Qualla: Skyros https://qualla.com/skyros en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:30 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Skyros https://qualla.com/skyros Skyros: Introduction https://qualla.com/skyros/ Odysseus came to Skyros looking for a hidden warrior. According to the myth, the young Achilles had been disguised among the women of King Lycomedes' court, his mother hoping to keep him from a war she knew would kill him. Odysseus, needing the greatest fighter of his generation, laid out gifts for the women and among them a sword and shield. When a feigned alarm sounded, one of the maidens reached for the weapons instead of the trinkets, and the disguise was over. From a bay on this island's east coast, the story goes, Achilles then sailed for Troy. Skyros has been keeping secrets like this since before history began.

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/c/m/skyros-wp/swcm-skyros-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Skyros: Where Heroes Came to Hide and Die https://qualla.com/skyros/ For a small island, Skyros carries an outsized share of myth. It was here, the legends say, that the hero Theseus met his end, hurled from a cliff by that same King Lycomedes. Centuries later the Athenian general Cimon conquered the island, claimed to have found the bones of Thes...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/c/m/skyros-wp/swcm-skyros-where-heroes-came-to-hide-and-die.mp3 0:06 2 full Skyros: Some Corner of a Foreign Field https://qualla.com/skyros/ In April 1915, a British troopship carrying the war poet Rupert Brooke anchored in the bay of Tris Boukes. Brooke never reached the Gallipoli landings he had sailed for. An infected mosquito bite turned to blood poisoning, and he died aboard a French hospital ship on 23 April, at...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/c/m/skyros-wp/swcm-skyros-some-corner-of-a-foreign-field.mp3 0:06 3 full Skyros: The Little Horses and the Carved Houses https://qualla.com/skyros/ Skyros breeds its own animal found almost nowhere else: the Skyrian pony, a tiny, ancient horse standing barely a meter at the shoulder, roaming the bare southern hills below Mount Kochila. The island's culture is just as distinct. Skyrian houses are famous for their dense carved...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/c/m/skyros-wp/swcm-skyros-the-little-horses-and-the-carved-houses.mp3 0:06 4 full Skyros: The Year the Island Nearly Emptied https://qualla.com/skyros/ Skyros has known catastrophe too. In the autumn of 1918, as the Spanish flu swept the world, it reached this island of roughly 3,200 people. The epidemic began on 27 October, and within thirty days it had infected nearly 2,000 islanders and killed around 1,000, nearly a third of ...

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