An island in the northeastern Aigean Sea.
Lesbos had once been under Trojan influence, but that changed when the Achaians arrived. Achilles referred to Lesbos as the realm of Makar, a son of Helios, god of the sun. Achilles abducted a woman named Diomede from Lesbos and took her back to the Achaian encampment at Troy where she was obliged to share his bed.
| References: Homer, Iliad book 9, lines 129, 271, 664; book 24, line 544 Diodorus of Sicily, Library of History book 5.56.2 and 5.57.2 |