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KRANAI (Island) GYTHIO

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Cranae

  Cranae (Kranae), an island in the Laconian gulf, opposite Gytheium, whither Paris carried off Helen from Sparta. This little island, now called Marathonisi, is described by a modern traveller as low and flat, and at the distance of only 100 yards from the shore. The ruined foundation of a temple supports at present a Greek chapel. (Hom. Il. iii. 442; Paus. iii. 22. § 1; Walpole's Memoirs, vol. i. p. 58.)

Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD)
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Cranae

Kranae. The island to which Paris first carried Helen from Peloponnesus. Its locality is uncertain, but some identify it with Cythera.

Perseus: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)
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Paris stayed here with the Beautiful Helen. The Phonenicians set up a work shop for the elaboration of porphyra. Janetakis Tower, the tower of the famous family of the Gregorakedes, is in the middle of the islet ( It houses the Historical and Ethnological museum of Mani). The islet in 1898 was linked with the mainland by a platform.

This text is cited Apr 2003 from the Laconian Professionals URL below, which contains image.

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