place
Cnossos
also: Κνωσός, Knossos, Minoan Cnossos
The great Cretan city; Apollo, in the form of a dolphin, seizes a Cretan ship out of Cnossos and drives it to Crisa to make its crew his first priests.
Reading notes
- The Homeric Hymns §3.386 Cnossos
The great Cretan city; Apollo, in the form of a dolphin, seizes a Cretan ship out of Cnossos and drives it to Crisa to make its crew his first priests.
- The Odyssey §19.165 Cnossos
Crete's great city, where Minos ruled in nine-year terms as the companion of Zeus. The disguised Odysseus makes it his birthplace, claiming Deucalion as his father and Idomeneus as his brother.