Lindus

Lindus was one of the most important towns of ancient Rhodes, on the island's eastern coast, and is named in Homer's Iliad among the Rhodian cities that fought at Troy. An independent city-state before the island's cities united to found the city of Rhodes in 408 BCE, it lost much of its population and political weight to the new capital but kept its religious standing through sanctuaries of Athena, said to have been built by Danaus and to have held paintings by Parrhasius, and of Heracles. It was the birthplace of Cleobulus, one of the Seven Sages of Greece, and the modern town of Lindos occupies the same site today.