- Information
- island in the Aegean
- Cult site of
- 👤 Britomartis 👤 Dictynna (Cretan) 👤 Eileithyia
- Place of conception of
- 👤 Minos 👤 Ploutos 👤 Rhadamanthys 👤 Sarpedon (Lycian) 👤 the Minotaur
- Place of birth of
- 👤 Eileithyia 👤 Minos 👤 Rhadamanthys 👤 Sarpedon (Lycian) 👤 Zeus 👤 the Minotaur
- Place of death of
- 👤 Ariadne 👤 Cleisithyra 👤 Deucalion (Cretan) 👤 Meda (Cretan) 👤 Orsilochos (Odyssean creation) 👤 Talos (Cretan I) 👤 Tauros (rat. Minotaur) 👤 the Minotaur 👥 the Earlier Athenian Tributes
- Place of burial of
- 👤 Catreus (eponym) 👤 Idomeneus (Cretan) 👤 Meriones 👤 Zeus
- Settled by
- 👤 Althaimenes (Argive) 👥 the Dorians of the Peloponnese 👥 the Pelasgians 👥 the Peneios contingent at Troy (attackers)
- Settled from
- 🌍 Argos (city) 🌍 Megara (Argolid)
- Ruled by
- 👤 Ariadne 👤 Asterios (h. of Europe) 👤 Deucalion (Cretan) 👤 Idomeneus (Cretan) 👤 Minos
- Conquered by
- 👤 Leucos (Cretan)
- Relics preserved on site
- 🏛️ the Cave of Eileithyia (Crete)🏛️ the Dancing Place of Ariadne (Knossos) 🏛️ the Tomb of Zeus (Crete)🏺 the Wooden Statue of Athena (Daidalian) 🏺 the Wooden Statue of Britomartis (Daidalian)
- Encompases
- ⏳ the Funeral Games of Androgeos (Knossos) 🌍 Amnisos (Crete) 🌍 Aptera (Crete) 🌍 Caino (Crete) 🌍 Catreus (Crete) 🌍 Chersonesos (Crete) 🌍 City near Mount Dicte (name unknown) 🌍 Cydonia (Crete) 🌍 Elyros (Crete) 🌍 Gortyna (Crete) 🌍 Heracleion (Crete) 🌍 Hierapytna (Crete) 🌍 Knossos (Crete) 🌍 Leban (Crete) 🌍 Lycastos (Crete) 🌍 Lyctos (Crete) 🌍 Miletos (Crete) 🌍 Mount Aigaion (Crete) 🌍 Mount Berecynthos (Crete) 🌍 Mount Dicte (Crete) 🌍 Mount Ida (Crete) 🌍 Mount Leuca (Crete) 🌍 Mount Tityros (Crete) 🌍 Olous (Crete) 🌍 Omphalian Plain (Crete) 🌍 Phaistos (Crete) 🌍 Praisos (Crete) 🌍 Priansos (Crete) 🌍 Rhaucos (Crete) 🌍 Rhytion (Crete) 🌍 River Amnisos (Crete) 🌍 River Cairatos (Crete) 🌍 River Triton (Crete) 🌍 Thenai (Crete) 🌍 Tripolos (Crete) 🌍 the Sanctuary of Britomartis (Central Crete)🌍 the Sanctuary of Dictynna (Western Crete) 🏛️ the Cave of Eileithyia (Crete)🏛️ the Dancing Place of Ariadne (Knossos) 🏛️ the Dictaian Cave (Zeus' birthplace) 🏛️ the House of Rhea (Knossos)🏛️ the Idaian Cave (Crete) 🏛️ the Labyrinth (Knossos) 🏛️ the Tomb of Idomeneus and Meriones (Knossos)🏛️ the Tomb of Zeus (Crete)
- Depictions
- 🌍 Athens (Attica) 🌍 the Sanctuary of Theseus (Athens)🖌️ Wall paintings from Pompeii (P-LOD r1-i8-p17-space-9)🖌️ Wall paintings from Pompeii (P-LOD r1-i8-p8-space-10)
- Related Entities
