Samos

A Greek island in the eastern Aegean near the coast of Asia Minor. On Paul's return from his third missionary journey, his ship sailed from Trogyllium to Samos and on toward Miletus where Paul met the Ephesian elders for his famous farewell (Acts 20:15). The island was famous in antiquity as the birthplace of Pythagoras and home to the great Temple of Hera. The Roman general Mark Antony had spent winters there with Cleopatra a generation before Paul's voyage.