Aigilips (in the plural) is the collective name for the string of isles known in classical times as the Elaphites. These hug a stretch of the mainland from NERITON (Peljesac Peninsula) to Dubrovnik Olipa, Jakljan, Sipan, Ruda, Lopud, Kolocõep and Lokrum

II; 631:
And Odysseus led the great-souled Cephallenians that held Ithaca and Neritum, covered with waving forests, and that dwelt in Crocyleia and rugged Aegilips; and them that held Zacynthus, and that dwelt about Samos and held the mainland and dwelt on the shores over against the isles.

The Greek understanding of the name Aigilips is 'bereft even of goats', presumably, as the epithet 'rugged' suggests, because of the utter desolation of this string of isles. Such a meaning suggests, one might think, the classical name Elaphites, 'deer isles', (whence later Delaphodia and Latin Lafota, now Lopud).
> Name akin with that of AIGAI (Modra Spilja, Bisevo) ..
>In odyssey, Thrinakia, island of the kine of Helios will have been goats...


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Echinai (in the plural), is the collective name for a cluster of small islands lying south of Tenedos (Korcula). The name obeys, surely, to the innumerable jagged boulders immediately below the surface of the water lying all about this small archipelago, a threat to local navigation.

II; 625:
And those from Dulichium and the Echinae, the holy isles, that lie across the sea, over against Elis, these again had as leader Meges, the peer of Ares, even the son of Phyleus, dear to Zeus, begat—he that of old had gone to dwell in Dulichium in wrath against his father.

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XIII; 17, et pas.:
Forthwith then he [Poseidon] went down from the rugged mount, [Samos wooded Thrace-like] striding forth with swift footsteps... Thrice he strode in his course, and with the fourth stride he reached his goal, even Aegae, where was his famous palace builded in the depths of the mere, golden and gleaming, imperishable for ever.

There is a wide cavern in the depths of the deep mere, midway between Tenedos and rugged Imbros. There Poseidon, the Shaker of Earth, stayed his horses...
Poseidon's strides—a sunset exactly due west, hence that of an equinox—are like a path of light reflected of the surface of the water, appearing to touch tips of the out-lying islands like stepping stones—

1st stride:	right foot on Samos	-summit of Sveti Ilija
2nd stride:	left foot on Tenedos	-northern tip of Korcula
3rd stride:	right foot on Lemnos	-southern tip of Vis
4th stride:	left foot on Aigai:	-grotto Modra Spilja

However, that there is 'a wide cavern in the depths of the deep mere, midway between Tenedos and rugged Imbros' refers to the fact that, as the sun sinks below the horizon, it will appear to have come to rest at a place in the sea midway between Tenedos (Korcula) and Imbros (Bisevo).

DESCRIPTION OF THE LUNAR CYCLE

In the Iliad, the lunar cycle is reckoned from Full Moon to Full Moon (29.5 days) such that the 1st day of Full Moon is the 30th of the previous cycle, rising in the east at sun-down. In the course of the moon's cycle it's phases evolve thus:

Full Moon	(4th quarter)
Light/Dark	1st quarter
New Moon	2nd quarter
Dark/Light	3rd quarter
Full Moon	4th quarter

Like the sun, the moon rises in the east and sets in the west, though it gains upon itself along its orbit in a backward, retrograde motion, such that it appears to rise a little later every day. Hence the account of Hera's soujourn on Lemnos (Vis) and then Imbros (Bisevo)—the retrograde motion from west to east—is a description of the lunar cycle from the New Moon in the 2nd quarter over the course of 15 days to a Full Moon in the 4th quarter, such that Hera and Hypnos, as if in a love embrace, correspond with the light and dark sides of the 3rd quarter moon:

XIV; 280:
But when she [Hera] had sworn and made an end of the oath, the twain left the cities of Lemnos and Imbros, and clothed about in mist went forth, speeding swiftly on their way. To many-fountained Ida they came, the mother of wild creatures, even to Lectum, where first they left the sea; and the twain fared on over the dry land, and the topmost forest quivered beneath their feet.

The scene ends with an alignment of LEMNOS (Vis) and IMBROS (Bisevo) with LEKTON (Hvar) and GARGAROS (Sveti Ilija, Biokovo).


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XIV; 283:
To many-fountained Ida they [Hera and Hypnos] came, the mother of wild creatures, even to Lectum, where first they left the sea; and the twain fared on over the dry land, and the topmost forest quivered beneath their feet. There Hypnos did halt, or ever the eyes of Zeus beheld him...
The name of Lekton does not appear in modern recensions of the Odyssey, though its presence in the original text may be inferred with a reasonable safety from the following (which some early editor did not understand and changed)—

iv; 670:
"… give me a swift ship and twenty men, that I may watch in ambush for him as he passes in the strait between Ithaca and rugged Samos [i.e., Lekton]".
and again in

iv; 845:
There is a rocky isle in the midst of the sea, midway between Ithaca and rugged Samos [i.e., Lekton], Asteris, of no great size…

That Hera and Hypnos—the light and dark halves of the 3rd quarter moon—came first to Ida and then Lekton, where, however, 'first they left the sea', suggests they will have done so from Hira (qv.), and obeys to the moon's retrograde motion.


