The airport code for Mytilene International Airport is MJT.

Mytilene is the capital city of Lesbos (formerly known as Lesbos but the modern name is Mytilene), a Greek island in the Aegean Sea

Monica Vasileiou was born in 1936, in Mytilene, Greece.

Carl Deloro was born on March 15, 1891, in Mytilene, Greece.

Alexander the Great

Aristotle went with his family to Mytilene. Then, one or two years later, he was summoned to his native Stagira by King Philip II of Macedon to become the tutor of Alexander the Great, who was then 13.

G A de Wit is best known for his work as a Dutch author and expert on competitive intelligence, strategy, and business analysis. He has written several books on these topics, including "Strategy: An Introduction to Game Theory" and "Successful Competitive Intelligence."

Much Ado About Nothing is set on the island of Sicily. All of the history plays, plus Cymbeline, King Lear, and The Merry Wives of Windsor take place in England, and Macbeth takes place in Scotland, all of which are in the British Isles. Elsinore Castle where Hamlet is set is also on an island. Part of Pericles is set in Mytilene which is on the island of Lesbos. The Tempest is also set on an unnamed island. That makes eighteen plays, almost half of all the plays Shakespeare wrote.

The founder of Epicureanism is Epicurus, an ancient Greek philosopher who lived from 341-270 BCE. He founded the school of philosophy known as Epicureanism, which emphasizes the pursuit of pleasure and tranquility as the highest good.

Shakespeare could not possibly care less about the "unities" if he had never heard of them, and perhaps he never did. Some of his most famous offences against the "unities" are:

Unity of Time: The play is supposed to take place during one day. The Winter's Tale starts off when Hermione is pregnant with Perdita; in Act IV we jump forward sixteen years by which time Perdita is a young woman.

Unity of Place: The play is all supposed to take place in one place: Pericles takes place in Antioch, Tyre, Tarsus, Pentapolis, Ephesus, and Mytilene: six different Greek cities. It also occupies even more time than The Winter's Tale.

Unity of Action: There is supposed to be only one plot without subplots. A Midsummer Night's Dream has no less than four intertwining plots.

Clearly, Shakespeare had no interest whatsoever in the conventions of Greek Theatre as understood by the Classical scholars of the renaissance. And why should he? What is most remarkable is how frequently critics and scholars try to shoehorn his plays into those conventions (particularly those having to do with Tragic Heroes).

Caesar was a daring soldier and general. He received the civic crown (corona civica, a chaplet of common oak leaves woven to form a crown) which was the second highest Roman military decoration and was awarded to soldiers who by their courage saved the lives their commanders under fire. He was awarded the crown during the siege of Mytilene when he served in the army in Greece as a young man. This was a highly prestigious award.

As a commander Caesar often used daring tactics and fought when the odds seemed against him or when he was outnumbered. He effectively declared war on the forces on the Roman senate and, thus, of the Roman state when he refused to obey an order to disband his legions and crossed the River Rubicon. This river was the boundary between the Roman province of Gallia Cisalpina (in northern Italy) and Italia. As the governor of Gallia Cisalpina, Caesar was entitled to have his own troops there, but not in Italia, as this province was not under his jurisdiction. He marched on Rome and started the Great Roman Civil War. In the battles he fought in this war he was greatly outnumbered (15,000 v. 67,000 at Illerda, 15,000 v. 45,000 at Dyrrachium, 29-34,000 v. 49-52,000 at Pharsalus, 15,500 v. 32,000 at Ruspina and 40,000 v. 70,000 at Munda). He was also trapped in the lighthouse of Alexandria by the Egyptian army and he escaped by swimming his way to safety. In addition, he often jumped into the battle lines to urge his soldiers on, rather than stay behind the lines as most generals did. This took courage because his general's cloak made him a target for enemy javelins.

After the Persian invasion of Greece was turned back in 479 BCE under the leadership of Sparta, Athens took over leadership of the city-states in Asia Minor which had been liberated from Persian rule and formed them into the Delian League as a defensive alliance. After 30 years of failed attempts to reclaim the cities, Persia gave up and left the League to its own devices. Even with the threat gone, Athens continued to collect the annual tax which funded the League, by force where necessary, and spent the money on itself and on maintaining the navy which enforced the tax.

