- Information
- city on Crete
- In
- 🌍 Crete (island)
- Founded by
- 👤 Minos 👤 Cydon
- Founded from
- 🌍 Tegea (Arcadia)
- Eponym
- 👤 Cydon
- Related Entities
- 👤 Athena 👤 Zeus 🌍 Crete (island) 👤 Minos 👥 the Lacedaimon Contingent at Troy (attackers) 🌍 Cape Malea (Laconia) 🌍 Tegea (Arcadia) 🌍 Gortyna (Crete) 🌍 Knossos (Crete) 🌍 Phaistos (Crete) 👤 Clymenos (Cretan) 👤 Cydon 🌍 Phrixa (Elis) 🏛️ the Temple of Cydonian Athena at Phrixa (Elis) 🌍 River Iardanos (Crete) 🏺 the Bow of Artemis
- Mentioned by
- 📖 Lycophron, Alexandra 930-950 📖 Pausanias 6.21.6 📖 Pausanias 8.53.4 📖 Homer, Odyssey 3.276-3.303 📖 Callimachus, Hymn to Artemis 41-86 📖 Strabo 10.4.8 ⚒️ Parian Chronicle (Ashmolean 449945; IG XII, 5, 444; PHI 77668)
- Mentioned in Text
- Lycophron, Alexandra Homer, Odyssey Pausanias Strabo Callimachus, Hymn to Artemis
- Relevant to local traditions reported from
- 🌍 Tegea (Arcadia)
- Reported to have local traditions about
- 🌍 Mount Dicte (Crete) 👤 Minos 👤 Britomartis 👤 Dictynna (Cretan) 🌍 Omphalian Plain (Crete) 🏺 the Umbilical Cord of Zeus 🌍 Mount Dicte (W. Crete) 🌍 the Sanctuary of Dictynna (Crete)
- Local traditions reported by
- 📖 Callimachus, Hymn to Zeus 42-54 📖 Callimachus, Hymn to Artemis 183-224 📖 Strabo 10.4.12