Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Theras.
In play
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Description of Greece
Pausanias
Pausanias' Spartan and Theran antiquities — Theras as guardian of the Eurysthenid twins who leads Minyan settlers to Calliste and gives the island his name.
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Histories
Herodotus
Herodotus recounts the Lacedaemonian colony on Calliste — Theras the Theban-Spartan founder whose name the island of Thera still carries.
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Theras
Mythical founder of Thera (Santorini) — the Spartan guardian who renamed Calliste after himself when the Minyans settled the island.