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🌍 Crete (island)

📖 Pausanias 1.18.5 📖 Pausanias 2.30.3 📖 Pausanias 8.53.4 📖 Pausanias 1.27.9-1.27.10 📖 Palaiphatos, On Unbelievable Stories 31 📖 Lucian, On Sacrifices 10 📖 Lucian, Parliament of the Gods 6 📖 Lucian, Zeus Rants 45 📖 Callimachus, Hymn to Zeus 1-9 📖 Callimachus, Hymn to Artemis 183-224 📖 Lucian, Timon, or the Misanthrope 6 📖 Lucian, The Lover of Lies 3 📖 Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses 40
Information
island in the Aegean
Alternative name
🌍 Idaia (alt. Crete)
Pleiades
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/589748
Cult site of
👤 Athena 👤 Eileithyia 👤 Leto 👤 Britomartis 👤 Dictynna (Cretan) 👤 Menedemos
Place of conception of
👤 Minos 👤 Rhadamanthys 👤 Sarpedon (Lycian) 👤 the Minotaur 👤 Ploutos 👤 Philandros 👤 Phylacides
Place of birth of
👤 Eileithyia 👤 Zeus (Olympian) 👤 Miletos 👤 Minos 👤 Rhadamanthys 👤 Sarpedon (Lycian) 👤 Iphis (d of Telethusa)
Place of death of
👤 Ariadne 👤 Cleisithyra 👤 Cronos 👤 Deucalion (Cretan) 👤 Zeus (Olympian) 👤 Glaucos (Cretan) 👤 Meda (Cretan) 👤 Talos (Cretan I) 👥 the Titans 👤 the Minotaur 👥 the Earlier Athenian Tributes 👤 Tauros (rat. Minotaur) 👤 Orsilochos (Odyssean creation) 👤 Leucocomas 👤 Zeus (Cretan)
Place of burial of
👤 Catreus (eponym) 👤 Zeus (Olympian) 👤 Idomeneus (Cretan) 👤 Meriones 👤 Picus 👤 Zeus (Cretan)
Settled by
👥 the Peneios Contingent at Troy (attackers) part of the Greek contingentApollodoros, EpitomeMythography & HistoriographyApollodorosGreekEarly Imperial (ca. 31 BCE-79 CE)Middle Imperial (ca. 69-235 CE)Conon, NarrationsCononLate Hellenistic (ca. 150-30 BCE)👥 the Dorians of the Peloponnese post-Heraclid ReturnHomer, IliadEpicHomerGreekGeometric (ca. 900-700 BCE)Homer, OdysseyStraboGeographyStraboEarly Imperial (ca. 31 BCE-79 CE)EphorosMythography & HistoriographyEphorosLate Classical (ca. 400-330 BCE)🌍 Cyme Phriconis (Ionia) city in Ionia👤 Althaimenes (Argive) Dorian founder of cities on CreteHomer, IliadEpicHomerGreekGeometric (ca. 900-700 BCE)Homer, OdysseyStraboGeographyStraboEarly Imperial (ca. 31 BCE-79 CE)EphorosMythography & HistoriographyEphorosLate Classical (ca. 400-330 BCE)🌍 Cyme Phriconis (Ionia) city in Ionia👥 the Pelasgians ethnic collectiveHomer, OdysseyEpicHomerGreekGeometric (ca. 900-700 BCE)StraboGeographyStraboEarly Imperial (ca. 31 BCE-79 CE)👤 Delphos (Laconian) settles Melos and Gortyna with PollisConon, NarrationsMythography & HistoriographyCononGreekEarly Imperial (ca. 31 BCE-79 CE)Late Hellenistic (ca. 150-30 BCE)👤 Pollis settles Melos and Gortyna with DelphosConon, NarrationsMythography & HistoriographyCononGreekEarly Imperial (ca. 31 BCE-79 CE)Late Hellenistic (ca. 150-30 BCE)
Settled from
🌍 Argos (city) city in the PeloponneseHomer, IliadEpicHomerGreekGeometric (ca. 900-700 BCE)Homer, OdysseyStraboGeographyStraboEarly Imperial (ca. 31 BCE-79 CE)EphorosMythography & HistoriographyEphorosLate Classical (ca. 400-330 BCE)🌍 Cyme Phriconis (Ionia) city in Ionia🌍 Megara (Argolid) city on the Attica-Argolid borderStraboGeographyStraboGreekEarly Imperial (ca. 31 BCE-79 CE)🌍 Sparta (Laconia) city in LaconiaConon, NarrationsMythography & HistoriographyCononGreekEarly Imperial (ca. 31 BCE-79 CE)Late Hellenistic (ca. 150-30 BCE)🌍 Mount Pelion (Thessaly) mountain in ThessalyConon, NarrationsMythography & HistoriographyCononGreekEarly Imperial (ca. 31 BCE-79 CE)Late Hellenistic (ca. 150-30 BCE)🌍 River Peneios (Thessaly) river in ThessalyConon, NarrationsMythography & HistoriographyCononGreekEarly Imperial (ca. 31 BCE-79 CE)Late Hellenistic (ca. 150-30 BCE)
