Lindus

Lindus or Lindos (Greek: Λίνδος) was one of the most important towns in ancient Rhodes [1]. In the Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad of Homer, Lindus, together with the two other Rhodian cities, Ialysus and Camirus, are said to have taken part in the war against Troy [1]. Previous to the year 408 BCE, when the city of Rhodes was built, Lindus, like the other cities, formed a little state by itself, but when Rhodes was founded, a great part of the population and the common government was transferred to the new city [1]. Lindus, however, though it lost its political importance, still retained religious importance, for it contained two ancient and much revered sanctuaries – one of Athena, hence called the Lindian, and the other of Heracles [1]. The former was believed to have been built by Danaus, or, according to others by his daughters on their flight from Egypt [1].