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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 Hesiod, Theogony. You can also browse the collection for Crete (Greece) or search for Crete (Greece) in all documents.
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And now farewell, you dwellers on Olympus, and you islands and continents, and you briny sea within.Now sing the company of goddesses, sweet-voiced Muses of Olympus, daughter of Zeus who holds the aegis,—even those deathless ones who lay with mortal men and bore children like gods.
Demeter, bright goddess, was joined in sweet lovewith the hero Iasion in a thrice-ploughed fallow in the rich land of Crete, and bore Plutus, a kindly god who goes everywhere over land and the sea's wide back, and he makes rich the man who finds him and into whose hands he comes, bestowing great wealth upon him.
And Harmonia, the daughter of golden Aphrodite, bore to Cadmus Ino and Semele and fair-cheeked Agave and Autonoe whom long haired Aristaeus wedded, and Polydorus also in rich-crowned Thebes.
And the daughter of Ocean, Callirrhoewas joined in the love of rich Aphrodite with stout-hearted Chrysaor and bore a son who was the strongest of all men, Geryones, whom mighty Heracles killed in sea-girt Eryth