Named by
👤 Ammon (god) Egyptian god identified by the Greeks with ZeusDionysios ScytobrachionMythography & HistoriographyDionysios ScytobrachionGreekEarly Hellenistic (ca. 336-220 BCE)Diodoros, LibraryDiodorosLate Hellenistic (ca. 150-30 BCE)
Eponym
👤 Crete (w. of Zeus) wife of Zeus in DiodorosDionysios ScytobrachionMythography & HistoriographyDionysios ScytobrachionGreekEarly Hellenistic (ca. 336-220 BCE)Diodoros, LibraryDiodorosLate Hellenistic (ca. 150-30 BCE)👤 Crete (Hesperid) one of the HesperidesPliny, Natural HistoryGeographyPlinyLatinEarly Imperial (ca. 31 BCE-79 CE)Middle Imperial (ca. 69-235 CE)DosiadesMythography & HistoriographyDosiadesGreekEarly Hellenistic (ca. 336-220 BCE)👤 Cres eponym of Crete, son of ZeusPliny, Natural HistoryGeographyPlinyLatinEarly Imperial (ca. 31 BCE-79 CE)Middle Imperial (ca. 69-235 CE)AnaximanderMythography & HistoriographyAnaximanderGreekMiddle Classical (ca. 450-400 BCE)Late Classical (ca. 400-330 BCE)
Ruled by
👤 Asterios (h. of Europe) king of CreteApollodoros, LibraryMythography & HistoriographyApollodorosGreekEarly Imperial (ca. 31 BCE-79 CE)Middle Imperial (ca. 69-235 CE)Hesiod, EhoiaiEpicHesiodGeometric (ca. 900-700 BCE)HesiodBacchylidesBacchylidesLate Archaic (ca. 560-479 BCE)Early Classical (ca. 480-450 BCE)D-Scholia, IliadD-ScholiaLate Imperial (ca. 235-330 CE)Lycophron, AlexandraLycophronEarly Hellenistic (ca. 336-220 BCE)Middle Hellenistic (ca. 220-150 BCE)👤 Minos king of CreteHomer, IliadEpicHomerGreekGeometric (ca. 900-700 BCE)PausaniasGeographyPausaniasMiddle Imperial (ca. 69-235 CE)Hesiod, EhoiaiHesiodHesiodOvid, IbisOvidLatinEarly Imperial (ca. 31 BCE-79 CE)StraboStraboServius, Scholia on GeorgicsMythography & HistoriographyServiusLate Antiquity (ca. 306-610 CE)Vergil, GeorgicsVergilLate Hellenistic (ca. 150-30 BCE)⚒️ Parian Chronicle (Ashmolean 449945; IG XII, 5, 444; PHI 77668)Early Hellenistic (ca. 336-220 BCE)🌍 Paros (island) island in the Aegean, one of the CycladesExclude material sources that MANTO has not ascertained is held in accordance with UNESCO ConventionAshmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, OxfordΑρχαιολογικό Μουσείο Πάρου / Archaeological Museum of Paros, ParikiaOvid, MetamorphosesPliny, Natural HistoryPlinyConon, NarrationsCononApollodoros, LibraryApollodorosPlutarch, TheseusPlutarchCleidemos of AthensCleidemos of AthensLate Classical (ca. 400-330 BCE)🌍 Athens (Attica) city in Attica👤 Idomeneus (Cretan) son of Deucalion, leader of the Cretan contingent at TroyHomer, IliadEpicHomerGreekGeometric (ca. 900-700 BCE)Lycophron, AlexandraLycophronEarly Hellenistic (ca. 336-220 BCE)Middle Hellenistic (ca. 220-150 BCE)👤 Zeus (Cretan) brother of Ouranos and king of Crete in Diodoros' rationalizing accountDionysios ScytobrachionMythography & HistoriographyDionysios ScytobrachionGreekEarly Hellenistic (ca. 336-220 BCE)Diodoros, LibraryDiodorosLate Hellenistic (ca. 150-30 BCE)👥 the Couretes (guardians) guard the infant ZeusDionysios ScytobrachionMythography & HistoriographyDionysios ScytobrachionGreekEarly Hellenistic (ca. 336-220 BCE)Diodoros, LibraryDiodorosLate Hellenistic (ca. 150-30 BCE)👤 Father of Crete (name unknown) one of the CouretesDionysios ScytobrachionMythography & HistoriographyDionysios ScytobrachionGreekEarly Hellenistic (ca. 336-220 BCE)Diodoros, LibraryDiodorosLate Hellenistic (ca. 150-30 BCE)👤 Deucalion (Cretan) son of Minos, Argonaut, Calydonian boar hunterPausaniasGeographyPausaniasGreekMiddle Imperial (ca. 69-235 CE)Plutarch, TheseusMythography & HistoriographyPlutarchCleidemos of AthensCleidemos of AthensLate Classical (ca. 400-330 BCE)🌍 Athens (Attica) city in Attica👤 Ariadne daughter of MinosPlutarch, TheseusMythography & HistoriographyPlutarchGreekMiddle Imperial (ca. 69-235 CE)Cleidemos of AthensCleidemos of AthensLate Classical (ca. 400-330 BCE)🌍 Athens (Attica) city in Attica👤 Leucos (Cretan) king of Crete as steward for IdomeneusLycophron, AlexandraLycophronGreekEarly Hellenistic (ca. 336-220 BCE)Middle Hellenistic (ca. 220-150 BCE)
