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🌍 Cydonia (Crete)

  • <span class="a type-6581" data-type_id="6581" data-object_id="11296611" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-6581_11296611">📖 Callimachus, Hymn to Zeus 42-54</span><span class="separator"> </span><span class="a type-6581" data-type_id="6581" data-object_id="11296718" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-6581_11296718">📖 Callimachus, Hymn to Artemis 183-224</span><span class="separator"> </span><span class="a type-6581" data-type_id="6581" data-object_id="11309192" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-6581_11309192">📖 Strabo 10.4.12</span>
  • Information
    city on Crete
    Pleiades
    https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/589886
    In
    🌍 Crete (island)
    Founded by
    👤 Cydon👤 Minos (Cretan I)
    Founded from
    🌍 Tegea (Arcadia)
    Eponym
    👤 Cydon
    Related entities
    🌍 Tegea (Arcadia)👤 Cydon👤 Clymenos (Cretan)🌍 Phrixa (Elis)🌍 River Iardanos (Crete)👤 Zeus (Olympian)🌍 Crete (island)👥 the Lacedaimon Contingent at Troy (attackers)🌍 Cape Malea (Laconia)🌍 Gortyna (Crete)🌍 Phaistos (Crete)🏛️ the Temple of Cydonian Athena at Phrixa (Elis)🏺 the Bow of Artemis👤 Minos (Cretan I)🌍 Knossos (Crete)👤 Athena
    Mentioned by
    📖 Pausanias 8.53.4📖 Pausanias 6.21.6📖 Homer, Odyssey 3.276-3.303📖 Callimachus, Hymn to Artemis 41-86📖 Diodoros, Library 5.78.1-5.78.4📖 Strabo 10.4.8📖 Lycophron, Alexandra 930-950⚒️ Parian Chronicle (Ashmolean 449945; IG XII, 5, 444; PHI 77668)
    Mentioned in text
    PausaniasHomer, OdysseyCallimachus, Hymn to ArtemisDiodoros, LibraryStraboLycophron, Alexandra
    Relevant to local traditions reported from
    🌍 Tegea (Arcadia)
    Reported to have local traditions about
    🌍 Omphalian Plain (Crete)🏺 the Umbilical Cord of Zeus👤 Britomartis👤 Dictynna (Cretan)🌍 Mount Dicte (W. Crete)🌍 the Sanctuary of Dictynna (Crete)👤 Minos (Cretan I)🌍 Mount Dicte (Crete)
    Local traditions reported by
    📖 Callimachus, Hymn to Zeus 42-54 📖 Callimachus, Hymn to Artemis 183-224 📖 Strabo 10.4.12
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