Lato (Ancient Greek: Λατώ[1]) was an ancient city of Crete, the ruins of which are located approximately 3 km from the small town of Kritsa. The Ancient Greek language is the historical stage in the development of the Hellenic language family spanning the Archaic (c Crete ( Greek: Κρήτη transliteration: Krētē, modern transliteration Kriti) is the largest of the Greek islands and the The kilometre ( American spelling: kilometer) symbol km is a unit of Length in the Metric system, equal to one thousand Kritsa is one of the oldest and most picturesque villages in Crete, Greece, built amphitheatrically on a rock hill named Kastellos, surrounded by The city was built in a defensible position overlooking Mirabello Bay between two peaks, both of which became acropolises to the city. Mirabello Bay is an embayment of the Sea of Crete on the eastern part of Crete in present day Greece. Acropolis (Gr akros akron edge extremity + polis city pl acropoleis Although the city probably predates the arrival of the Dorians, the ruins date mainly from the Dorian period (fifth and fourth centuries BC). The Dorians or Dorian Greeks ( Greek:, Dōrieis singular, Dōrieus were The 5th century BC started the first day of 500 BC and ended the last day of 401 BC. The 4th century BC started the first day of 400 BC and ended the last day of 301 BC. The city was destroyed ca. 200 BCE, but its port (Lato Etera or Lato pros Kamara), located near Agios Nikolaos was in use during Roman rule. Events By place Seleucid Empire Antiochus III's forces continue their invasion of Coele Syria and Palestine. Agios Nikolaos (or Aghios Nikolaos Greek: Άγιος Νικόλαος is a Coastal town on the Greek island of Crete, lying east of the Ancient Rome was a Civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC This has led to the confusion, repeated by Stephanus of Byzantium quoting Xenion, a Cretan historian, that Kamara and Lato were one and the same. Stephanus of Byzantium, also known as Stephanus Byzantinus ( Greek:; fl Lato pros Kamara or simply Kamara or Camara ( Ancient Greek:) or Lato Etera, was an ancient city of Crete, situated to the east of Modern scholarship distinguishes the two. [2]
There is some suggestion that the city was named after the goddess Leto (of which Lato is the usual Doric form) and may be mentioned in Linear B tablets as RA-TO[3]. Lētṓ ( Greek:, Λ&alphaτώ, Lato in Dorian Greek etymology and meaning disputed in Greek mythology, is a daughter of Linear B is a script that was used for writing Mycenaean, an early form of Greek. Lato also minted coins in antiquity,[4] bearing the likeness of the goddess Eileithyia who appears to have been the one particularly worshipped at Lato. Eileithyia (Εἰλείθυια was the Cretan goddess whom Greek mythology adapted as the goddess of childbirth and midwifery [5]
Nearchus, admiral of Alexander the Great, was born at Lato. Nearchus (or Nearchos) (c 360 - 300 BC was one of the officers a Navarch, in the army of Alexander the Great. Alexander the Great ( or, Mégas Aléxandros; July 20 356 BC June 10 or June 11 323 BC also known as Alexander III of Macedon (el Ἀλέξανδρος Γ' [6]
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- ^ Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnikon, s. Lato pros Kamara or simply Kamara or Camara ( Ancient Greek:) or Lato Etera, was an ancient city of Crete, situated to the east of Magasa is a Neolithic settlement on the eastern part of the island of Crete in present day Greece. Stephanus of Byzantium, also known as Stephanus Byzantinus ( Greek:; fl v. Kamara
- ^ Richard Talbert, Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World, (ISBN 0-691-03169-X), Map 60 & notes. Richard JA Talbert (born 1947 is a contemporary British-American ancient historian and classicist on the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World is a large-format atlas of ancient Europe, Asia, and North Africa, edited by Richard Talbert
- ^ Greek Ministry of Culture
- ^ C.Michael Hogan, Lato Fieldnotes, The Modern Antiquarian, Jan 10, 2008
- ^ Greek Ministry of Culture
- ^ Greek Ministry of Culture
- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography by William Smith (1856). The public domain is a range of abstract materials &ndash commonly referred to as Intellectual property &ndash which are not owned or controlled by anyone The Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, first published in 1854, was the last of a series of classical dictionaries edited by the English scholar Sir William Smith (1813 &ndash 1893 English Lexicographer, was born at Enfield in 1813 of Nonconformist parents
- Martha W. Baldwin Bowsky, Portrait of a Polis: Lato Pros Kamara (Crete) in the Late Second Century B. C. , Hesperia, Vol. 58, No. 3 (July - September 1989), pp. 331-47
- Greek Ministry of Culture
- Tourism website of the area
- Tourism website of the area
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