Cephalonia
Legend
!Excavations from Melissani in the [Archaeological Museum of Argostoli](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Melissani-exc.jpg/250px-Melissani-exc.jpg)
Legend
An aition explaining the name of Cephallenia and reinforcing its cultural connections with Athens associates the island with the mythological figure of Cephalus, who helped Amphitryon of Mycenae in a war against the Taphians and Teleboans. He was rewarded with the island of Same), which thereafter came to be known as Cephallenia.
Legend
Kefalonia is also referenced in relation to the goddess Britomartis, as the location where she is said to have 'received divine honours from the inhabitants under the name of Laphria)'.
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