Eleusa
Ἐλεοῦσσα
Eleusa or ELEUSSA (Ἐλεοῦσσα).
1.
An island opposite cape Astypalaea, off the western coast of Attica. (Strab. ix. p.398.)
2.
An island named by Pliny, along with eight others, as lying opposite the promontory Spiraeum, which separated the territories of Corinth and Epidaurus. There are several small islands opposite this promontory, one of which is now called Laoussa, probably a corruption of Eleussa. (Plin. Nat. 4.12. s. 19; Boblaye, Recherches, &c. p. 65.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.