- Axus or Axos (Ancient Gr****: Ἄξος), also
Oaxus or
Oaxos (Ὄαξος) and
Waxus or
Waxos (Ϝάξος), was a city and
polis (city-state) of
ancient Crete. According...
- in the
Diktaion cave by the
Nymph Ankhiale as she
clutched the
earth of
Oaxos [in Krete] with both her hands."
Pliny the Elder.
Naturalis Historia, Book...
- In Gr**** mythology,
Oaxes or
Oaxos (Ancient Gr****: Ὄαξος) was the
founder of the town of
Oaxus within Crete, a
place known to
Servius and Herodotus. He...
- Axus may
refer to: Axus or Axos,
Oaxus or
Oaxos,
Waxus or Waxos, a city and
polis (city-state) of
ancient Crete Benjamin Axus (born 1994),
French judoka...
-
Etearchus was the King of the
ancient Cretan city of Axus or
Oaxos,
flourishing in the
early 7th
century BC.
According to Herodotus, at one
point Etearchus...
-
Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, p. 4 Steph**** of Byzantium, s.v.
Oaxos (Ὄαξος)
Scholia on
Apollonius Rhodius, 4.1492 Pausanias, 10.16.5 Antoninus...
-
villagers from the
village Axos,
which is west of Anogia,
where the
Minoan city
Oaxos was.
According to a legend, a
shepherd from Axos
found one day on one of...
- have been
proposed as
having Cretan origin (Gortynia - Gortys,
Axius -
Oaxos,
Europos -
Europa etc.) but
nothing is conclusive.
Various origins have...
- the
village had 385 residents. It
contains remains of the
ancient city of
Oaxo or Axo (in Gr****, Ὄαξος, Ϝάξος or Ἄξος). The city's name is do****ented on...
