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3 unusual facts about Mytilene


Demagogue

First, after the failed revolt by the city of Mytilene, Cleon persuaded the Athenians to slaughter not just the Mytilenean prisoners, but every man in the city, and to sell their wives and children as slaves.

Irini Mouchou

Mouchou’s Greek sports clubs are ATLAS in Mytilene (ΑΤΛΑΣ Β.ΜΥΤΙΛΗΝΗΣ) and AIGALEO (Α.Γ.Σ. ΑΙΓΑΛΕΩ) in Athens.

Konstantinos Kenteris

Born in Mytilene, Kenteris, a student of physical education, started practising athletics at age 10, and started running seriously about ten years later, when he moved to Thessaloniki.


Gus Yatron

Gus Yatron was born in Reading, PA, to George H. and Theano Lazo Yatron, working-class Greek immigrants from the Greek city of Mytilene, of the island Lesbos.

Patriarch Gabriel III of Constantinople

In 1704 Gabriel formally condemned the edition of the New Testament into Modern Greek translated by Seraphim of Mytilene and edited in London in 1703 by the English Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts.

Rhodopis

Later on, she was taken to Egypt during the reign of Pharaoh Amasis (570–536 BC), and freed there for a large sum by Charaxus of Mytilene, brother of Sappho, the lyric poet.

Theaghenis Dhionysatos

Born in Mytilene, Dionysatos has spent most of his career with local side Aiolikos F.C., playing in over 100 matches in the third-tier of Greek football.

Yiorghos Manousos

Born in Mytilene, Manousos began playing football with local side Aiolikos F.C. in the Football League 2.


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