- ⏳ the Funeral Games of Androgeos (Knossos) 🌍 Aiaia (unlocatable) 🌍 Aigai (Achaia) 🌍 Aigina (island) 🌍 Aipy (Messenia) 🌍 Amathous (Cyprus) 🌍 Amnisos (Crete) 🌍 Anaphe (island) 🌍 Arene (Messenia?) 🌍 Argos (city) 🌍 Argyphea (Messenia?) 🌍 Athens (Attica) 🌍 Autocane (Ionia) 🌍 Boiotia 🌍 Brentesion (S. Italy) 🌍 Camicos (Sicily) 🌍 Cape Malea (Laconia) 🌍 Cape Sounion (Attica)🌍 Caria (Asia Minor) 🌍 Chalcis (Elis) 🌍 Chios (island) 🌍 Claros (Ionia) 🌍 Cnidos (Cyprus) 🌍 Colchis (Pontos) 🌍 Colophon (Ionia) 🌍 Corcyra (island) 🌍 Cos (city) 🌍 Crapathos (island) 🌍 Crete (island) 🌍 Cretinia (Rhodes) 🌍 Crisa (Phocis) 🌍 Cydonia (Crete) 🌍 Cyprus (island) 🌍 Delos (island) 🌍 Delphi (Phocis) 🌍 Dia (island) 🌍 Doulichion (island) 🌍 Dyme (Achaia) 🌍 Egypt 🌍 Eiresiai (unlocatable) 🌍 Elis (city) 🌍 Elis (region) 🌍 Emathia (N. Greece) 🌍 Erythrai (Asia Minor) 🌍 Euboia (island) 🌍 Gortyna (Crete) 🌍 Hamaxitos (Troad)🌍 Hierapytna (Crete) 🌍 Hyria (S. Italy) 🌍 Iapygia (Italy) 🌍 Icaria (island) 🌍 Imbros (island) 🌍 Inycos (Sicily) 🌍 Iolcos (Thessaly) 🌍 Italy 🌍 Ithaca (island) 🌍 Knossos (Crete) 🌍 Laconia 🌍 Leban (Crete) 🌍 Lemnos (island) 🌍 Lesbos (island) 🌍 Libya (region) 🌍 Lycastos (Crete) 🌍 Lycia (SW Asia Minor) 🌍 Lyctos (Crete) 🌍 Lydia (Asia Minor) 🌍 Macedonia (N. Greece) 🌍 Marathon (Attica) 🌍 Megara (Argolid) 🌍 Miletos (Asia Minor) 🌍 Miletos (Crete) 🌍 Mount Aisagee (unlocatable) 🌍 Mount Argillon (Egypt) 🌍 Mount Athos (Chalcidice) 🌍 Mount Corycos (Ionia) 🌍 Mount Dicte (Crete) 🌍 Mount Dicte (Western Crete) 🌍 Mount Haimos (Thrace) 🌍 Mount Ida (Crete) 🌍 Mount Ida (Troad) 🌍 Mount Leuca (Crete) 🌍 Mount Mimas (Ionia) 🌍 Mount Mycale (Caria) 🌍 Mount Olympos (Mysia) 🌍 Mount Olympos (N. Greece) 🌍 Mount Pelion (Thessaly) 🌍 Mount Tmolos (Asia Minor) 🌍 Mounychia (Attica) 🌍 Mycenae (Argolid) 🌍 Naxos (island) 🌍 Ocaleai (Boiotia) 🌍 Olympia (Elis) 🌍 Omphalian Plain (Crete) 🌍 Opountian Locris 🌍 Paros (island) 🌍 Parrhasia (Arcadia) 🌍 Peparethos (island) 🌍 Phaistos (Crete) 🌍 Phaleron (Attica) 🌍 Pharai (Achaia) 🌍 Phobos (Sicyon) 🌍 Phocaia (Ionia) 🌍 Phoinicia 🌍 Phrixa (Elis) 🌍 Phrygia 🌍 Pityoussai Islands 🌍 Praisos (Crete) 🌍 Priansos (Crete) 🌍 Pylos (Messenia) 🌍 Pylos (Triphylia) 🌍 Pytna (Troad) 🌍 Rhenaia (island) 🌍 Rhodes (island) 🌍 Rhytion (Crete) 🌍 River Alpheios (Peloponnese) 🌍 River Amnisos (Crete) 🌍 River Cairatos (Crete) 🌍 River Eridanos 🌍 River Iardanos (Crete) 🌍 River Istros (Europe) 🌍 River Neda (Arcadia/Messenia/Elis) 🌍 River Nile (Egypt) 🌍 River Tethris (Crete) 🌍 Same (island) 🌍 Samos (island) 🌍 Samothrace (island) 🌍 Scyros (island) 🌍 Sicily (island) 🌍 Sicyon (Argolid) 🌍 Sidon (Phoinicia) 🌍 Sparta (Laconia) 🌍 Tainaron (Laconia) 🌍 Tegea (Arcadia) 🌍 Thebes (Boiotia) 🌍 Thenai (Crete) 🌍 Thesprotia 🌍 Thessaly 🌍 Thoricos (Attica) 🌍 Thrinacia (island) 🌍 Thryon (Messenia) 🌍 Troizen (Argolid) 🌍 Troy (Troad) 🌍 Tyre (Phoinicia) 🌍 Venetia (Italy) 🌍 Zacynthos (island) 🌍 the Adriatic Sea 🌍 the Apsyrtides (islands) 🌍 the Baliares (islands) 🌍 the Hill of Cronos (Olympia) 🌍 the Island of the Sirens (unlocatable) 🌍 the Isthmos of