Conquered by
👤 Leucos (Cretan) king of Crete as steward for IdomeneusApollodoros, EpitomeMythography & HistoriographyApollodorosGreekEarly Imperial (ca. 31 BCE-79 CE)Middle Imperial (ca. 69-235 CE)
Relics preserved on site
🏛️ the Dancing Place of Ariadne (Knossos) 🏺 the Wooden Statue of Britomartis (Daidalian) 🏺 the Wooden Statue of Athena (Daidalian) 🏛️ the Cave of Eileithyia (Crete) 🏛️ the Tomb of Zeus (Crete) 🏺 the Bones of Orion 🏺 the Bones of Otos 🏛️ the Plane Tree at Gortyna (Crete)
Encompases
🌍 Mount Dicte (Crete) 🏛️ the Labyrinth (Knossos) 🌍 Gortyna (Crete) 🌍 Knossos (Crete) 🌍 Lyctos (Crete) 🌍 Miletos (Crete) 🌍 Lycastos (Crete) 🌍 Phaistos (Crete) 🌍 Rhytion (Crete) 🌍 Mount Aigaion (Crete) 🏛️ the Dancing Place of Ariadne (Knossos) 🌍 Amnisos (Crete) 🌍 River Tethris (Crete) 🌍 Mount Ida (Crete) 🌍 Cydonia (Crete) 🌍 Catreus (Crete) 🌍 Tarra (Crete) 🏛️ the House of Carmanor (Tarra) 🌍 Elyros (Crete) 🌍 Olous (Crete) 🌍 River Iardanos (Crete) 🌍 Heracleion (Crete) 🏛️ the Cave of Eileithyia (Crete) ⏳ the Funeral Games of Androgeos (Knossos) 🌍 Aptera (Crete) 🌍 Mount Arginous (Crete) 🏛️ the Dictaian Cave (Crete) 🌍 Thenai (Crete) 🌍 Omphalian Plain (Crete) 🌍 Mount Leuca (Crete) 🌍 River Cairatos (Crete) 🏛️ the Cave of Zeus (Crete) 🌍 River Amnisos (Crete) 🌍 Mount Dicte (W. Crete) 🌍 the Sanctuary of Dictynna (Crete) 🌍 Aigidocos (Crete) 🏛️ the Tomb of Zeus (Crete) 🏛️ the House of Rhea (Knossos) 🌍 River Triton (Crete) 🌍 River Theren (Crete) 🌍 Caino (Crete) 🌍 Tripolos (Crete) 🏛️ the Tomb of Idomeneus and Meriones (Knossos) 🌍 Mount Berecynthos (Crete) 🌍 the City near Mount Dicte (name unknown) 🌍 the Sanctuary of Britomartis at Chersonesos (Crete) 🌍 Leban (Crete) 🌍 Praisos (Crete) 🌍 Chersonesos (Crete) 🌍 Mount Tityros (Crete) 🌍 Hierapytna (Crete) 🌍 Praisos (Crete) 🌍 Rhaucos (Crete) 🏛️ the Temple of Leto at Phaistos (Crete) 🏛️ the Altar of Minoan Athena at Crete 🏛️ the Plane Tree at Gortyna (Crete)
Related Entities
👤 Acacallis 👤 Adrasteia 👤 Aerope (Argive) 👤 Aiacos 👤 Aigeus (Athenian) 👤 Alexander (Trojan) 👤 Althaimenes (Rhodian) 👤 Amaltheia 👤 Ammon (god) 👤 Amphitrite 👤 Androgeos 👤 Apemosyne 👤 Aphrodite 👤 Apollo 🏺 the Argo 👥 the Argonauts 👤 Ariadne 👤 Artemis 👤 Asterios (h. of Europe) 👤 Athena 👤 Atymnios (Cretan) 👤 Bateia (Trojan) 👤 Catreus (eponym) 👤 Cephalos (h. of Procris) 👤 Cleisithyra 👤 Cocalos 👥 the Corybantes 👥 the Couretes (guardians) 👤 the Cretan Bull 👤 Cronos 👤 Daidalos 👤 Demeter 👤 Deucalion (Cretan) 👤 Dionysos (Olympian) 👤 Eileithyia 👤 Europe (Phoinician & Cretan) 👤 Eurystheus 👤 Euxanthios 👤 Ge 👤 Hera 👤 Ida 🌍 Mount Dicte (Crete) 👤 Ouranos 👤 Poseidon 👤 Hades 👤 Rhea 🏺 the Milk of Amaltheia 👤 Themis 👤 Zeus (Olympian) 👤 Glaucos (Cretan) 🌍 the Underworld 👤 Heracles 👤 Iasion (s. of Electra) 👤 Idomeneus (Cretan) 👤 Iris 👤 Isis 👤 Jason (Argonaut) 🌍 Athens (Attica) 🌍 the Isthmos of Corinth 🌍 Crete (island) 🌍 Naxos (island) 🌍 Lemnos (island) 👤 Theseus 👤 Palamedes 👤 Pasiphae (Cretan) 👥 the Harpies 👤 Helen 👤 Icaros 👤 Io 👤 Periboia (Salamian) 👤 Persephone 👤 Phaidra 👤 Pleisthenes 👤 