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This page is part of the "tools" section of a site, Plato and his dialogues, dedicated to developing a new interpretation of Plato's dialogues. The "tools" section provides historical and geographical context (chronology, maps, entries on characters and locations) for Socrates, Plato and their time. By clicking on the minimap at the beginning of the entry, you can go to a full size map in which the city or location appears. For more information on the structure of entries and links available from them, read the notice at the beginning of the index of persons and locations.
Island of the Southern Sporades, facing Ephesus, and
city on this island (area 7).
Samos was part of the Ionian Confederacy, the Paniones,
grouping cities founded in Asia Minor by Ionians fleeing what was to become
Achaia, in northern Peloponnese,
were they had settled earlier on the southern coast of the gulf of Corinth
west of Sicyon, when the area was conquered by Achæans
who gave it their name (Herodotus' Histories,
I, 142-148).
Samos was the birthplace of Pythagoras.