Corinth 🌍 the Ligurian Sea 🌍 the Lipari Islands 🌍 the Ogylian Sea 🌍 the Oracle of Apollo (Delphi)🌍 the Planctai 🌍 the Promontory of Charybdis (unlocatable) 🌍 the Promontory of Scylla (unlocatable) 🌍 the Sanctuary of Dictynna (Western Crete) 🌍 the Sanctuary of Theseus (Athens)🌍 the Tyrrhenian Sea 🌍 the Underworld 🏛️ Casa di Marco Lucrezio sacerdote di Marte e duumviro (Pompeii) 🏛️ Parthenion Well (Eleusis) 🏛️ Spring Crounoi (Elis) 🏛️ the Cave of Eileithyia (Crete)🏛️ the Cave of Pan (Arcadia)🏛️ the Dancing Place of Ariadne (Knossos) 🏛️ the House of Carmanor (Tarra) 🏛️ the Idaian Cave (Crete) 🏛️ the Labyrinth (Knossos) 🏛️ the Temple of Cydonian Athena (Phrixa) 🏛️ the Temple of Eileithyia (Athens)🏛️ the Tomb of Zeus (Crete)🏺 the Argo 🏺 the Bow of Apollo🏺 the Bow of Artemis🏺 the Club of Theseus 🏺 the Cult Statue of Artemis Cnagia 🏺 the Milk of Amaltheia 🏺 the Necklace of Europe 🏺 the Replica Cow 🏺 the Statue of Trophonios (Daidalian) 🏺 the Statues of Eileithyia 🏺 the Thread of Ariadne 🏺 the Umbilical Cord of Zeus🏺 the Wings of Daidalos 🏺 the Wings of Icaros 🏺 the Wooden Statue (Daidalian, Sicilian) 🏺 the Wooden Statue of Aphrodite (Daidalian) 🏺 the Wooden Statue of Athena (Daidalian) 🏺 the Wooden Statue of Britomartis (Daidalian) 🏺 the Wooden Statue of Heracles (Daidalian, Theban) 👤 Acacallis 👤 Adrasteia 👤 Aedon 👤 Aerope (Argive) 👤 Aithon (Odyssean persona) 👤 Alexander (Trojan) 👤 Althaimenes (Argive) 👤 Althaimenes (Rhodian) 👤 Amaltheia 👤 Amphitrite 👤 Androgeos 👤 Apemosyne 👤 Aphrodite 👤 Apollo 👤 Arge 👤 Argiodus (dog) 👤 Ariadne 👤 Artemis 👤 Asterios (h. of Europe) 👤 Athamas (Chian) 👤 Athena 👤 Atymnios (Cretan) 👤 Auxesia 👤 Botton 👤 Britomartis 👤 Carmanor 👤 Carme 👤 Castor (Odyssean creation) 👤 Catreus (eponym) 👤 Cephalos (h. of Procris) 👤 Chrysothemis (Cretan) 👤 Cleisithyra 👤 Clymenos (Cretan) 👤 Cnageus 👤 Cocalos 👤 Coiranos (charioteer) 👤 Corcyne 👤 Corybas (s. of Cybele)👤 Cretan Exile (Odyssean persona) 👤 Cronos 👤 Cybele 👤 Cydon 👤 Daidalos 👤 Damia 👤 Demeter 👤 Deucalion (Cretan) 👤 Dictynna (Cretan) 👤 Dionysos 👤 Doso (persona of Demeter) 👤 Eileithyia 👤 Endoios 👤 Erythros 👤 Euanthes 👤 Euboulos 👤 Europe (Phoinician & Cretan) 👤 Eurystheus 👤 Euxanthios 👤 Euxyntheros 👤 Ge (personification) 👤 Glaucos (Cretan) 👤 Gortys (Cretan) 👤 Hades 👤 Helen 👤 Helios 👤 Hera 👤 Heracles 👤 Hermes 👤 Iapyx 👤 Iasion (s. of Electra) 👤 Icaros 👤 Ichnobates (dog) 👤 Ida 👤 Idomeneus (Cretan) 👤 Iris 👤 Jason (Argonaut) 👤 Labros (dog of Actaion) 👤 Laelaps (dog of Procris) 👤 Leto 👤 Leucocomas 👤 Leucos (Cretan) 👤 Lycomedes (Cretan) 👤 Meda (Cretan) 👤 Medeia 👤 Melas (Chian II) 👤 Menelaos 👤 Menippe (Boiotian) 👤 Meriones 👤 Metioche (Boiotian) 👤 Miletos (eponym) 👤 Minos 👤 Nausithoos (Salamian) 👤 Neda 👤 Odysseus 👤 Oinopion 👤 Orsilochos (Odyssean creation) 👤 Ouranos 👤 Pandareos (Milesian) 👤 Pasiphae (Cretan) 👤 Periboia (Salamian) 👤 Persephone 👤 Phaiax (Salaminian) 👤 Phaidra 👤 Phaistos (Sicyonian & Cretan) 👤 Phemonoe 👤 Phereclos (Athenian) 👤 Philandros 👤 Phylacides 👤 Pleisthenes 👤 Ploutos 👤 Poias 👤 Polyidos (Corinthian) 👤 Poseidon 👤 Procris (hunter) 👤 Pteras 👤 Python 👤 Rhacios 👤 Rhadamanthys 👤 Rhea 👤 Salagos 👤 Sarpedon (Lycian) 👤 Semele 👤 Son of Castor (Odyssean persona) 👤 Talos (Athenian) 👤 Talos (Cretan I) 👤 Talos (Cretan III) 👤 Tauros (rat. Minotaur) 👤 Teucros (s. of Scamandros) 👤 Themis 👤 Theseus 👤 Triton (sea god) 👤 Tyndareos 👤 Wife of Daidalos (name unknown) 👤 Zeus 👤 the Bull of Poseidon 👤 the Cretan Bull 👤 the Eidolon of Helen 👤 the Minotaur 👥 the Argonauts 👥 the Cephallenian contingent at Troy (attackers) 👥 the Corybantes 👥 the Couretes (guardians) 👥 the Cretan Priests of Apollo👥 the Cretan contingent at Troy (attackers) 👥 the Dactyloi 👥 the Dictaian Nymphs of Mount Ida (Cretan) 👥 the Dorians of Thessaly 👥 the Dorians of the Peloponnese 👥 the Earlier Athenian Tributes 👥 the Final Athenian Tribute 👥 the Lacedaimon contingent at Troy (attackers) 👥 the Leleges of Asia Minor 👥 the Nereids 👥 the Pelasgians 👥 the Peneios contingent at Troy (attackers) 👥 the Rhodian contingent at Troy (attackers) 👥 the Satyrs 👥 the Solymoi 👥 the Telchines👥 the Termilians 💠 the Temple of Zeus (Olympia)
- Appears in
- 📜 Cypria Argumentum 2 West📜 Cypria Argumentum 4 West📜 Homeric Hymn 2 to Demeter 120-144📜 Homeric Hymn 3 to Apollo 25-49📜 Apollodoros, Epitome 3.11-3.14📜 Apollodoros, Epitome 3.3📜 Apollodoros, Epitome 6.1-6.30📜 Apollodoros, Epitome 6.10📜 Apollodoros, Epitome 6.15a📜 Apollodoros, Epitome 6.15b📜 Apollodoros, Library 1.9.24-1.9.26📜 Apollodoros, Library 1.9.26📜 Apollodoros, Library 2.4.11📜 Apollodoros, Library 2.4.7📜 Apollodoros, Library 2.5.7📜 Apollodoros, Library 3.1.1📜 Apollodoros, Library 3.1.2📜 Apollodoros, Library 3.1.3📜 Apollodoros, Library 3.1.3-3.1.4📜 Apollodoros, Library 3.1.4📜 Apollodoros, Library 3.15.1📜 Apollodoros, Library 3.15.8📜 Apollodoros, Library 3.2.1📜 Apollodoros, Library 3.3.1-3.3.2📜 Bacchylides, Dithyrambs 17📜 Bacchylides fr. 10📜 Bacchylides fr. 47📜 Callimachus, Hymn to Artemis 183-224📜 Callimachus, Hymn to Delos 249-274📜 Callimachus, Hymn to Delos 300-315📜 Callimachus, Hymn to Zeus 1-9📜 D-Scholia, Iliad 12.397📜 D-Scholia, Iliad 15.229📜 D-Scholia, Iliad 18.590📜 D-Scholia, Iliad 2.145📜 D-Scholia, Iliad 2.157📜 Dionysios Periegetes 500-504📜 Euripides, Hippolytos 732-770📜 Euripides, Trojan Women 940-944📜 Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 138 Most📜 Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 155 Most📜 Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 156 Most📜 Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 89 Most📜 Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 90 Most📜 Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 91 Most📜 Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 92 Most📜 Hesiod, Idaian Dactyls fr. 217a, b Most📜 Hesiod, Theogony 969-974📜 Homer, Iliad 13.442-13.454📜 Homer, Iliad 2.645-2.652📜 Homer, Odyssey 11.321-11.327📜 Homer, Odyssey 13.250-13.286📜 Homer, Odyssey 14.191-14.359📜 Homer, Odyssey 14.378-14.385📜 Homer, Odyssey 17.505-17.527📜 Homer, Odyssey 19.172-19.203📜 Homer, Odyssey 3.184-3.200📜 Homer, Odyssey 3.276-3.303📜 Lucian, Anacharsis 39📜 Lucian, Gout 30-53📜 Lucian, On Funerals 7-8📜 Lucian, Parliament of the Gods 6📜 Lucian, The Dance 49📜 Lucian, The Dance 8📜 Ovid, Amores 1.7📜 Ovid, Amores 3.10📜 Ovid, Ibis 509-510📜 Ovid, Metamorphoses 2.833-2.875📜 Palaiphatos, On Unbelievable Stories 12📜 Palaiphatos, On Unbelievable Stories 15📜 Palaiphatos, On Unbelievable Stories 31📜 Pausanias 1.1.2📜 Pausanias 1.17.3📜 Pausanias 1.17.5-1.17.6📜 Pausanias 1.18.5📜 Pausanias 1.21.4📜 Pausanias 1.22.5📜 Pausanias 1.26.4📜 Pausanias 1.27.9-1.27.10📜 Pausanias 10.6.5-10.7.2📜 Pausanias 10.7.2📜 Pausanias 2.30.3📜 Pausanias 2.32.2📜 Pausanias 2.6.5-2.6.7📜 Pausanias 2.7.7-2.7.8📜 Pausanias 3.14.2📜 Pausanias 3.18.4-3.18.5📜 Pausanias 3.2.4📜 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📜 Pausanias 8.53.4📜 Pausanias 9.11.4-9.11.5📜 Pausanias 9.33.1-9.33.2📜 Pindar fr. 52d Snell-Maehler📜 Plutarch, Theseus 16.2📜 Plutarch, Theseus 16.3📜 Plutarch, Theseus 17.3📜 Plutarch, Theseus 17.5-17.6📜 Plutarch, Theseus 19.1📜 Plutarch, Theseus 19.4-19.7📜 Plutarch, Theseus 20.1📜 Plutarch, Theseus 20.3-20.4📜 Plutarch, Theseus 20.5📜 Plutarch, Theseus 21.1📜 Pomponius Mela 2.112📜 Ps-Lucian, The Patriot 10📜 Strabo 1.2.38-1.2.40📜 Strabo 10.3.11📜 Strabo 10.3.13📜 Strabo 10.3.19-10.3.20📜 Strabo 10.3.22📜 Strabo 10.4.15📜 Strabo 10.4.18📜 Strabo 10.4.19📜 Strabo 10.4.6📜 Strabo 10.4.8📜 Strabo 10.4.9📜 Strabo 12.8.5📜 Strabo 13.1.48📜 Strabo 14.1.19📜 Strabo 14.2.6-14.2.11📜 Strabo 14.3.10📜 Strabo 5.2.3-5.2.4📜 Strabo 6.3.2📜 Strabo 6.3.6📜 Strabo 7 fr. 7a Radt
- Mentioned in Text
- Cypria Homeric Hymn 2 to Demeter Homeric Hymn 3 to ApolloApollodoros, EpitomeApollodoros, LibraryBacchylides, DithyrambsBacchylidesCallimachus, Hymn to ArtemisCallimachus, Hymn to DelosCallimachus, Hymn to ZeusD-Scholia, IliadDionysios PeriegetesEuripides, HippolytosEuripides, Trojan WomenHesiod, EhoiaiHesiod, Idaian DactylsHesiod, TheogonyHomer, IliadHomer, OdysseyLucian, AnacharsisLucian, GoutLucian, On FuneralsLucian, Parliament of the GodsLucian, The DanceOvid, AmoresOvid, IbisOvid, MetamorphosesPalaiphatos, On Unbelievable StoriesPausaniasPindarPlutarch, TheseusPomponius MelaPs-Lucian, The PatriotStrabo