Poias 👤 Polyidos (Corinthian) 👤 Procris (hunter) 👤 Leto 👤 Leucos (Cretan) 👤 Meda (Cretan) 👤 Medeia 👤 Menelaos 👤 Miletos 👤 Minos 👥 the Moirai 👥 the Nereids 👤 Nisos (Megarian) 👤 Odysseus 👤 Oinopion 🌍 Marathon (Attica) 👤 Python 👤 Rhadamanthys 👤 Sarpedon (Lycian) 👤 Scylla (Megarian) 👤 Semele 👤 Talos (Cretan I) 👤 Talos (Athenian) 👤 Tantalos (Lydian) 👤 Teucros (s. of Scamandros) 👥 the Titans 👤 Triton (sea god) 👤 Tyndareos 🌍 the Planctai 🏛️ the Labyrinth (Knossos) 👤 the Minotaur 🏺 the Thread of Ariadne 🏺 the Wings of Daidalos 👥 the Lacedaimon Contingent at Troy (attackers) 👥 the Cephallenian Contingent at Troy (attackers) 👥 the Cretan Contingent at Troy (attackers) 👥 the Rhodian Contingent at Troy (attackers) 👥 the Peneios Contingent at Troy (attackers) 🌍 Sparta (Laconia) 🌍 Mycenae (Argolid) 🌍 Camicos (Sicily) 🌍 Sicyon (Argolid) 🌍 Mount Ida (Troad) 🌍 Troy (Troad) 🌍 Sidon (Phoinicia) 🌍 Cyprus (island) 🌍 Egypt 🌍 Ithaca (island) 👤 the Eidolon of Helen 👤 Helios 🌍 Lesbos (island) 🌍 Phocaia (Ionia) 🌍 Colophon (Ionia) 🌍 Cyme Phriconis (Ionia) 🌍 Caria (Asia Minor) 🌍 Lycia (SW Asia Minor) 🌍 Opountian Locris 🌍 Boiotia 🌍 Euboia (island) 🌍 Phrygia 🌍 Argos (city) 🌍 Pylos (Messenia) 🌍 Elis (region) 🌍 Doulichion (island) 🌍 Cephallenia (island) 🌍 Rhodes (island) 🌍 Scyros (island) 👥 the Telchines 👤 Meriones 🌍 Lindos (Rhodes) 🌍 Mount Haimos (Thrace) 🌍 River Nile (Egypt) 🌍 Libya (North Africa) 🌍 Phoinicia 🌍 Seriphos (island) 🌍 Thebes (Boiotia) 🌍 Thoricos (Attica) 🌍 Ocaleai (Boiotia) 🌍 Delphi (Phocis) 🌍 Mount Pelion (Thessaly) 🌍 Cape Malea (Laconia) 🌍 River Alpheios (Peloponnese) 🌍 Mount Olympos (N. Greece) 🌍 Paros (island) 🌍 Sicily (island) 🌍 River Eridanos (unlocatable) 🌍 Tainaron (Laconia) 🌍 Troizen (Argolid) 🌍 Lydia (Asia Minor) 🌍 Doliche (alt. Icaria) 🌍 Colchis (Pontos) 🌍 Tegea (Arcadia) 🌍 Laconia (Peloponnese) 🌍 Thesprotia 🌍 Samos (island) 👤 Wife of Daidalos (name unknown) 🌍 Gortyna (Crete) 👥 the Pelasgians 🌍 Myconos (island) 🌍 the Tyrrhenian Sea 🌍 Aiaia (unlocatable) 🌍 Delos (island) 🌍 Chios (island) 🌍 Thessaly 👥 the Ionians 👥 the Dorians of Thessaly 👥 the Aiolians 🌍 Iolcos (Thessaly) 🌍 Andros (island) 🌍 Mount Mimas (Ionia) 🌍 Melos (island) 🌍 Epeiros (N. Greece) 🌍 Cape Sounion (Attica) 🌍 the Island of the Sirens (unlocatable) 🌍 the Promontory of Scylla (unlocatable) 🌍 the Promontory of Charybdis (unlocatable) 🌍 Thrinacia (island) 🌍 Scheria (unlocatable island) 🌍 Same (island) 🌍 Zacynthos (island) 🌍 the Strophades Islands (alt. Echinades) 🌍 the Apsyrtides Islands (Illyria) 🌍 Ausonia (Italy) 🌍 Corcyra (island) 🌍 Anaphe (island) 🌍 the Ligurian Sea 🌍 Aigina (island) 🌍 Knossos (Crete) 👥 the Solymoi 👤 Laelaps (dog of Procris) 🌍 Italy 🌍 Bouthroten (Molossia) 🌍 Icaria (island) 🌍 Olympia (Elis) 🌍 Miletos (Asia Minor) 🌍 Cretinia (Rhodes) 🌍 Mount Sipylos (Lydia) 🌍 Elis (city) 🌍 the Troad 🌍 Samothrace (island) 🌍 Megara (Argolid) 🏺 the Club of Theseus 🌍 Crisa (Phocis) 🌍 Mount Tmolos (Asia Minor) 🌍 Mount Mycale (Caria) 👤 the Bull of Poseidon 🌍 River Xanthos (Lycia) 🌍 Amyclai (Laconia) 🌍 Arene (Messenia?) 