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🌍 Knossos (Crete)

  • <span class="a type-6580" data-type_id="6580" data-object_id="8188819" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-6580_8188819">🌍 Naxos (island) </span>
  • Alternative names
    Cnossos
    Information
    city in Crete
    In
    🌍 Crete (island)
    Place of death of
    👤 Deucalion (Cretan) 👤 the Minotaur 👥 the Earlier Athenian Tributes
    Place of burial of
    👤 Idomeneus (Cretan) 👤 Meriones
    Founded by
    👤 Minos
    Ruled by
    👤 Idomeneus (Cretan) 👤 Leucos (Cretan) 👤 Minos
    Conquered by
    👤 Theseus
    Relics preserved on site
    🏛️ the Dancing Place of Ariadne (Knossos) 🏺 the Wooden Statue of Athena (Daidalian)
    Encompases
    🏛️ the Labyrinth (Knossos) 🏛️ the Dancing Place of Ariadne (Knossos) ⏳ the Funeral Games of Androgeos (Knossos) 🏛️ the House of Rhea (Knossos)🏛️ the Tomb of Idomeneus and Meriones (Knossos)
    Related Entities
    👤 Androgeos 👤 Apollo 👤 Ariadne 👤 Cocalos 👤 the Cretan Bull 👤 Daidalos 👤 Deucalion (Cretan) 👤 Rhea 👤 Zeus 👤 Heracles 👤 Idomeneus (Cretan) 🌍 Athens (Attica) 🌍 Crete (island) 🌍 Naxos (island) 👤 Theseus 👤 Pasiphae (Cretan) 👤 Icaros 👤 Leucos (Cretan) 👤 Minos 👤 Odysseus 👤 the Minotaur 🏺 the Thread of Ariadne 🏺 the Wings of Daidalos 👥 the Cretan Contingent at Troy (attackers) 🌍 Camicos (Sicily) 🌍 Ithaca (island) 🌍 Pylos (Messenia) 🌍 Doulichion (island) 👤 Meriones 🌍 Delphi (Phocis) 🌍 Cape Malea (Laconia) 🌍 River Alpheios (Peloponnese) 🌍 Sicily (island) 🌍 Tainaron (Laconia) 🌍 Gortyna (Crete) 🌍 Delos (island) 🌍 Same (island) 🌍 Zacynthos (island) 🌍 Knossos (Crete) 🌍 Elis (city) 🏺 the Club of Theseus 🌍 Crisa (Phocis) 🌍 Arene (Messenia?) 🌍 Thryon (Messenia) 🌍 Aipy (Messenia) 🌍 Lyctos (Crete) 🌍 Miletos (Crete) 🌍 Lycastos (Crete) 🌍 Phaistos (Crete) 🌍 Rhytion (Crete) 🏛️ the Dancing Place of Ariadne (Knossos) 🌍 Dyme (Achaia) 👤 Neda 🌍 River Neda (Arcadia/Messenia/Elis) 🏺 the Wooden Statue of Heracles (Daidalian, Theban) 🏺 the Wooden Statue (Daidalian, Sicilian) 🌍 Cydonia (Crete) 🌍 Pharai (Achaia) 🏺 the Wooden Statue of Britomartis (Daidalian) 🏺 the Wooden Statue of Athena (Daidalian) 🏺 the Wooden Statue of Aphrodite (Daidalian) 👥 the Earlier Athenian Tributes 👤 Tauros (rat. Minotaur) 👥 the Final Athenian Tribute 🌍 Chalcis (Elis) 🏛️ Spring Crounoi (Elis) 👤 Corcyne 🏺 the Statue of Trophonios (Daidalian) 👤 Aithon (Odyssean persona) ⏳ the Funeral Games of Androgeos (Knossos) 👥 the Cretan Priests of Apollo🌍 Argyphea (Messenia?) 🌍 Pylos (Triphylia) 🏺 the Replica Cow 🌍 Thenai (Crete) 🌍 Omphalian Plain (Crete) 👤 Ichnobates (dog) 👤 Iapyx (eponym I) 🌍 Brentesion (S. Italy) 🏺 the Wings of Icaros
    Mentioned by
    📖 Lycophron, Alexandra 1214-1225📖 Pausanias 8.53.8📖 Plutarch, Theseus 16.1📖 Plutarch, Theseus 19.1📖 Homer, Odyssey 19.172-19.203📖 Homer, Odyssey 19.225-19.260📖 Homeric Hymn 3 to Apollo 388-439📖 Homer, Iliad 2.645-2.652📖 Homer, Iliad 18.590-18.606📖 Pausanias 5.10.9-5.10.10📖 Pausanias 9.40.3-9.40.4📖 Plutarch, Theseus 19.4-19.7📖 Plutarch, Theseus 20.1-20.5📖 Bacchylides, Odes 1📖 Bacchylides, Dithyrambs 17📖 Bacchylides, Dithyrambs 26📖 Callimachus, Hymn to Zeus 42-54📖 Callimachus, Aetia fr. 43b Harder📖 Strabo 10.4.7📖 Strabo 10.4.8📖 Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.138-3.252📖 Strabo 6.3.6
    Mentioned in Text
    Homer, IliadLycophron, AlexandraHomer, OdysseyPlutarch, TheseusPausanias Homeric Hymn 3 to ApolloStraboBacchylides, OdesCallimachus, AetiaCallimachus, Hymn to ZeusBacchylides, DithyrambsOvid, Metamorphoses
    Mentioned in citation of
    📖 Philochoros FGrHist 328 fr. 17a📖 Cleidemos BNJ 323 fr. 17📖 Homer, Odyssey 19.172-19.203📖 Homer, Iliad 18.590-18.606📖 Pherecydes of Athens fr. 150 Fowler
    Depictions
    🎨 Wall Paintings from Casa del Sacerdos Amandus I 7, 7, Pompeii (PALP r1-i7-p7-space-b)🎨 Wall Paintings from Private Dwelling V 2, 10, Pompeii (MANN 120626; LIMC Herakles 2771; PALP r5-i2-p10-space-q)
    Reported depictions
    🎨 Metopes of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia (Olympia East 1-6; West 1-6; LIMC Amazones 97)
    Relevant to local traditions reported from
    🌍 Naxos (island)
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