Mycŏnos

(or e), one of the Cyclades between Delos and Icaria, which received its name from Myconus, an unknown person. It is about three miles at the east of Delos, and is 36 miles in circumference. It remained long uninhabited on account of the frequent earthquakes to which it was subject. Some suppose that the giants whom Hercules killed were buried under that island, whence arose the proverb of everything is under Mycone , applied to those who treat of different subjects under one and the same title, as if none of the defeated giants had been buried under no other island or mountain about Mycone. Strabo observes, and his testimony is supported by that of modern travellers, that the inhabitants of Mycone became bald very early, even at the age of 20 or 25, from which circumstance they were called, by way of contempt, the bald heads of Mycone . Pliny says that the children of the place were always born without hair. The island was poor, and the inhabitants very avaricious; whence Archil och us reproached a certain Pericles, that he came to a feast like a Myconian, that is, without previous invitation. Virgil , Æneid , bk. 3 , li. 76 .— Strabo , bk. 10 .— Pliny , bk. 11 , ch. 37 ; bk. 12 , ch. 7 ; bk. 14 , ch. 1 .— Athenæus , bk. 1 .— Thucydides , bk. 3 , ch. 29 .— Mela , bk. 2 , ch. 7 .— Ovid , Metamorphoses , bk. 7 , li. 463 .