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Just about three stades from Ciythium is an unwrought stone. Legend has it that when Orestes sat down upon it his madness left him. For this reason the stone was named in the Dorian tongue Zeus Cappotas. Before Gythium lies the island Cranae, and Homer1 says that when Alexander had carried off Helen he had intercourse with her there for the first time. On the mainland opposite the island is a sanctuary of Aphrodite Migonitis (Union), and the whole place is called Migonium.

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    • Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus, 195
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    • Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), CRANAE
    • Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), GYTHIUM
    • Smith's Bio, Migoni'tis
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