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Pausanias, Description of Greece | 86 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation | 44 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Apollodorus, Library and Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer) | 42 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Plato, Laws | 42 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Aristotle, Politics | 40 | 0 | Browse | Search |
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More) | 36 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) | 32 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Homer, Odyssey | 28 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Polybius, Histories | 26 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Homer, The Odyssey (ed. Samuel Butler, Based on public domain edition, revised by Timothy Power and Gregory Nagy.) | 24 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Browsing named entities in Euripides, Hippolytus (ed. David Kovacs). You can also browse the collection for Crete (Greece) or search for Crete (Greece) in all documents.
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Euripides, Hippolytus (ed. David Kovacs), line 151 (search)
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Or is it your husband, the nobly born king of the Erechtheid Athenians? Does some other woman rule his passion, someone in the palace, making love to him apart from your bed? Or has some sailor from Crete put in at that harbor most hospitable to sailors bearing news to the queen, and is her soul for this reason bound bedfast in grief over her misfortunes?
Euripides, Hippolytus (ed. David Kovacs), line 752 (search)
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O Cretan vessel with wing of white canvas, that ferried over the loud-sounding wave of the sea my lady from her house of blessedness, a boon that was no boon to make an unhappy bride: it was with evil omen, at the start of her journey and its end, that she sped from the land of Crete to glorious Athens and they tied the plaited ends of the mooring-cable on Munichus' shoreMunichus was the eponymous hero of the Athenian port of Munichion. and trod the mainland.