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Modern Description: After a further 1.5 km, a track leads 500m uphill to the largest of the preserved Hellenistic towers on the island, just above Thymoniá Bay. This is an impressively wide construction, erected at the beginning of the 4th century BC, in carefully alternating bands of thicker and thinner ashlar masonry. It has a diameter of fifteen metres and stands to a height of over two metres. Its purpose will probably have been manifold: protection and supervision of the quarries along this coast; signalling and look-out tower; and garrison post for a small military detachment, all in one.

Info: McGilchrist's Greek Islands

(From McGilchrist’s Greek Islands, © Nigel McGilchrist 2010, excerpted with his gracious permission. Click for the books)

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