🌍 Thryon (Messenia) 🌍 Aipy (Messenia) 🌍 Lyctos (Crete) 🌍 Miletos (Crete) 🌍 Lycastos (Crete) 🌍 Phaistos (Crete) 🌍 Rhytion (Crete) 🌍 Ialysos (Rhodes) 🌍 Cameiros (Rhodes) 🌍 Crapathos (island) 🌍 Cos (city) 🌍 the Calymnian Islands (Sporades) 🌍 River Peneios (Thessaly) 🌍 Claros (Ionia) 🌍 the Lipari Islands (Sicily) 🌍 River Istros (Europe) 🌍 Mount Aigaion (Crete) 👥 the Olympian Gods 👤 Ploutos 🌍 Imbros (island) 🌍 Emathia (N. Greece) 👤 Coiranos (charioteer) 🏛️ the Dancing Place of Ariadne (Knossos) 👥 the Leleges of Asia Minor 👤 Anchises (Sicyonian) 👤 Athamas (Chian) 🌍 Plynos (Libya) 👤 Britomartis 👤 Gortys (Cretan) 🌍 Tenos (island) 👤 Dictynna (Cretan) 🌍 Mount Cragos (Lycia) 👤 Erythros 👤 Euanthes 👤 Heracles (Dactyl) 👥 the Dactyloi 🌍 Dyme (Achaia) 👤 Carmanor 👤 Clymenos (Cretan) 👤 Cnageus 🌍 the Baliares (islands) 🌍 Phaleron (Attica) 👤 Cres 👤 Cydon 👤 Melas (Chian II) 👤 Neda 👤 Neileus (Ionian) 👤 Pandareos 👤 Rhacios 👤 Salagos 👤 Talos (Cretan III) 👤 Phaistos (Sicyonian & Cretan) 👤 Phemonoe 👤 Philandros 👤 Phylacides 🌍 River Neda (Arcadia/Messenia/Elis) 🏺 the Cult Statue of Artemis Cnagia 👤 Cybele (goddess) 🌍 Amnisos (Crete) 🏺 the Statues of Eileithyia 🏛️ the Temple of Eileithyia at Athens 🏺 the Wooden Statue of Heracles (Daidalian, Theban) 👤 Endoios 🌍 River Tethris (Crete) 🌍 the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi 👤 Damia 👤 Auxesia 🌍 Mount Ida (Crete) 👥 the Dorians of the Peloponnese 🏺 the Wooden Statue (Daidalian, Sicilian) 🌍 Cydonia (Crete) 🌍 Catreus (Crete) 🌍 Macedonia (N. Greece) 🌍 Phrixa (Elis) 🏛️ the Temple of Cydonian Athena at Phrixa (Elis) 🌍 Tyre (Phoinicia) 🌍 Erythrai (Asia Minor) 👤 Chrysothemis (Cretan) 🌍 Inycos (Sicily) 🌍 Mount Corycos (Ionia) 🏛️ the House of Carmanor (Tarra) 🌍 Pharai (Achaia) 🌍 Aigai (Achaia) 🏺 the Wooden Statue of Britomartis (Daidalian) 🌍 Olous (Crete) 🏺 the Wooden Statue of Athena (Daidalian) 🏺 the Wooden Statue of Aphrodite (Daidalian) 👤 Nauplios (f. of Palamedes) 🌍 Amathous (Cyprus) 🌍 River Iardanos (Crete) 👤 Byblis 👥 the Earlier Athenian Tributes 👤 Tauros (rat. Minotaur) 🌍 Iapygia (Italy) 👥 the Final Athenian Tribute 👤 Phereclos (Athenian) 👤 Nausithoos (Salamian) 👤 Phaiax (Salaminian) 👤 Son of Castor (Odyssean persona) 👤 Castor (Odyssean creation) 🌍 Chalcis (Elis) 🏛️ Spring Crounoi (Elis) 🌍 Heracleion (Crete) 👤 Corcyne 🌍 Dia (island) 🏺 the Statue of Trophonios (Daidalian) 👤 Aithon (Odyssean persona) 🏛️ the Cave of Eileithyia (Crete) ⏳ the Funeral Games of Androgeos (Knossos) 👤 Pteras 🌍 Aptera (Crete) 🌍 Pityoussai Islands 👤 Orsilochos (Odyssean creation) 👤 Aedon 🏛️ Parthenion Well (Eleusis) 👤 Doso (persona of Demeter) 🌍 Mount Cynthos (Delos) 🌍 Eiresiai (unlocatable) 🌍 Peparethos (island) 🌍 Autocane (Ionia) 🌍 Mount Aisagee (unlocatable) 🌍 Rhenaia (island) 👥 the Cretan Priests of Apollo 🌍 Argyphea (Messenia?) 🌍 Phobos (Sicyon) 🌍 Pylos (Triphylia) 🌍 Halicarnassos (Caria) 👥 the Dictaian Nymphs of Mount Ida (Cretan) 👥 the Satyrs 👤 Lycomedes (Cretan) 👤 Cretan Exile (Odyssean persona) 🌍 Mount Arginous (Crete) 👤 Celmis 👤 Damnameneus 👤 Anubis 🏺 the Replica Cow 👤 Apis (Egyptian) 🏛️ the Dictaian Cave (Crete) 🌍 Parrhasia (region) 🌍 Thenai (Crete) 🌍 Omphalian Plain (Crete) 🌍 Mount Leuca (Crete) 🌍 River Cairatos (Crete) 🏺 the Bow of Artemis 🌍 Mount Olympos (Mysia) 🌍 Mounychia (Attica) 🌍 Cnidos (Asia Minor) 👤 Osiris 🏺 the Bow of Apollo 🏺 the Umbilical Cord of Zeus 🏛️ the Cave of Zeus (Crete) 🌍 River Amnisos (Crete) 🏛️ the Cave of Pan (Arcadia) 🌍 Mount Dicte (W. Crete) 🌍 the Sanctuary of Dictynna (Crete) 👤 Metioche (Boiotian) 👤 Menippe (Boiotian) 👤 Arge 🌍 Mount Argillon (Egypt) 🌍 Troy (Egypt) 👤 Idaia (Cretan) 🏺 the Necklace of Europe 🌍 the Ogylian Sea 👤 Crete (w. of Zeus) 🌍 Aigidocos (Crete) 👤 Hymenaios (s. of Apollo or Muse) 👤 Corybas (f. of Ida) 👤 Ascanios (s. of Aineias) 🌍 the Oracle of Zeus at Dodona (Epeiros) 🏛️ the Tomb of Zeus (Crete) 🌍 Ambracia (Epiros) 👤 Father of Crete (name unknown) 👤 Caunos 👤 Botton 🌍 Chaonia (Epeiros) 👤 Menedemos 👥 the Sons of Codros 👤 Althaimenes (Argive) 👤 Leucocomas 👤 Euxyntheros 🌍 Leban (Crete) 🌍 Praisos (Crete) 🌍 Mount