…Parium on the Sea of Marmara and…

729 BCE to 718 BCE

…Parium on the Sea of Marmara and to Thasos, a large, wooded island of the northernmost Aegean Sea.

The island had been colonized at an early date by Phoenicians, attracted probably by its gold mines; they founded a temple to the god Melqart, whom the Greeks identified as "Tyrian Heracles", and whose cult was merged with Heracles in the course of the island's Hellenization.

The temple still existed in the time of Herodotus.

An eponymous Thasos, son of Phoenix (or of Agenor, as Pausanias reported) was said to have been the leader of the Phoenicians, and to have given his name to the island.

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