Athenian inscriptions show heavy casualties of its army each year, including years in which Athens was not fighting any war with its neighbours or Persia, so these arose from its annual tax enforcement. This enforcement went as far as assaulting, capturing and looting recalcitrant cities of the League, which Athens had converted to an empire. One city Mytilene had its people sold into slavery as an example to the others; the citizens of Samos were branded in the forehead to remind them not to revolt again.

The proceeds - originally to pay for the navy which protected them from Persia - were spent by Athens on beautifying its city (Parthenon etc) and putting half of Athens' citizens on its public payroll. And not satisfied with this empire, Athens started standing over cities of the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta, culminating with trying to bankrupt Megara, a member of that league. At the behest of the League, Sparta demanded that Athens back off, it refused, and all out war ensued.

Most of Shakespeare's plays take place in more than one place. But a lot of them take place, at least partly, in either England or what is now Italy (there was no such country as Italy in Shakespeare's day). Let's see how this pans out:

England: Merry Wives of Windsor, King Lear, Richard II, Richard III, Henry VI Part II, Henry VI Part III, Henry IV Part I, Henry IV Part II, Henry VIII and parts of King John, Henry VI Part 1, Cymbeline, and Henry V. (Nine whole plays and parts of four others)

Italy: Coriolanus and Titus Andronicus (Ancient Rome), Romeo and Juliet and the Two Gentlemen of Verona (Verona and partly in Milan), Much Ado About Nothing (Sicily), The Taming of the Shrew (Padua), The Merchant of Venice (Venice), parts of Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra (Ancient Rome), Othello (Venice), Cymbeline, All's Well that Ends Well (Florence), The Winter's Tale (Sicily) (Seven whole plays and parts of six others)

France: Love's Labour's Lost, and parts of King John, Henry VI Part 1, Henry V, and All's Well that Ends Well. (One whole play and parts of four others)

Greece: Timon of Athens, The Two Noble Kinsmen, A Midsummer Night's Dream, parts of Julius Caesar and Pericles (Mytilene). (Three whole plays and parts of two others)

Turkey: Troilus and Cressida (Troy was not far from modern Istanbul although it was more closely connected to Greece at the time), The Comedy of Errors (Ephesus, also a Greek city at the time), parts of Pericles (also Ephesus) (Two whole plays and parts of another)

And then the one-offs:

Cyprus: parts of Othello

Austria: Measure for Measure

Libya: parts of Pericles

Lebanon: parts of Pericles

Denmark: Hamlet

Egypt: parts of Antony and Cleopatra

Croatia: Twelfth Night, probably

Scotland: Macbeth

Czech Republic: Used to be called Bohemia, as found in The Winter's Tale, except that it has no seacoast. Maybe the Dalmatian coast was meant?

Plus, who knows where "the Forest of Arden" was supposed to be or where the mysterious island of The Tempest was. Somewhere near Malta maybe?

Amphitrite

-Triton

-Benthesikyme

-Rhode (possibly)

Aphrodite

-Rhode (possibly)

-Herophile the Sibyl (possibly)

Demeter

-Despoina

-Areion, the talking horse

Gaea

-Antaeus

-Charybdis

Hestia (wooed her unsuccessfully)

Aba, nymph

-Ergiscus

Agamede

-Dictys

Aethra

-Theseus

Alistra

-Ogygus

Alcyone

-Aethusa

-Hyrieus

-Hyperenor / Hyperes

-Anthas

Alope

-Hippothoon

Amphimedusa, Danaid

-Erythras

Amymone

-Nauplius

Arene

-Idas (possibly)

Arne / Melanippe

-Aeolus

-Boeotus

Arethusa

-Abas

Ascre

-Oeoclus

Astydameia, daughter of Phorbas

-Caucon

Astypalaea

-Ancaeus

-Eurypylus of Kos

Beroe (daughter of Aphrodite)

Boudeia / Bouzyge

-Erginus

Caenis

Calchinia

-Peratus

Canace

-Hopleus

-Nireus

-Aloeus

-Epopeus

-Triopas

Celaeno (Pleiad or daughter of Ergeus)

