Island of Ares

An island in the Euxine (Black Sea) which was known as Enyalios until the Argonauts renamed it.

When the Argonauts approached the island they were attacked by the fierce birds which protected the island by dropping their arrow-like feathers on the sailors; the Argonauts used a trick similar to the one Herakles (Heracles) invented during his Sixth Labor (when he drove off the Stymphalian Birds), where he used krotalon (castanet-like clappers) to frighten the birds away; the Argonauts put on their plumed helmets and pounded on their shields with their swords; the movement of the plumes and the noise from the clanging shields frightened the war-birds away and the Argo was able to land on the island with only one sailor, Oileus, being wounded by the deadly feathers.

• Argonautika, book 3, lines 320-366

Island of the Sun -The island where Helios (the Sun) kept his oxen, i.e. Sicily.