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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
    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, AlexandraHomer, OdysseyPausaniasStraboCallimachus, 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
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