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I think the island was named for the lighthouse.Hard to tell which came first, the hen or the egg.
http://www.btinternet.com/~k.trethewey/pharos1.html
http://unmuseum.mus.pa.us/pharos.htm
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Pharos was the name of the island first. According to Liddle and Scott ( http://makeashorterlink.com/?T187144E) the island is mentioned by that name in the Oddyssey, long before the famous lighthouse was built. Bingley
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Thanks, Bingley. Old Odysseus sure was a lousy navigator, wasn't he. Twenty years to get home, and he hit every other port in the Mediterranean before he could find Ithaca.
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well.. dinosaurs were around a bit.. so I'd say the egg was first
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