Κύθηρα - Stephanos Ethnika

Κύθηρα OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

island

Entry #255
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 391.12 | Billerbeck: Κ255
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-23
Word count: 37
AI prompt: v1
Sources: Ἀριστοτέλης (Aristotle) fr. 521 Rose = fr. 527 Gigon
Entities: Κύθηρα (Cythera (Kythera)) [place], Κρήτη (Crete) [place], Κυθήρος (Kytheros (eponym)) [person], Φοίνικος (Phoenician / Phoinikos) [people], Πορφυρούσα (Porphyrousa (the 'purple-clad')) [place], Κυθήριος (Kytherians (inhabitants of Cythera)) [people], Κυθηρία (Kytheria (female eponym/person)) [person], Κυθηραία (Kytheraia (variant name of the island)) [place]
Etymologies: Eponym Person: from Kytheros the Phoenician (i.e. the island is named after Kytheros, a Phoenician).; Morphological Composition: it was called Porphyrousa because of the beauty of the purple things around it (i.e. named for purple/purple dye associated features).; Morphological Composition: the inhabitants are Kythérioi; also Kytheria applies to both the woman and the island. It is called Kytheraia (i.e. derived forms of the place-name).
Place: Kythira | 📍 Map
Source: e9783110219630_i0798.jpg
Edit

Κύθηρα, νῆσος πόλιν ὁμώνυμον ἔχουσα πρὸς τῇ Κρήτῃ, ἀπὸ Κυθήρου τοῦ Φοίνικος. ἐκαλεῖτο δὲ Πορφύρουσα διὰ τὸ κάλλος τῶν περὶ αὐτὴν πορφυρῶν, ὡς Ἀριστοτέλης. οἱ οἰκήτορες Κυθήριοι, καὶ Κυθηρία καὶ ἡ γυνὴ καὶ ἡ νῆσος. λέγεται Κυθηραία.

Kythēra: an island having a homonymous city, near Crete, so called from Kythēros the Phoenician. It was also called Porphyrōusa (“Purple Isle”) because of the beauty of the purple-fish (porphyrai) around it, as Aristotle says. The inhabitants are Kythērioi; and Kythēria is both the woman (fem. ethnicon) and the island. It is also said (sc. in the feminine form) Kythēraia.

Herodian overlaps

Stephanos excerpt (left) is aligned with matched Herodian passages (right). Colors indicate corresponding overlap spans.

Herodian 1.388

char LCS 62 (33.2%) · word LCS 12 (32.4%)

Stephanos

Κύθηρα, νῆσος πόλιν ὁμώνυμον ἔχουσα πρὸς τῇ Κρήτῃ, ἀπὸ Κυθήρου τοῦ Φοίνικος. ἐκαλεῖτο δὲ Πορφύρουσα διὰ τὸ κάλλος τῶν περὶ αὐτὴν πορφυρῶν, ὡς Ἀριστοτέλης. οἱ οἰκήτορες Κυθήριοι, καὶ Κυθηρία καὶ ἡ γυνὴ καὶ ἡ νῆσος. λέγεται Κυθηραία.

Herodian

…ίδωρος δὲ Τέγεστρον αὐτὴν καὶ κώμην οἶδεν »ἀπὸ Τεγέστρου κώμης καὶ τοῦ μυχοῦ ἐπὶ τὸν Ἀδρίαν στάδια ͵εκεʹ«. Τὰ εἰς 'ρον' ὑπερδισύλλαβα μακρᾷ παραληγόμενα προπαροξύνεται, Ἄμηρον ὄνομα ὄρους, ἄνδηρον τῶν ποταμῶν τὸ χεῖλος, Κύθηρα νῆσος πόλιν ὁμώνυμον ἔχουσα πρὸς τῇ Κρήτῃ ἀπὸ Κυθήρου τοῦ Φοίνικος. Φάληρον δῆμος καὶ ἐπίνειον τῆς Ἀττικῆς. Παυσανίας πρώτῳ περιηγήσεως Ἑλλάδος (c. 1, 2). καὶ πληθυντικῶς Φάληρα. ἔστι καὶ Θετταλίας ἄλλη πρὸς τῇ Οἴτη, ἣν Ῥιανὸς διὰ τοῦ 'α' γράφει, Φάλαρον λέγων καὶ Φάληρον διὰ τοῦ 'η'. …