Leader of the settlers Cadmus left on Calliste, whose descendants yielded the kingship to Theras when the Spartans colonized the island and renamed it Thera.1
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When Theras son of Autesion prepared to colonize the island then called Calliste, Pausanias says he hoped the descendants of Membliarus would of their own accord give up the kingship — and they did, taking into account that Theras' family went back to Cadmus while they were only descendants of Membliarus, a man of the people whom Cadmus had left on the island to lead the settlers.2
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