[Mykale] and Mykalesos, a name of a city.
[Named] after the fact that the Gorgons bellowed [muka=sqai] there.
*muka/lh kai\ *mukalhso/s, o)/noma po/lews. para\ to\ e)kei= muka=sqai ta\s *gorgo/nas.
The entry is wrong to suggest that Mykale and
Mykalessos (sic) were alternative names for the same place. Mykale (site of a famous seabattle of 479 BCE) lay on a promontory of
Karia, opposite the island of
Samos.
Mykalessos -- attacked and sacked by Thracians in 413 BCE (
Thucydides 7.29-30, strikingly concluding that "its people suffered calamities as pitiable as any which took place in this war": web address 1) -- was in Boiotia. Their ethnika were even more similar than their city-names: Mykalesios and Mykalessios; hence perhaps the confusion.
Stephanus of
Byzantium s.v.
Mykalessos cites
Ephorus (FGrH 70 F28) to the effect that there was another, Karian
Mykalessos;
Stephanus nevertheless has an entry for Mykale too.
As regards the etymology,
Stephanus has the one given here s.v. Mykale but has a
cow doing the bellowing s.v.
Mykalessos.
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