- In
Minoan times, the town of
Malia was the
closest metropolitan center.
Dictaean Cave is
famous in Gr****
mythology as the
place where Amalthea, nurtured...
- An
amphora from
Vulci depicting Laios, Keleos, Kerberos, and
Aigolios being stung by bees in the
Dictaean Cave...
-
another of the same name, or the
Dictaean cave.
Votive seals and
ivories have been
found in the cave. Like the
Dictaean cave, the
Idaean cave was known...
- The Hymn to
Dictaean Zeus, also
known as the Hymn of the Couretes, is an
Ancient Gr****
celebratory song in
praise of the god Zeus. It is
preserved on an...
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reports that it
belonged to the Eteocretes, and
contained the
temple of the
Dictaean Zeus, for
Mount Dicte was in the
territory of Praesus.
Strabo reports that...
- tweezers,
often found as
dedications to a deity, for example, in the
Dictaean Cavern of Crete. No
textiles have
survived other than
impressions in clay...
-
Cretan nymph, who gave
birth to the
metalworking Idaean Dactyls in the
Dictaean cave. She was also seen as a
Titan goddess and
perhaps represented the...
-
while Zeus,
still a
child and with the
thoughts of a child,
dwelt in the
Dictaean cave; and the
earthborn Cyclopes had not yet
armed him with the bolt, with...
- items.
Snake Goddess Phaistos Disc
Arkalochori Axe
Malia Pendant Hymn to
Dictaean Zeus
stele Minoan rhyton in form of a bull
Minoan jewelry Fresco fragment...
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Palaikastro is very
close to one of the main
traditional sites of the
Dictaean Cave
where Zeus grew up. The "young god" may have been a "vegetable god"...
