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- Cranae or Kranai (Gr****: Κρανάη [kraˈnai]) (also Marathonisi) is an island off the coast of Gytheio (ancient Gythium) connected to the land by a causeway...
- approximately 40 kilometres (25 miles) north of it. It is the site of ancient Cranae, a tiny island where, according to the myth, Paris and Helen spent their...
- and a patroness of digestion by Dumézil". In the Fasti of Ovid, the nymph Cranaë is raped by J****, a god otherwise portra**** by the poet as avuncular and...
- In Gr**** mythology, Cranaë (Ancient Gr****: Κρανάη) was an Athenian princess as daughter of King Cranaus and Pedias, the Lacedaemonian daughter of Mynes...
- here after the capture of Troy; but Strabo identifies it with the Homeric Cranae, to which Paris fled with Helen, and supposes that its name was hence changed...
- the autochthonous King Cranaus of Athens, who bore him three daughters: Cranaë, Cranaechme, and Atthis. Mynes, king of the city of Lyrnessus which was...
- striges away from the newborn prince was subsequently performed by the nymph Cranae (or goddess Carna), who owned a wand of whitethorn (spina), given to her...
- and Pedias, the Lacedaemonian daughter of Mynes. She was the sister of Cranaë and Cranaechme. When Attis died a virgin, her father Cranaus named in her...
- supplies were for Zacharias Barbitsiotis. Grigorakis resisted in the castle of Cranae, which the Ottomans could not demolish, despite the 2,000 cannonballs thrown...
- of Sparta), and Paris spent their first night together on the island of Cranae, off the coast of Gytheio. During the 12th century BC, the Dorians invaded...