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I; 590:
"Yea, on a time ere this... he [Zeus] caught me [Hephaestus] by the foot and hurled me from the heavenly threshold; the whole day long was I borne headlong, and at set of sun I fell in Lemnos, and but little life was in me. There did the Sintian folk make haste to tend me for my fall."

II; 722:
But Philoctetes lay suffering grievous pains in an island, even in sacred Lemnos, where the sons of the Achaeans had left him in anguish with an evil wound from a deadly water-snake. There he lay suffering; yet full soon were the Argives beside their ships to bethink them of king Philoctetes.

VII; 465:
...and the sun set, and the work of the Achaeans was accomplished; and they slaughtered oxen throughout the huts and took supper. And ships full many were at hand from Lemnos, bearing wine, sent forth by Jason's son, Eunes, whom Hypsipyle bare to Jason, shepherd of the host.

VIII; 221:
"Fie, ye Argives, [says Agamemnon] base things of shame, fair in semblance only! Whither are gone our boastings, when forsooth wedeclared that we were bravest, the boasts that when ye were in Lemnos ye uttered vaingloriously as ye ate abundant flesh of straight-horned kine and drank bowls brim full of wine..."

XXI; 40:
For that time had he sold him into well-built Lemnos, bearing him thither on his ships, and the son of Jason had given a price for him; but from thence a guest-friend had ransomed him—and a great price he gave—even Etion of Imbros, and had sent him unto goodly Arisbe...

XXIV; 751:
"For of other sons of mine [Hecabe's] whomsoever he took would swift-footed Achilles sell beyond the unresting sea, unto Samos and Imbros and Lemnos, shrouded in smoke..."

Lemnos, lying westward in a straight line from SAMOS (Sveti Ilija, Peljesac), was inhabited by the SINTIES, a sinister sort of folk.

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IX; 128:
"And I [Agamemnon] will give [to Achilles] seven women skilled in goodly handiwork, women of Lesbos, whom on the day when himself took well-built Lesbos I chose me from out the spoil, and that in beauty surpass all women folk."

XXIV; 543:
And of thee, old sire, we hear that of old thou wast blest; how of all that toward the sea Lesbos, the seat of Macar, encloseth, and Phrygia in the upland, and the boundless Hellespont, over all these folk, men say, thou, old sire, wast preeminent by reason of thy wealth and thy sons.

LESBOS was inhabited by the LESBIDES (and not necessarily so by lesbians, which is altogether another thing), and had two towns, AIPEIA (Milna) at the west end, and SKYROS (Pusica) at the east.


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TENEDOS (island): Corcyra Melaina, Korcula
I; 37:
"Hear me [Chryses], thou of the silver bow, who dost stand over Chryse and holy Cilla, and dost rule mightily over Tenedos, thou Sminthian..."

XI; 624:
And for them fair-tressed Hecamede mixed a potion, she that old Nestor had taken from out of Tenedos, when Achilles sacked it, the daughter of great-hearted Arsinous.

Tenedos had a town at either end: ANTHEIA [ANTREIA] (Vela Luka) in the west, and KROKYLEIA (Korcula) in the northeast. Tenedos was of enormous logistical importance to the success of Agamemnon's endeavour (whose camp lay across the straight at Orebic), for it was here, one must think, that ships were refurbished and made new again during the long wait before launching a final naval assault on the mainland proper.
It was here that Philoctetes of Meliboia was bitten on the foot by a poisonous snake, and because of his wound lay in grievous suffering on the island of Lemnos (Vis). quote
The irony of this story is that Philoctetes himself came from a land of magicians and healers, and that, if for some reason or other he knew not how to treat himself, old Hecamede, a Tenedian knowledgeable in mixing at least one hundred different potions, refused him aid.
Towards the end of the Trojan War it was a certain Sinis who hatched the evil plan of building a boat with a horse-head prow and a tail-like rudder. It was built on Tenedos and sailed around Neriton (Peljesac), past the Hellespontos (Neretva's delta), as far up-stream the Skamandros (Neretva) as the sandy banks immediately below Kallikolone (Gabela, Stari Grad). Everyone knows the rest of the story, though details vary.
The boat-building tradition on Tenedos has been preserved throughout the ages to this day: the now legendary corsair, of just a few centuries ago, took its name from Corcyra.

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II; 631:
And Odysseus led the great-souled Cephallenians that held Ithaca and Neritum, covered with waving forests, and that dwelt in Crocyleia and rugged Aegilips; and them that held Zacynthus, and that dwelt about Samos and held the mainland and dwelt on the shores over against the isles.

The name of Zakynthos, meaning 'very dog-like', has a bearing on the name of the Sminthies, meaning 'mongooses', which roam wild over the island. Both are relevant, it would seem, to the curse—perhaps rabies?—laid by Chryses, priest of Apollo, on Agamemnon's forces. Pliny records in his Natural History (III, 26, 152), that, according to Kallimakhos, the Maltese terrier got its name from Meleda. Also, it is claimed locally, it was this island, and not Malta, where St. John was bitten on the hand by a snake.
Strabo-sminthos mouse
Skamandros - bebrykes

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