Heraklion Regional Unit. Lyktos appears in the Homeric catalogue. According to Hesiod, Theogony (477-484), Rhea gave birth to Zeus in Lyktos and hid him in a...

can "presumably ... be identified with one of the various mountains near Lyktos". Hansen, p. 67; Hard 2004, p. 68; Smith, s.v. Zeus; Gantz, p. 41; Hesiod...

(Δαμναμενεύς) Dexithea (Δεξιθέα), mother of Euxanthios by Minos Lycos (Λύκος) or Lyktos (Λύκτος) Lysagora (Λυσαγόρα)? Makelo (Μακελώ) Megalesius (Μεγαλήσιος) Mylas...

half-brother Aeacus. The wife of this "Minos I" was said to be Itone (daughter of Lyktos) or Crete (a nymph or daughter of his stepfather Asterion), and he had a...

Chalcis, Calydon 2.645 Cretans 80 Idomeneus, Meriones Knossos, Gortys, Lyktos, Miletus, Lycastus, Phaistos, Rhytium, others up to 100 2.653 Rhodians 9...

(city-state) on the north coast of ancient Crete. It functioned as the harbour of Lyktos, and had a temple of Britomartis, According to the Stadiasmus Maris Magni...

Byzantium. However, Stephanus appears to refer to this city as a dependent of Lyktos which has been taken as evidence of a location further east. Scholars have...

of Andraemon and Gorge Calydon Cretans • Knossos • Gortys • Lycastus • Lyktos • Miletus • Phaistos • Rhytium Idomeneus son of Deucalion and Cleopatra...

birth cave of Zeus better than the Dictaean cave, which lies farther from Lyktos (modern Castelli Pediados), mentioned by Hesiod, was made from the start...

at the Institute for Advanced Study. Chaniotis is the co-director of the Lyktos Archaeological Project. In 2000 the German state of Baden-Württemberg awarded...

Phoenix. Polybius reports that Lappa provided refuge to the population of Lyktos after their city was destroyed by Knossos. Dio Cassius claims that Lappa...