-Lycus

-Nycteus

-Eurypylus (Eurytus) of Cyrene

-Lycaon

Celaeno, Danaid

-Celaenus

Cerebia

-Dictys

-Polydectes

Ceroessa

-Byzas

Cleodora

-Parnassus

Chione

-Eumolpus

Chrysogeneia

-Chryses, father of Minyas

Corcyra, nymph

-Phaeax

Coronis

Diopatra, nymph of Mount Othrys

Euryale, daughter of Minos

-Orion (possibly)

Eurycyda

-Eleius

Eurynome (Eurymede), daughter of Nisos

-Bellerophon

Euryte / Bathycleia

-Halirrhothius

Halia

-Rhode (possibly)

-six sons

Harpale / Scamandrodice / Calyce

-Cycnus

Helle

-Almops

-Edonus

-Paion

Hermippe

-Minyas (possibly)

Hippothoe

-Taphius

Iphimedeia

-The Aloadae

Laodice

Larissa

-Achaeus

-Pelasgus

-Pythius

Leis, daughter of Orus

-Altephus

Libya

-Agenor

-Belus

-Lelex

Lysianassa / Anippe

-Busiris

Mecionice / Europa, daughter of Tityos

-Euphemus, Argonaut

Medusa

-Pegasus

-Chrysaor

Melantheia, daughter of Alpheus

-Eirene

Melantho (daughter of Deucalion)

-Delphus

Melia

-Amycus

-Mygdon

Melissa, daughter of Epidamnus

-Dyrrhachius

Mestra

Mideia

-Aspledon

Molione

-The Molionides

Mytilene

-Myton

Oenope

-Megareus of Onchestus (possibly)

Olbia, nymph

-Astacus

Ossa

-Sithon (possibly)

Peirene

-Cenchrias

-Leches

Periboea

-Nausithous

Pero, nymph / Kelousa, nymph

-Asopus (possibly)

Pitane, nymph / Lena

-Euadne

Phoenice

-Torone

Pronoe, daughter of Asopus

-Phocus

Rhode

-Ialysus

-Cameirus

-Lindus

Rhodope, daughter of Strymon

-Athos

Salamis, daughter of Asopus

-Cychreus

Satyria, nymph of Taras

-Taras (eponym of the location)

Syme

-Chthonius

Themisto

-Leucon (possibly)

Theophane

-The Ram of the Golden Fleece

Thyia

Tyro

-Pelias

-Neleus

Thoosa

-Polyphemus

Daughter of Amphictyon, unnamed

-Cercyon

Nymph of Chios, unnamed

-Chios

Nymph of Chios, unnamed (another one)

-Melas

-Agelus

Unknown consorts:

Amphimarus

Amyrus, eponym of a river in Thessaly

Astraeus and Alcippe of Mysia

Calaurus

Corynetes (possibly)

Cymopoleia

Cromus (eponym of Crommyon)

Geren, eponym of a town or village Geren on Lesbos

Dicaeus, eponym of Dicaea, a city in Thrace

Euseirus (father of Cerambus)

Ialebion (Alebion) and Dercynus (Bergion) of Liguria

Laestrygon, eponym of the Laestrygonians

Lamus, king of the Laestrygonians

Lilaea (possibly)

Messapus

Onchestus

Ourea

Palaestinus

Phorbas of Acarnania

Poltys

Procrustes

Proteus

Sarpedon of Ainos

Sciron

Syleus

Taenarus (possibly)

A Wreath was a symbol of honour in Rome. According to Conn Iggulden book Julius first earnt the wreath on the island of Lesbos, Greece during his days in the legion after he showed bravery when seizing a fort in Mytilene

Persia expanded its empire to what it thought were natural boubdaries - in the west to the Augean Sea.

In doing so it absorbed the Greek cities in Asia Minor and the Islands. These cities appealed to their mother-cities in mainland Greece, and the latter began intervening in what Persia regarded as its territory. When the Ionian cities revolted, Athens and Eretria intervened, ending up going too far in burning the Persian provincial capital of Sardis.

Persia responded with an attempt to capture the two cities and instal puppet regimes as a warning to the rest, and to keep those cities in check. The attempt failed, defeated at Marathon.

Persia then realised that the only way to keep the Greek mainland cities quiet was to absorb them all under local puppets with a Persian governor. This invasion in 480-479 also failed, and Persia was obliged to withdraw and eventuall accept the independence of the Greek cities in Asia Minor under a peace brokered in 449 BCE.