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Listed 5 sub titles with search on: Mythology  for wider area of: "SELINO Province CHANIA" .


Mythology (5)

Eponymous founders or settlers

Catreus

KATRI (Ancient city) KANDANOS
Son of Tegeates from Arcadia

Founders

Archedius

Son of Tegeates.

Gods & heroes related to the location

Menelaus

For nine days he (Paris) was entertained by Menelaus; but on the tenth day, Menelaus having gone on a journey to Crete to perform the obsequies of his mother's father Catreus, Alexander persuaded Helen to go off with him. And she abandoned Hermione, then nine years old, and putting most of the property on board, she set sail with him by night

Heroes

Phylacides & Philander

ELYROS (Ancient city) ANATOLIKO SELINO
On the mountains of Crete there is still in my time a city called Elyrus. Now the citizens sent to Delphi a bronze goat, which is suckling the babies, Phylacides and Philander. The Elyrians say that these were children of Apollo by the nymph Acacallis, and that Apollo mated with Acacallis in the house of Carmanor in the city of Tarrha.

Historic figures

Catreus

KATRI (Ancient city) KANDANOS
son of Minos: Apollod. 3.1.2

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