Ialysus or Ialysos (Greek: Ἰάλυσος), also Ialyssus or Ialyssos (Ἰάλυσσος), or Ielyssus or Ielyssos (Ἰήλυσσος), was a city of ancient Rhodes.
[1] Pliny the Elder did not consider it as an independent place at all, but imagined that Ialysus was the ancient name of Rhodes.
[2] Orychoma, the citadel, was situated above Ialysus, and still existed in the time of Strabo.
[4] The city is mentioned by numerous ancient authors, including Pindar,[5] Herodotus,[6] Thucydides,[7] Ptolemy,[8] Stephanus of Byzantium,[9] Ovid,[10] and Pomponius Mela,[11] Dionysius Periegetes,[12] and appears in the Periplus of Pseudo-Scylax.
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