Melos

Melos (Ital. Milo), a Greek island, the most south-westerly of the Cyclades, 13 miles long by 8 broad, with 4200 inhabitants. The island is volcanic, and produces sulphur, salt, pumice-stone, stucco, millstones, and a little oil and wine. Amongst the ruins of the ancient city of Melos, and near its theatre, was found the priceless antique, the Venus de Milo, now one of the chiefest treasures of the Louvre. See VENUS.