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KYDONIA (Ancient city) CHANIA
...Then the Samians took from the men of Hermione, instead of money, the island
Hydrea which is near to the Peloponnesus, and gave it to men of Troezen for safekeeping;
they themselves settled at Cydonia in Crete, though their voyage had been made
with no such intent, but rather to drive Zacynthians out of the island. Here they
stayed and prospered for five years; indeed, the temples now at Cydonia and the
shrine of Dictyna are the Samians' work; but in the sixth year Aeginetans and
Cretans came and defeated them in a sea-fight and made slaves of them; moreover
they cut off the ships' prows, that were shaped like boars' heads, and dedicated
them in the temple of Athena in Aegina. The Aeginetans did this out of a grudge
against the Samians; for previously the Samians, in the days when Amphicrates
was king of Samos, sailing in force against Aegina, had hurt the Aeginetans and
been hurt by them. This was the cause.
POLICHNI (Ancient city) CHANIA
Minos, it is said, went to Sicania, which is now called Sicily, in search for Daedalus, and perished there by a violent death. Presently all the Cretans except the men of Polichne and Praesus were bidden by a god to go with a great host to Sicania.
Commentary: If the men of Polichne and Praisos took no part with Minos, then presumably they were no subjects of his. Polichne was near Kydonia (Kanea) but not on good terms with it (in 429 B.C.); cp. Thuc. 2. 85. 5 (though possibly friends with Gortyn).
KYDONIA (Ancient city) CHANIA
Some say that the Jews were fugitives from the island of Crete, who
settled on the nearest coast of Africa about the time when Saturn was driven from
his throne by the power of Jupiter. Evidence of this is sought in the name. There
is a famous mountain in Crete called Ida; the neighbouring tribe, the Idaei, came
to be called Judaei by a barbarous lengthening of the national name.
APTERA (Ancient city) SOUDA
City of Crete, Apteraean archers.
ELYROS (Ancient city) ANATOLIKO SELINO
City of Crete, people of E. dedicate bronze goat at Delphi.
KYDONIA (Ancient city) CHANIA
City in Crete, founded by Samians, named after Cydon, besieged by Phalaecus.
TARRA (Ancient city) SFAKIA
On the mountains of Crete there is still in my time a city called Elyrus. Now the citizens sent to Delphi a bronze goat, which is suckling the babies, Phylacides and Philander. The Elyrians say that these were children of Apollo by the nymph Acacallis, and that Apollo mated with Acacallis in the house of Carmanor in the city of Tarrha.
FALASARNA (Ancient city) CHANIA
In Crete, while Cydas son of Antalces was Cosmus, the Gortynians,
who sought in every way to depress the Gnossians, deprived them of a portion of
their territory called Lycastium, and assigned it to the Rhaucii, and another
portion called Diatonium to the Lyctii. But when about this time Appius and his
colleagues arrived in the island from Rome, with the view of settling the controversies
which existed among them, and addressed remonstrances to the cities of Gnossus
and Gortyn on these points, the Cretans gave in, and submitted the settlement
of their disputes to Appius. He accordingly ordered the restoration of their territory
to the Gnossians; and that the Cydoniates should receive back the hostages which
they had formerly left in the hands of Charmion, and should surrender Phalasarna,
without taking anything out of it. As to sharing in the legal jurisdiction of
the whole island, he left it free to the several cities to do so or not as they
pleased, on condition that in the latter case they abstained from entering the
rest of Crete, they and the exiles from Phalasarna who murdered Menochius and
his friends, their most illustrious citizens.
AMPHIMALION (Ancient city) GEORGIOUPOLI
. . .then comes an isthmus of about one hundred stadia, which, on the northern sea, has a settlement called Amphimalla
APTERA (Ancient city) SOUDA
Cydonia is situated on the sea, facing Laconia, and is equidistant, about eight hundred stadia, from the two cities Cnossus and Gortyn, and is eighty stadia distant from Aptera, and forty from the sea in that region. The seaport of Aptera is Cisamus.
FALASARNA (Ancient city) CHANIA
As for its (Crete) two extremities, the western is in the neighborhood of Phalasarna; it has a breadth of about two hundred stadia and is divided into two promontories (of these the southern is called Criumetopon, the northern Cimarus), whereas the eastern is Samonium
KISAMOS (Ancient city) SOUDA
The seaport of Aptera is Cisamus (Strab. 10,4,13).
KYDONIA (Ancient city) CHANIA
And neither is Callimachus right, they say, when he says that Britomartis, in her flight from the violence of Minos, leaped from Dicte into fishermen's "nets," and that because of this she herself was called Dictynna by the Cydoniatae, and the mountain Dicte; for Cydonia is not in the neighborhood of these places at all, but lies near the western limits of the island. However, there is a mountain called Tityrus in Cydonia, on which is a temple, not the "Dictaean" temple, but the "Dictynnaean."
Cydonia is situated on the sea, facing Laconia, and is equidistant, about eight hundred stadia, from the two cities Cnossus and Gortyn, and is eighty stadia distant from Aptera, and forty from the sea in that region. The seaport of Aptera is Cisamus. The territory of the Polyrrhenians borders on that of the Cydoniatae towards the west, and the temple of Dictynna is in their territory.
There are several cities in Crete, but the greatest and most famous are three: Cnossus, Gortyna and Cydonia.
POLYRRINIA (Ancient city) CHANIA
The territory.of the Polyrrhenians borders on that of the Cydoniatae towards the west, and the temple of Dictynna is in their territory. They are about thirty stadia distant from the sea, and sixty from Phalasarna. They lived in villages in earlier times; and then Achaeans and Laconians made a common settlement, building a wall round a place that was naturally strong and faced towards the south.
KYDONIA (Ancient city) CHANIA
For Nicias, a Cretan of Gortys, who was Proxenus of the Athenians,
had persuaded them to sail against Cydonia, promising to procure the reduction
of that hostile town; his real wish being to oblige the Polichnitans, neighbors
of the Cydonians. He accordingly went with the ships to Crete, and, accompanied
by the Polichnitans, laid waste the lands of the Cydonians; and, what with adverse
winds and stress of weather, wasted no little time there. While the Athenians
were thus detained in Crete...
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