place
Crete
The great southern island 'of a hundred cities', a possible destination of the captives.
Reading notes
- Agamemnon §864 the Dictaean fields
Crete (Mount Dicte), home of the bull Hercules captured.
- Hercules on Oeta §1869 let blue-sea Crete weep
Crete, birthplace of Jupiter, called on to mourn Hercules with its hundred peoples.
- Natural Questions §3.11.5 the island of Crete
The great Aegean island; site of a city called Arcadia whose springs failed and returned with cultivation.
- Natural Questions §3.29.8 Crete
The great Aegean island, whose gulf is named among the seas to be effaced.
- Phaedra §85 Crete
The great island kingdom of Minos, Phaedra's homeland.
- The Trojan Women §866 Crete
The great southern island 'of a hundred cities,' a possible destination of the captives.