Crete

Here this part of the fleet was driven on to the rocks and wrecked;

Idomeneus, again, lost no men at sea, and all his followers who escaped death in the field got safe home with him to Crete.

"Then I saw Phaedra, and Procris, and fair Ariadne daughter of the magician Minos, whom Theseus was carrying off from Crete to Athens, but he did not enjoy her, for before he could do so Artemis killed her in the island of Dia on account of what Bacchus had said against her.

Now there was a dispute in Crete about the royal power between Sarpedon and Minos, sons of Europa;

The Lycians were from Crete in ancient times (for in the past none that lived on Crete were Greek).

There is a town in Crete called Oaxus, of which one Etearchus became ruler.

"For they say that Lycurgus was an admirer of Homer, and that he first brought the poetry from Crete or from Ionia into Greece.

They say an ancient queen of the Heliadae in Crete loved a bull, and consorting with it bore a grievous and great monster.

She made you an exile, brought you to Athens, introduced you to Antisthenes, sold you into Crete.

the populous towns of Phaistos and Rhytium, with the other peoples that dwelt in the hundred cities of Crete.

Often did Menelaos receive him as a guest in our house when he came visiting us from Crete.

Deukalion begot me to be a ruler over many men in Crete, and my ships have now brought me hither, to be the bane of yourself, your father, and the Trojans.

The commander therefore of the squadron went with it to Crete, and in conjunction with the Polichnitae laid waste the territory of the Cydonians;

For Nicias, a Cretan of Gortys, who was their proxenus, persuaded them to sail against Cydonia, telling them that he would reduce it under their power;

Not long after their retreat, the Athenians from Crete arrived at Naupactus, with the twenty ships that were to have joined Phormio before the engagement.

Demeter, bright goddess, was joined in sweet love with 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.

To that place came Earth carrying him swiftly through the black night to Lyctus first, and took him in her arms and hid him in a remote cave beneath the secret places of the holy earth on thick-wooded Mount Aegeum;

And there were also two other sculptors, Cretans, I think (they were named Scyllis and Dipoenus);

Anticleides, in his Returns, declares that the Lyctians (these are a Cretan people) slaughter men to Zeus;

Zeus himself partook of a human table among the Ethiopians, and of an inhuman and lawless one, feasted by Lycaon the Arcadian;

'Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, idle bellies';

Plato, for instance, says that this manner was of old in vogue, commonly among all the Greeks, but especially among the Spartans and the Cretans, who had the best laws.

O secret chamber of the Kouretes and you holy Cretan caves, parents to Zeus, where the Korybantes with triple helmet invented for me in their caves this circle, covered with stretched hide;

Why should I tell you about our losses in the Aegean, and Nauplios’ beacons on Euboia, and my visits to Crete and the cities of Libya, and the mountain-peaks of Perseus?

For it is no longer uncertain where the star of thy love is setting, thou hapless daughter of Crete.

For never, never will I bring shame upon my Cretan home, nor will I, to save one poor life, face Theseus after my disgrace.

Surely evil omens from either port, at least from Crete, were with that ship, what time to glorious Athens it sped its way, and the crew made fast its twisted cable-ends upon the beach of
 Munychus, and on the land stept out.

from Atreus and Aerope of Crete were born the famous Agamemnon, if he really was famous, and Menelaus.

and you, villain, left him behind in your house, and sailed away from Sparta to the land of Crete.

You know that Macartatus sold his land and bought a trireme which he manned and sailed away in it to Crete.

At about the same time appeared the monster reared in Crete, the offspring of Pasipha, daughter of Helius, to whom our city was sending, in accordance with an oracle’s command, tribute of twice seven children.

Having embarked with them for Crete, he subdued this monster, half-man and half-bull, which possessed strength commensurate with its composite origin, and having rescued the children, he restored them to their parents, and thus freed the city from an obligation so savage, so terrible, and so ineluctable.

First they took the islands of the Cyclades, about which there had been much contention during the overlordship of Minos of Crete and which finally were occupied by the Carians, and, having driven out the latter, refrained from appropriating the lands of these islands for themselves, but instead settled upon them those of the Hellenes who were most lacking in means of subsistence.

But you preferred neither Lacedaemon nor Crete, which you are always saying are well governed, nor any other of the Greek states, or of the foreign ones, but you went away from this city less than the lame and the blind and the other cripples.

This is the ship, as the Athenians say, in which Theseus once went to Crete with the fourteen youths and maidens, and saved them and himself.

And after this Menelaus sails off to Crete, charging Helen to provide the strangers with what they need until they depart.

Thus not even Jupiter would allow his own Crete to be shaken by the Roman fasces, forgetful of that Idaean cave and the Corybantian bronze and the most pleasant odor of his nurse there.

He, Apollo's son, as much a man as a grandson of Jupiter, great-grandson of Saturn (or rather a bastard, as of uncertain father, as the Argive Socrates reported, since exposed and found, more basely brought up by Jupiter, namely at a canine udder), deservedly — which no one can deny — was drained off by a thunderbolt.

But Jupiter, surely, would not at once have suffered his own Crete to be shaken by the Roman fasces, forgetting that Idaean cave and the Corybantian bronze and the most delightful fragrance of his nurse there.