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Cnossus

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Cnossus

Alternative form of Knossos, city of ancient Crete.
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495-6) at Cnossus and a Cretan month bearing the same name.
Collection Of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica by Homer View in context
There is a great town there, Cnossus, where Minos reigned who every nine years had a conference with Jove himself.
The Odyssey by Homer View in context
The famous spearsman Idomeneus led the Cretans, who held Cnossus, and the well-walled city of Gortys; Lyctus also, Miletus and Lycastus that lies upon the chalk; the populous towns of Phaestus and Rhytium, with the other peoples that dwelt in the hundred cities of Crete.
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