Homer is most frequently said to be born in the Ionian region of Asia Minor, at Smyrna, or on the island of Chios, dying on the Cycladic island of Ios.

Of these the most lofty and striking were Mimas and Corycus, in the peninsula which stands out to the west, facing the island of Chios ; Sipylus, to the north of Smyrna, Corax, extending to the south-west from the Gulf of Smyrna, and descending to the sea between Lebedus and Teos ; and the strongly marked range of Mycale, a continuation of Messogisin the interior, which forms the bold headland of Trogilium or Mycale, opposite Samos.

Pythagoras was probably the source of most of books I and II, Hippocrates of Chios ( not the better known Hippocrates of Kos ) of book III, and Eudoxus book V, while books IV, VI, XI, and XII probably came from other Pythagorean or Athenian mathematicians.

He lived in abject poverty most of his life, and according to The Sephardic Community of Chios, is said to have fallen ill and died with his 10 companions on the island of Chios, in Greece, whilst travelling .< ref >

Memnon managed to capture the island of Chios and most of Lesbos.

Greek merchants endowed libraries and schools ; on the eve of the Greek War of Independence the three most important centres of Greek learning, schools-cum-universities, were situated in Chios, Smyrna and Aivali, all three major centres of Greek commerce.

Chios was one of the original twelve member states of the Ionian League.

The 20th-century door includes the remains of the leaves from the original portal, executed by Staurachius of Chios around 1070 in Constantinople, with scenes from the New and Old Testament.

Both of his parents are of Greek descent ( Chios on his mother's side and Mani on his father's side ), and his family's original surname, " Zanetakos " ( Greek: Τζανετάκος ), was anglicized to " Zane " by his parents, who also raised him Greek Orthodox.

When the Athenians formed the Delian League Chios joined as one of the few members who did not have to pay tribute but instead supplied ships to the alliance.

Bupalus () and Athenis (), were sons of Archermus, and members of the celebrated school of sculpture in marble which flourished in Chios in the 6th century BC.

After 427, Methymna and Chios were the only members of the Delian League to remain self-governing and exempt from tribute, indicating the privileged position Methymna held within the Athenian Empire.

The family – whose members were given a status equal to a Prince of the Holy Roman Empire and later became hospodars – was founded by a late-Byzantine noble ( and merchant ) of Chios.

By 454, the Delian League could be fairly characterized as an Athenian Empire ; at the start of the Peloponnesian War, only Chios and Lesbos were left to contribute ships, and these states were by now far too weak to secede without support.

In 412 BC during the Peloponnesian War Chios revolted against Athens and the Athenians besieged Chios.

In the 4th century BC Chios was a member of the Second Athenian Empire but revolted against Athens during the Social War ( 357 – 355 BC ) and Chios became independent again until the rise of Macedonia.

Among Zeno's other pupils there were Aristo of Chios, Sphaerus, and Cleanthes who succeeded Zeno as the head ( scholarch ) of the Stoic school in Athens.

* The Social War or the " War of the Allies " begins between the Second Athenian Empire, led by Athens, and its revolting allies of Chios, Rhodes, and Kos as well as the independent state Byzantium.

It kept strong political and trade relations with the cities of Ancient Greece – Miletus, Athens, Corinth, Heraclea Pontica and the islands Rhodes, Chios, Lesbos, etc.

* Athens recognises the independence of Chios, Kos and Rhodes and makes peace with Mausolus of Caria.

In c. 357 BC, along with Chios, it severed its connection with Athens.

Catholic communities were already established in Greece since the 13th century ( Athens, Cyclades, Chios, Crete ).

There he met representatives from the neutral states of Egypt, Rhodes, Athens and Chios who were trying to end the war — they were trading states and the war was probably hurting trade.

Representatives of Egypt, Rhodes, Byzantium, Chios, Mytilene and perhaps Athens also met again with the Aetolians that spring.

Born in Paris, of Breton descent, after studying at the École Normale Supérieure he was sent to the French School at Athens in 1853, he directed some excavations in Chios, and wrote an historical account of the island.

1000 ), Nea Moni of Chios ( a pet project of Constantine IX ), and the Daphni Monastery near Athens ( ca.

Psara lies northwest of Chios, 22 km ( about 13 nmi ) from the northwestern point of the island of Chios and 150 km ( about 75 nmi ) eastnortheast of Athens.

Born in Chios, he studied Law at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and entered the Greek Foreign Ministry after graduation.

With Patriarch Jeremias ' influence seven schools opened in the late 16th century, in Athens, Livadia, Chios, Smyrna, Kydonies, Patmos and Yanina.

Ion of Chios was a witness for Aeschylus's war record and his contribution in Salamis.

Ptolemy, advised by his regent, the eunuch Pothinus, and his rhetoric tutor Theodotus of Chios, did not take into account that Caesar was granting amnesty to a great number of those of the senatorial faction in their defeat.

Located in front of the Temple of Apollo, the main altar of the sanctuary was paid for and built by the people of Chios.

He was granted this by Hypnos in order to constantly watch his beloved Selene, according to the poet, Licymnius Chios

It is also widely held by scholars that the island was not occupied by humans during the Middle Bronze Age ( 2300 – 1600 ), though researchers have recently suggested that the lack of evidence from this period may only demonstrate the lack of excavations on Chios and the northern Aegean.

As a result, Chios, at the end of the 7th century BC, was one of the first cities to strike or mint coins, establishing the sphinx as its specific symbol.

In the decades immediately preceding Macedon's domination of the Greek city-states, Chios was home to a school of rhetoric which Isocrates had opened, as well as a faction aligned with Sparta.

After the permanent division of the Roman Empire in 395 AD, Chios was for six centuries part of the Byzantine Empire.

After the Fourth Crusade, the Byzantine empire was divided up by the Latin emperors of Constantinople, with Chios nominally becoming a possession of the Republic of Venice.

Themistocles had many daughters, of whom Mnesiptolema, whom he had by a second marriage, was wife to Archeptolis, her brother by another mother, she became priestess of Cybele ; Italia was married to Panthoides, of the island of Chios ; Sybaris to Nicomedes the Athenian.

Eugène Delacroix's first great success, The Massacre at Chios ( 1824 ) was painted before he visited the Greece or the East, and followed his friend Théodore Géricault's The Raft of the Medusa in showing a recent incident in distant parts that had aroused public opinion.

The sole reign of Cleopatra was finally ended by a cabal of courtiers, led by the eunuch Pothinus, in connection with a half-Greek general, Achillas, and Theodotus of Chios.

In the spring, Constantine crossed the Ionian Sea, meeting the strategos of the imperial fleet on the island of Chios and was received by the Karabisianoi before proceeding to Constantinople.

Cyparissus was the son of Telephus, and his story is set in Chios.

This indefatigable traveler also tells us that Caerus was regarded as the youngest child of Zeus in a hymn by Ion of Chios ( ca.

In Greek mythology, Oenopion ( Ancient Greek:, Oinopion, English translation: " wine drinker ", " wine-faced "), son of hero Theseus or god Dionysus and princess Ariadne, was a legendary king of Chios, which was assigned to him by Rhadamanthys, and was said to have brought winemaking to the island.

The Erythraean Sibyl was the prophetess of classical antiquity presiding over the Apollonian oracle at Erythrae, a town in Ionia opposite Chios, which was built by Neleus, the son of Codrus.