of Caeratus, the river was the Amnisos during the Bronze Age. Across from its mouth is a very small island called Amnisos. The river begins on Mount Ida...
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childbirth and midwifery, and the daughter of Zeus and Hera. In the cave of Amnisos (Crete) she was related with the annual birth of the divine child, and...
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Gouves, Greece (section Amnisos)
are the tourist resorts of Kokkíni Háni (also spelled Háni Kokkíni) and Amnísos, both with similar attractions, and, to the east, Crete's largest resort...
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Callirhoe, second wife of Alcmaeon Acmenes Stadium in Olympia, Elis Amnisiades Amnisos River on the island of Crete entered the retinue of Artemis Anigrides Anigros...
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Dikte (Corybantian Dicte) she beheld the child bed water of neighbouring Amnisos, the fickle deity met her there on the hills; for she was fond of the Kretans...
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especially in Crete and Laconia. During the Bronze Age, in the cave of Amnisos, she was related to the annual birth of the divine child. In the Minoan...
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other elite buildings. Known examples include the Villa of the Lilies at Amnisos, two houses at Tylissos, and several of the houses surrounding the palace...
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received offerings in the cave of the goddess of childbirth Eileithyia at Amnisos in Crete. Poseidon is allied with Potnia and the divine child. Wa-na-ssa...
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Syllas • Gournes Temenous • Sillamos • Ammoudara • Kallithea • Skafidaras • Amnisos • Karteros • Skalani • Ano Kalesia • Kato Kalesia • Vasilies • Athanati...
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ship stops prior to several Cretan cities such as Kydonia, Phaistos, and Amnisos, showing that the term clearly refers to the Aegean. Avim Genesis 10:13-14...
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of the most important centres of Crete. The city had two ports, one at Amnisos and another at Heraklion. According to the ancient geographer Strabo the...
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bearing a daughter, the unnamable Despoina (the mistress). In the cave of Amnisos at Crete, the goddess Eileithyia is related with the annual birth of the...
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references an ancient Greek goddess of childbirth, Eileithyia, worshipped in Amnisos (on the island of Crete) and nicknamed Ἀμνιάς (Amnias). In the human embryo...
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cult of Eileithyia at Crete, and the cult of Despoina. In the cave of Amnisos at Crete, Eileithyia is related with the annual birth of the divine child...
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Pedasus The Amnisiades Amnisus River, Crete daughters of the river god Amnisos who served as handmaidens of the goddess Artemis The Asopides Asopus River...
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Turkey Samsun Amisus, Eis Amison, Samsunta, Samsus, Samson, Samsounta Amnisos Crete, Greece Phocis, Greece Amphicaea Boeotia, Greece Amfikleia Amphicleia...
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of the goddess in the Minoan and probably Mycenean cult. In the cave of Amnisos, Enesidaon is associated with the cult of Eileithyia, the goddess of childbirth...
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shore. This would make a Minoan harbor at Kommos similar to the harbor at Amnisos. [1] Reconstructing Murex Royal Purple and Biblical Blue in the Aegean...
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are: Knossos Phaistos Hagia Triada Kommos Gortys Tylissos Malia Lyttos Amnisos Kaloi Limenes The regional unit Heraklion is subdivided into 8 municipalities...
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* Aesepus ✓ ✓ Troad ✓ Almo ✓ ✓ Latium * Alpheus ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ Arcadia ✓ Amnisos ✓ Apollonius, Callimachus Crete * Amphrysos ✓ ✓ Thessaly * Anapus ✓ ✓ Nonnus...
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epithet of Poseidon was e-ne-si-da-o-ne ("earth-shaker") and in the cave of Amnisos (Crete) Enesidaon is related to the cult of Eileithyia. She was a goddess...
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the strategos of the Cibyrrhaeots, Craterus. The Byzantines landed at Amnisos where the Arabs were waiting for them. A bloody and fierce battle ensued...
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Crete, 110 km (68 mi) away. The tsunami affected coastal towns such as Amnisos, where building walls were knocked out of alignment. On the island of Anafi...
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representations can be found as far back as frescos from the second century BC, at Amnisos and Knossos. Early Christian churches, such as that of the Basilica of...
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Retrieved 2017-03-02.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Amnisos - Harbour town of Minos? by Jorg Schafer, p. 4. Shaw, Joseph W.; Shaw,...
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Egyptianising features represented in fragments of a Middle Minoan fresco at Amnisos, northeast of Knossos. In the east wing of the palace at Phaistos, Maria...
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official). His early excavations on Crete included the Minoan villa at Amnisos, and he continued to excavate on the island periodically between 1919 and...
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standing female. The cave is located one kilometer south of the town of Amnisos. The cave is mentioned in Odysseus's Cretan narrative to Penelope in the...
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Suggestions that the building was a "cult villa," similar to those of Nirou, Amnisos, Kannia and Vathypetro have not been proven. The finds at Makriyialos site...
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Epidaurus¹ Epidaurus Gythium Gytheion Heracleium¹ the port of Knossos, perhaps Amnisos, east of modern Iraklion, Crete (the name Iraklion/Herakleion for the medieval...
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