Lesvos Culture #1
Art and culture, especially poetry, have been some of the most prosperous fields in which Lesvos has had an extremely active presence since the early antiquity. According to mythology Orpheus???s head and lyre were carried away by the sea to the coasts of Lesvos, after being executed by the maenads in Thrace. What is more, the myth insists that the amputated head kept on singing and providing the oracle near Antisa with its prophecies, while the lyre was hanging on the wall of the Temple of Apollona in Mytilene. Since the 7th century, apart from a great economic development, Lesvos enjoyed a substantial cultural and artistic blossom that few other places in the country ever relished. Even though Athens has always been the cultural centre of ancient Greece, the settlements of Lesvos significantly contributed in the creation of the ancient Greek civilization