greece, and even with Cyprus, the Crete and the Egypt. It is a major economic center of the Minoan Civilization.

Its principal city, also called Mélos, is founded by Sparte about the year 700 av. J. - C. After the medic Guerres, it refuses alliance with Athens. In 426 av. J. - C., it undergoes an attack which it constrained to pay the tribute Ligue of Délos, with height of fifteen talents. In 416 av. J. - C., it is again attacked by Athens and is overcome. On the instigation of Alcibiade, it seems, the Athenians kill all the men in age to carry the weapons and reduce in slavery the women and the children. This episode inspires with Thucydide its famous dialog of the Athenians and Méliens (V, 85-103), exposing the Realpolitik of Athens. It remains also a long time in the Greek memory like an objection against Athens.

Diagoras de Mélos, atheist famous at fifth century BC, is originating in Mélos. For this reason, Aristophane, in the Clouds , qualifies Socrate of “Mélien”.

In 1820, during excavations in the ruins of the old city, one finds in Milo a Venus statue to which it misses the two arms. It is famous the Venus de Milo , currently visible with the Musée of Louvre.

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