Gyarus

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Gyarus, also called Gyaros, is a small Greek island in the Cyclades, a Greek island group in the Aegean Sea located south-east of the mainland of Greece. During the Roman Empire, it was most famous as a destination for exiles, many of them political offenders. Its most famous resident was Musonius Rufus, a philosopher sent there on a trumped up charge of participation in the Pisonian conspiracy. Musonius' pupil Epictetus frequently uses Gyarus as an example in his philosophical writings on exile. Gyarus is also mentioned in Cicero's letters to Atticus as a place the orator visited.