Tityros (Crete) 🌍 Hierapytna (Crete) 🌍 Pytna (Troad) 🌍 the Adriatic Sea 👥 the Companions of Aineias 👤 Ichnobates (dog) 👤 Labros (dog of Actaion) 👤 Argiodus (dog) 🌍 Venetia (Italy) 🏛️ the Labyrinth (Egypt) 🌍 Magnesia on the Maiandros (Caria) 🌍 the Lookout of Perseus (Egypt) 👤 Helice (Cretan) 👤 Cynosura (Cretan) 👥 the Termilians 🌍 Hamaxitos (Troad) 👤 Iapyx (eponym I) 🌍 Hyria (S. Italy) 🌍 Brentesion (S. Italy) 🌍 Sarepta (Phoinicia) 👤 Scamandros (Cretan) 🌍 Rhaucos (Crete) 🏺 the Ships of Aineias 🌍 Pompeii (Campania) 🏺 the Wings of Icaros 👤 Picus 👤 Aeneas Silvius 🏺 the Lock of Hair of Nisos 🌍 Lebinthos (island) 👤 Leucippe (Cretan) 👤 Galateia (Cretan) 👤 Lampros 🏛️ the Temple of Leto at Phaistos (Crete) 👤 Laios (Cretan) 👤 Celeos (Cretan) 👤 Cerberos (Cretan) 👤 Aigolios 🌍 Mount Chimaira (E. Lycia) 👤 Siproites (Cretan) 👤 Andromedes 👤 the Golden Dog (Cretan) 🌍 Limyra (Lycia) 🌍 Bybassos (Caria) 👤 Ligdos 👤 Telethusa 👤 Bastet 👤 Harpocrates 👤 Iphis (d of Telethusa) 👤 Ianthe (w. of Iphis) 👤 Olenos (h. of Lethaea) 👤 Lethaea (w. of Olenos) 👤 Leucippos (Cretan) 🌍 Acte (Chalcidice) 🏺 the Spear of Cephalos 🌍 Siphnos (island) 🌍 Gyaros (island) 👤 Zeus (Cretan) 🌍 Idaia (alt. Crete) 👤 Iphis (f. of Ligdos) 👤 Iphis (s. of Telethusa) 👤 Dionysos (Libyan) 🏺 the Bones of Orion 🏺 the Bones of Otos 👤 Crete (Hesperid) 🌍 Astypalaia (Aegean) 🌍 Cimolos (Aegean) 🌍 Oliaros (Aegean) 🌍 Didyme (Aegean) 👥 the Cretan Companions of Minos 🏛️ the Plane Tree at Gortyna (Crete) 👤 Pollis 👤 Delphos (Laconian) 🏺 the Daidalian Statues dedicated at the Argive Heraion
Mentioned by
📖 Apollodoros, Epitome 3.3 📖 Apollodoros, Epitome 6.10 📖 Apollodoros, Library 2.4.11 📖 Apollodoros, Library 2.5.7 📖 Apollodoros, Epitome 6.15a 📖 Apollodoros, Epitome 6.15b 📖 Apollodoros, Library 3.1.1 📖 Apollodoros, Library 3.1.2 📖 Apollodoros, Library 3.1.3 📖 Apollodoros, Library 3.1.4 📖 Apollodoros, Library 3.2.1 📖 Apollodoros, Library 3.3.1 📖 Apollodoros, Library 3.15.1 📖 Apollodoros, Library 3.15.8 📖 Lycophron, Alexandra 144-167 📖 Lycophron, Alexandra 1214-1225 📖 Lycophron, Alexandra 1283-1308 📖 Pausanias 1.1.2 📖 Pausanias 3.2.4 📖 Pausanias 3.14.2 📖 Pausanias 1.17.3 📖 Pausanias 1.18.5 📖 Pausanias 1.21.4 📖 Pausanias 1.26.4 📖 Pausanias 2.30.3 📖 Pausanias 2.32.2 📖 Pausanias 5.8.1 📖 Pausanias 7.2.5 📖 Pausanias 7.3.1 📖 Pausanias 7.3.7 📖 Pausanias 7.4.5 📖 Pausanias 7.4.6 📖 Pausanias 7.4.8 📖 Pausanias 8.38.2 📖 Homer, Odyssey 3.276-3.303 📖 Plutarch, Theseus 16.2 📖 Plutarch, Theseus 16.3 📖 Plutarch, Theseus 19.1 📖 Plutarch, Theseus 21.1 📖 Homer, Odyssey 3.184-3.200 📖 Homer, Odyssey 14.191-14.359 📖 Homer, Odyssey 14.378-14.385 📖 Homer, Odyssey 11.321-11.327 📖 Homer, Odyssey 17.505-17.527 📖 Homer, Odyssey 19.172-19.203 📖 Homer, Odyssey 13.250-13.286 📖 Homeric Hymn 2 to Demeter 120-144 📖 Homeric Hymn 3 to Apollo 25-49 📖 Euripides, Trojan Women 940-944 📖 Euripides, Hippolytos 732-770 📖 Homer, Iliad 2.645-2.652 📖 Homer, Iliad 13.442-13.454 📖 Dionysios, Periegesis 500-504 📖 Pausanias 3.18.4-3.18.5 📖 Pausanias 1.17.5-1.17.6 📖 Pausanias 1.22.4-1.22.5 📖 Pausanias 9.11.4-9.11.5 📖 Pausanias 1.27.9-1.27.10 📖 Pausanias 2.6.5-2.6.7 📖 Pausanias 2.7.7-2.7.8 📖 Pausanias 9.33.1-9.33.2 📖 Pausanias 10.6.5-10.7.2 📖 Apollodoros, Epitome 3.11-3.14 📖 Apollodoros, Epitome 6.1-6.30 📖 Apollodoros, Library 1.9.26 📖 Apollodoros, Library 3.1.3-3.1.4 📖 Apollodoros, Library 3.3.1-3.3.2 📖 Apollodoros, Library 2.4.6-2.4.8 📖 Plutarch, Theseus 17.1-17.6 📖 Plutarch, Theseus 19.4-19.7 📖 Plutarch, Theseus 20.1-20.5 📖 Hesiod, Theogony 969-974 📖 Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 