Now Naxia; an island in the Aegaean Sea, the largest of the Cyclades, especially celebrated for its wine. It is about eighteen miles in length and twelve in breadth. It was also called Dia, Strongyle, and Dionysias. Here Dionysus is said to have come to Ariadné after she had been deserted by Theseus. (See Ariadné.)

It was colonized by Ionians, who had emigrated from Athens. After the Persian Wars, the Naxians were the first of the allied States whom the Athenians reduced to subjection (B.C. 471). The chief town of the island was also called Naxos. See Dugit, De Insula Naxo (Paris, 1867); and Tozer, Islands of the Aegean (Oxford, 1890). (Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, 1898)

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