Qualla: Antissa https://qualla.com/antissa en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:08 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/f/x/antissa-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Antissa https://qualla.com/antissa Antissa: Introduction https://qualla.com/antissa/ Photo credit Fallacia83, CC BY-SA 3.0. Legend says the head of Orpheus washed ashore here. After the great musician was torn apart, the story goes, his severed head drifted down the river Hebros and out to sea, still singing, until it came to rest on the shore of Antissa. The local historian Myrsilus recorded that a tomb marked the spot, and that around it the nightingales sang more sweetly than anywhere else on earth. Whether or not you believe a word of it, the tale fits this place. Antissa, on the rocky western tip of Lesbos near Cape Sigri, was a city steeped in music long before it was a ruin.

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/f/x/antissa-wp/swfx-antissa-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Antissa: Where Music Was Born https://qualla.com/antissa/ Photo credit Tedmek, Public domain. Antissa claimed the inventor of the seven-stringed lyre. Terpander, born here in the seventh century BC, is credited with expanding the instrument from four strings to seven and shaping the foundations of Greek music. For a small Aeolian city on the edge of the Aegean, this was n...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/f/x/antissa-wp/swfx-antissa-where-music-was-born.mp3 0:06 2 full Antissa: A City That Chose the Losing Side https://qualla.com/antissa/ Photo credit Fallacia83, CC BY-SA 3.0. Antissa had a habit of backing the wrong cause. In 428 BC it joined the revolt of Mytilene against Athens during the Peloponnesian War and fought off an attack by neighboring Methymna, only to be recovered by Athens once Mytilene fell. Decades later it sheltered the Athenian gene...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/f/x/antissa-wp/swfx-antissa-a-city-that-chose-the-losing-side.mp3 0:06 3 full Antissa: What the Sea Left Behind https://qualla.com/antissa/ Photo credit Katsiaryna Naliuka, CC BY-SA 3.0. The British archaeologist Winifred Lamb excavated Antissa for the British School at Athens, uncovering stretches of the city wall and Iron Age buildings, among them an apsidal structure from the deep past. The original island site is now tied to the mainland by a sandy isthmus, t...

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