89 Most 📖 Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 90 Most 📖 Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 91 Most 📖 Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 92 Most 📖 Sophocles, Aias 1266-1315 📖 Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 138 Most 📖 Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 155 Most 📖 Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 156 Most 📖 Hesiod, Idaian Dactyls fr. 217a, b Most 📖 Cypria Argumentum 2 West 📖 Cypria Argumentum 4 West 📖 Palaiphatos, On Unbelievable Stories 12 📖 Palaiphatos, On Unbelievable Stories 15 📖 Bacchylides, Dithyrambs 17 📖 Bacchylides fr. 10 📖 Bacchylides fr. 47 📖 Lucian, On Sacrifices 5 📖 Lucian, On Sacrifices 10 📖 Lucian, On Funerals 7-8 📖 Lucian, Parliament of the Gods 6 📖 Lucian, Zeus Rants 45 📖 Callimachus, Hymn to Delos 249-274 📖 Callimachus, Hymn to Delos 300-315 📖 Lucian, A True Story 2.6 📖 Lucian, Timon, or the Misanthrope 6 📖 Lucian, On the Syrian Goddess 4 📖 Lucian, The Lover of Lies 3 📖 Lucian, The Lover of Lies 19 📖 Lucian, Anacharsis 39 📖 Lucian, The Dance 8 📖 Lucian, The Dance 49 📖 Lucian, Gout 30-53 📖 Ps-Lucian, The Patriot 10 📖 Pindar fr. 52d Snell-Maehler 📖 Diodoros, Library 1.94.1-1.94.2 📖 Diodoros, Library 3.61.1-3.61.6 📖 Diodoros, Library 3.71.1-3.71.6 📖 Diodoros, Library 3.73.1-3.73.8 📖 Diodoros, Library 3.74.1-3.74.6 📖 D-Scholia, Iliad 2.145 📖 D-Scholia, Iliad 2.157 📖 Pomponius Mela 2.112 📖 Diodoros, Library 5.80.1-5.80.4 📖 Strabo 7 fr. 7a Radt 📖 Ovid, Ibis 509-510 📖 Strabo 10.4.6 📖 Strabo 10.4.8 📖 Strabo 10.4.9 📖 Strabo 10.4.15 📖 Strabo 10.4.18 📖 Strabo 10.3.11 📖 Strabo 10.3.13 📖 Euripides, Bacchae 64-169 📖 Strabo 10.3.19-10.3.20 📖 Strabo 10.3.22 📖 Ovid, Metamorphoses 2.833-2.875 📖 Strabo 10.4.19 📖 Strabo 1.2.38-1.2.40 📖 Servius, Scholia on Georgics 1.222 📖 Servius, Scholia on Georgics 1.246 📖 Strabo 14.1.19 📖 Strabo 14.2.6-14.2.11 📖 Strabo 14.3.10 📖 D-Scholia, Iliad 12.397 📖 Ovid, Amores 1.7 📖 Strabo 13.1.48 📖 Strabo 5.2.3-5.2.4 📖 D-Scholia, Iliad 15.229 📖 Strabo 12.8.5 📖 Strabo 6.3.2 📖 Strabo 6.3.6 📖 Ovid, Amores 3.10 📖 D-Scholia, Iliad 18.590 📖 Callimachus, Iambi 12 = fr. 202-202a Pfeiffer 📖 Ovid, Metamorphoses 8.1-8.151 📖 Diodoros, Library 6.5.1-6.5.3 📖 Ovid, Metamorphoses 8.152-8.182 📖 Ovid, Metamorphoses 8.183-8.259 📖 Callimachus fr. 407 Pfeiffer 📖 Callimachus fr. 663 Pfeiffer 📖 Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses 17 📖 Callimachus fr. 786 Pfeiffer 📖 Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses 30 📖 Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses 40 📖 Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses 41 📖 Ovid, Metamorphoses 9.394-9.449 📖 Ovid, Metamorphoses 9.666-9.797 📖 Ovid, Metamorphoses 13.705-13.749 📖 Ovid, Metamorphoses 7.453-7.500 📖 Euripides, Helen 765-841 📖 Pliny, Natural History 7.197 📖 Pliny, Natural History 7.73-7.74 📖 Pliny, Natural History 7.204 📖 Pliny, Natural History 4.58 📖 Conon, Narrations 29 📖 Pliny, Natural History 6.157 📖 Conon, Narrations 25 📖 Conon, Narrations 47 📖 Apollodoros, Library 1.9.24-1.9.26 ⚒️ Hymn to Apollo by Limenios at the Athenian Treasury at Delphi (Delphi 489; PHI 239435; PHI 238501) ⚒️ Parian Chronicle (Ashmolean 449945; IG XII, 5, 444; PHI 77668) ⚒️ Ephebic Decree at Athens (EMA 9506 etc; IG II, 2, 1125; 2291a; SEG 50.155; PHI 4527; PHI 3340)
Mentioned in Text
