Olous or Olus (Ancient Greek: Ὄλους,[1][2] or Ὄλουλις[3] is an ancient, sunken city situated at the present day town of Elounda, Crete, Greece. The Ancient Greek language is the historical stage in the development of the Hellenic language family spanning the Archaic (c Elounda ( Greek: Ελούντα alternative transliteration Elounta or "Elouda" road-sign transliteration "Elounda" or "Elounta" Crete ( Greek: Κρήτη transliteration: Krētē, modern transliteration Kriti) is the largest of the Greek islands and the Greece (Ελλάδα transliterated: Elláda, historically, Ellás,) officially the Hellenic Republic (Ελληνική Δημοκρατία
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History
After continuing boundary disputes with the hillfort of Lato,[4] the citizens of Olous eventually entered into a treaty with those of Lato. Lato ( Ancient Greek:) was an ancient city of Crete, the ruins of which are located approximately 3 km from the small town of Kritsa. [5] There was a temple to Britomartis in the city, a wooden statue of whom was erected by Daedalus, the mythical ancestor of the Daedalidae, and father of Cretan art. For the Butterfly Genus, see Britomartis (butterfly. Britomartis is among the Minoan goddess figures that passed through the This article is about the mythological character For other uses see Daedalus (disambiguation. [6] Her effigy is represented on the coins of Olous. An effigy is a representation of a person especially in the form of Sculpture. [7]
Present conditions
Archaeologists discovered ancient texts within the ruins linking the town the ancient cities of Knossos and the island of Rhodes. Archaeology, archeology, or archæology (from Greek grc ἀρχαιολογία archaiologia – grc ἀρχαῖος archaīos Knossos (alternative spellings Knossus, Cnossus, Greek Κνωσός kno̞ˈso̞s also known as the Knossos Palace is the largest Rhodes (Ρόδος Ródos, ˈɾo̞ðo̞s Rodi ردوس Rodos; Ladino: Rodi or Rodes) is a Greek island The sunken city can be visited by tourists swimming in Elounda Bay. Today, the only visible remnants of the city are some scattered wall bases.
Line notes
- ^ Scyl. p. Scylax of Caryanda was an ancient Greek explorer from Caria. He lived during the 6th century BC 19, Xenion, ap. Steph. B. s. Stephanus of Byzantium, also known as Stephanus Byzantinus ( Greek:; fl v.
- ^ Ptol. iii. Claudius Ptolemaeus ( Greek: Klaúdios Ptolemaîos; after 83 &ndash ca 17. § 5
- ^ Stadiasm. 350
- ^ C.Michael Hogan, Lato Fieldnotes, The Modern Antiquarian, Jan 10, 2008
- ^ Böckh, Inscr. vol. ii. No. 2554.
- ^ Pausan. ix. Pausanias ( Greek:) was a Greek traveller and Geographer of the 2nd century CE, who lived in the times of Hadrian, Antoninus 40. § 3.
- ^ Eckhel, vol. ii. p. 316; Mionnet, Descr. vol. ii. p. 289; Combe, Mus. Hunter.
References
- 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
- Tourist site of the Spina Longa area
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