Imbros
Imbros was a Greek island until it reverted to Turkish authority in the 1970's and is now called Gökçeada. According to Greek mythology, the palace of Thetis, mother of Akhilleus, king of Phthia, was situated between Imbros and Samothrace. The stables of the winged horses of Poseidon were said to lie between Imbros and Tenedos.
Homer wrote in the Iliad: In the depths of the sea on the cliff Between Tenedos and craggy Imbros There is a cave, wide gaping Poseidon who made the earth tremble, stopped the horses there
It is not clear whether Jason landed on the island or just sailed past. According to Apollonios Rhodios he says Thence did they row with eagerness over the depths of the black Sea, having on the one side the land of the Thracians, on the other Imbros on the south; and as the sun was just setting they reached the foreland of the Chersonesus
It is referenced in the following articles
The Odyssey and the Argonauts |