Apollodoros, Epitome Apollodoros, Library Homer, Iliad Dionysios, Periegesis Hesiod, Theogony Lycophron, Alexandra Homer, Odyssey Cypria Euripides, Trojan Women Plutarch, Theseus Euripides, Hippolytos Pausanias Pindar Homeric Hymn 2 to Demeter Homeric Hymn 3 to Apollo Hesiod, Ehoiai Sophocles, Aias Strabo Palaiphatos, On Unbelievable Stories Bacchylides Lucian, On Sacrifices Lucian, On Funerals Lucian, Parliament of the Gods Lucian, Zeus Rants Callimachus, Hymn to Delos Lucian, A True Story Lucian, Timon, or the Misanthrope Lucian, On the Syrian Goddess Lucian, The Lover of Lies Lucian, Anacharsis Lucian, The Dance Lucian, Gout Ps-Lucian, The Patriot Bacchylides, Dithyrambs Diodoros, Library Hesiod, Idaian Dactyls Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses Pomponius Mela D-Scholia, Iliad Ovid, Ibis Callimachus Ovid, Metamorphoses Euripides, Bacchae Servius, Scholia on Georgics Ovid, Amores Callimachus, Iambi Conon, Narrations Euripides, Helen Pliny, Natural History
Mentioned in citation of
📖 Ion of Chios, Mythography fr. 1 Fowler 📖 Homer, Odyssey 3.184-3.200 📖 Philochoros of Athens FGrHist 328 fr. 111 📖 Cleidemos of Athens BNJ 323 fr. 17 📖 Paion BNJ 757 fr. 2 📖 Homer, Odyssey 19.172-19.203 📖 Aristotle fr. 485 Rose 📖 Homer, Iliad 2.645-2.652 📖 Homer, Iliad 16.608-16.626 📖 Homer, Iliad 13.442-13.454 📖 Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 89 Most 📖 Hesiod, Idaian Dactyls fr. 217a, b Most 📖 Acousilaos fr. 29 Fowler 📖 Bacchylides fr. 10 📖 Callimachus, Aetia fr. 43 Harder 📖 Philostephanos FHG fr. 36 = FGrHist 1751 fr. 22 📖 Andron of Halicarnassos fr. 16a Fowler 📖 Ephoros FGrHist 70 fr. 147 📖 Ephoros FGrHist 70 fr. 146 📖 Euphorion of Chalcis fr. 164 Lightfoot 📖 Euripides, Bacchae 64-169 📖 Demetrios of Scepsis BNJ 2013 fr. 61 📖 Vergil, Georgics 1.204-1.230 📖 Callinos test. 4 Gerber 📖 Vergil, Georgics 1.231-1.258 📖 Herodotos, Histories 1.173 📖 Herodotos, Histories 7.170 📖 Dionysios Scytobrachion fr. 10 Rusten 📖 Dionysios Scytobrachion fr. 11 Rusten 📖 Dionysios Scytobrachion fr. 12 Rusten 📖 Simonides fr. 33 Diehl = 45a PMG 📖 Nicander, Metamorphoses fr. 45 Gow-Scholfield 📖 Nicander, Metamorphoses fr. 46 Gow-Scholfield 📖 Dosiades BNJ 458 fr. 4 📖 Anaximander FGrHist 9 fr. 2 📖 Euripides, Bacchae 1-63 📖 Epimenides Pseudepigraphus fr. 4 Fowler 📖 Dosiades BNJ 458 test. 1 📖 Sosicrates BNJ 461 test. 2 📖 Laosthenidas BNJ 462 test. 1
Depictions
🎨 Wall Paintings from Casa dei Quattro Stili I 8, 17, Pompeii (PALP r1-i8-p17-space-9) 🎨 Wall Paintings from Termopolio I 8, 8, Pompeii (PALP r1-i8-p8-space-10)
Reported depictions
🎨 Wall Painting of Theseus in Sanctuary of Theseus, Athens, by Micon (LIMC Theseus 227)
Relevant to local traditions reported from
🌍 Crete (island) 🌍 Naxos (island) 🌍 Sparta (Laconia) 🌍 Colophon (Ionia) 🌍 Libya (North Africa) 🌍 Troizen (Argolid) 🌍 Miletos (Asia Minor) 🌍 Erythrai (Asia Minor) 🌍 the Land of the Atlantians
Reported to have local traditions about
👤 Acacallis 👤 Artemis 👤 Catreus (eponym) 👤 the Cretan Bull 👤 Eileithyia 👤 Hera 👤 Poseidon 👤 Zeus (Olympian) 👤 Hermes 🌍 Crete (island) 👤 Minos 👤 Rhadamanthys 👤 Britomartis 👤 Gortys (Cretan) 👤 Dictynna (Cretan) 👤 Euboulos 👤 Carmanor 👤 Carme 👤 Cydon 🌍 Amnisos (Crete) 🏛️ the Tomb of Zeus (Crete)
Local traditions reported by
📖 Pausanias 1.18.5 📖 Pausanias 2.30.3 📖 Pausanias 8.53.4 📖 Pausanias 1.27.9-1.27.10 📖 Palaiphatos, On Unbelievable Stories 31 📖 Lucian, On Sacrifices 10 📖 Lucian, Parliament of the Gods 6 📖 Lucian, Zeus Rants 45 📖 Callimachus, Hymn to Zeus 1-9 📖 Callimachus, Hymn to Artemis 183-224 📖 Lucian, Timon, or the Misanthrope 6 📖 Lucian, The Lover of Lies 3 📖 Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses 40
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