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🌍 Mount Dicte (Crete)

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  • Information
    mountain on Crete associated with the birth of Zeus and Dictynna
    Sometimes conflated with
    🌍 Mount Dicte (W. Crete)
    Wikidata
    https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1225372
    Pleiades
    https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/589676
    In
    🌍 Crete (island)
    Place of birth of
    👤 Zeus (Olympian)
    Encompasses
    🏛️ the Dictaian Cave (Crete)
    Related entities
    👤 Rhea👤 Zeus (Olympian)👤 Adrasteia👤 Amaltheia👥 the Couretes (guardians)👤 Cronos👤 Ida🏺 the Milk of Amaltheia🌍 Mount Ida (Crete)🌍 Mount Dicte (W. Crete)🌍 Laconia (Peloponnese)👤 Labros (dog of Actaion)👤 Argiodus (dog)👤 Pasiphae (Cretan)🌍 Gortyna (Crete)👤 the Bull of Poseidon👤 Europe (Phoinician & Cretan)🌍 Crete (island)👤 Io🌍 Phoinicia🌍 Sarepta (Phoinicia)👤 Artemis🌍 River Amnisos (Crete)👤 Amphitrite👤 Aphrodite👤 Poseidon👥 the Nereids👤 Triton (sea god)🌍 Sidon (Phoinicia)
    Mentioned by
    📖 Apollodoros, Library 1.1.6📖 Apollodoros, Library 1.1.6-1.1.7📖 Callimachus, Hymn to Zeus 1-9📖 Callimachus, Hymn to Artemis 183-224📖 Diodoros, Library 5.70.1-5.70.6📖 Strabo 10.4.12📖 Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.138-3.252📖 Vergil, Eclogues 6📖 Lycophron, Alexandra 1283-1308📖 Vergil, Georgics 2.532-2.542📖 Vergil, Georgics 4.149-4.179📖 Callimachus, Iambi 12 = fr. 202-202a Pfeiffer
    Mentioned in text
    Apollodoros, LibraryCallimachus, Hymn to ZeusCallimachus, Hymn to ArtemisDiodoros, LibraryStraboOvid, MetamorphosesVergil, EcloguesLycophron, AlexandraVergil, GeorgicsCallimachus, Iambi
    Reported to be mentioned in text
    Callimachus, Hymn to Artemis
    Mentioned in citation of
    📖 Callimachus, Hymn to Artemis 183-224
    Relevant to local traditions reported from
    🌍 Cydonia (Crete)
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