- 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, Iliad Lycophron, Alexandra Homer, Odyssey Plutarch, Theseus Pausanias Homeric Hymn 3 to Apollo Strabo Bacchylides, Odes Callimachus, Aetia Callimachus, Hymn to Zeus Bacchylides, Dithyrambs Ovid, 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)