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2404 from Greek and Roman Materials

1. The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (eds. Marian Holland McAllister, Richard Stillwell, William L. MacDonald) alphabetic letter P
   R. Pashley, Travels in Crete (1837; repr. 1970) I.48-49, 53-56, II.44-50; T.A.B. Spratt, Travels and Researches in Crete II (1865) 211-15I; L. Thenon, “Fragments d'une description de l'Ile de Crète, III: Polyrrhénie,” RA (NS) 15 (1867) 416-27; J.-N. Svoronos, Numismatique de la Crète ancienne (1890; repr. 1972) 274-84 and Suppl. p. 373; L. Savignoni, MonAnt 11 (1901) 314-48MPI; G. de Sanctis, ibid., 474-94; M. Guarducci, ICr II (1939) 237-67; V. D. Theophanidis, ArchEph 81-83 (1942-44) Chronika 17-31; H. van Effenterre, La Crète et le monde grec de Platon à polybe (1948); E. Kirsten, “Polyrrhenia,” RE XXI (1952) 2530-48; R. F. Willetts, Aristocratic Society in Ancient Crete (1955). (26.20)

2. The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (eds. Marian Holland McAllister, Richard Stillwell, William L. MacDonald) alphabetic letter H
   T.A.B. Spratt, Travels and Researches in Crete I (1865) 253-88I; L. Mariani, MonAnt 6 (1895) 319-21; Bürchner, “Hierapytna,” RE VIII (1913) 1405-7; K. Lehmann-Hartleben, “Die antiken Hafenlagen des Mittelmeeres,” Klio Beih. 14 (1923) 201-2P; M. Guarducci, ICr III (1942) 18-74, 131-33; E. Kirsten, “Oleros,” RE XVII, 2 (1937) 2451-53; H. van Effenterre, La Crète et le monde grec de Platon à Polybe (1948); R. F. Willetts, Aristocratic Society in Ancient Crete (1955); id., Cretan Cults and Festivals (1962); S. Spanakis, Crete: A Guide I (n.d.) 269-70, 363-67M; S. Spyridakis, Ptolemaic Itanos and Hellenistic Crete (1970). (21.83)

3. Strabo, Geography book 10, chapter 4, section 18
   Lycurgus the Spartan law-giver, Ephorus continues, was five generations later than the Althaemenes who conducted the colony to Crete; for historians say that Althaemenes was son of the Cissus who founded Argos about the same time when Procles was establishing Sparta as metropolis; and Lycurgus, as is agreed by all, was sixth in descent from Procles; and copies are not earlier than their models, nor more recent things earlier than older things; not only the dancing which is customary among the Lacedaemonians, but also the rhythms and paeans that are sung according to law, and many other Spartan institutions, are called "Cretan" among the Lacedaemonians, as though they originated in Crete; and some of the public offices are not only administered in the same way as in Crete, but also have the same names, as, for instance, the office of the "Gerontes," and that of the "Hippeis" (except that the "Hippeis" in Crete actually possessed horses, and from this fact it is inferred that the office of the "Hippeis" in Crete is older, for they preserve the true meaning of the appellation, whereas the Lacedaemonian "Hippeis" do not keep horses); but though the Ephors have the same functions as the Cretan Cosmi, they have been named differently; and the public messes are, even today, still called "Andreia" among the Cretans, but among the Spartans they ceased to be called by the same name as in earlier times; at any rate, the following is found in Alcman:In feasts and festive gatherings, amongst the guests who partake of the Andreia, 'tis meet to begin the paean
   It is said by the Cretans, Ephorus continues, that Lycurgus came to them for the following reason: Polydectes was the elder brother of Lycurgus; when he died he left his wife pregnant; now for a time Lycurgus reigned in his brother's place, but when a child was born he became the child's guardian, since the office of king descended to the child, but some man, railing at Lycurgus, said that he knew for sure that Lycurgus would be king; and Lycurgus, suspecting that in consequence of such talk he himself might be falsely accused of plotting against the child, and fearing that, if by any chance the child should die, he himself might be blamed for it by his enemies, sailed away to Crete; this, then, is said to be the cause of his sojourn in Crete; and when he arrived he associated with Thales, a melic poet and an expert in lawgiving; and after learning from him the manner in which both Rhadamanthys in earlier times and Minos in later times published their laws to men as from Zeus, and after sojourning in Egypt also and learning among other things their institutions, and, according to some writers, after meeting Homer, who was living in Chios, he sailed back to his homeland, and found his brother's son, Charilaüs the son of Polydectes, reigning as king; and then he set out to frame the laws, making visits to the god at Delphi, and bringing thence the god's decrees, just as Minos and his house had brought their ordinances from the cave of Zeus, most of his being similar to theirs. (20.18)

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2 from Peachum's Garden of Eloquence

1. Henry Peachum., The Garden of Eloquence (1593): Schemas part Schemates Rhetorical, subpart The third order, section Collectio, subsection Emphasis
   whereby is signified, not simply a man borne in Crete, but any other dissembler, after the nature and disposition of that nation. (2.00)

2. Henry Peachum., The Garden of Eloquence (1593): Schemas part Schemates Rhetorical, subpart The third order, section Comparatio, subsection Peristasis
   Countrey: To be borne in Crete and to hate the vice of lying is praise worthy. (1.95)

14 from Renaissance Materials

1. Alexander Schmidt, Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary entry Hound
   (h. of Crete). (5.52)

2. William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream (eds. W. Aldis Wright, W. G. Clark) act 4, scene 1, line 100
   The. A cry more tuneable
   
   
   Was never holla'd to, nor cheer'd with horn,
   
   
   In Crete, in Sparta, nor in Thessaly:
   
   
   Judge when you hear.
   (5.24)

3. William Shakespeare, King Henry VI. Part I. (eds. W. Aldis Wright, W. G. Clark) act 4, scene 6, line 54
   Tal. Then follow thou thy desperate sire of Crete,
   
   
   Thou Icarus: thy life to me is sweet:
   
   
   If thou wilt fight, fight by thy father's side;
   
   
   And, commendable proved, let's die in pride.
   (5.24)

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12 from The Bolles Collection on the History of London

1. Sidney Lee, Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome alphabetic letter P, entry 23807
   barrister and traveller; fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1830; M.A., 1832; barrister, 1837; published ‘Travels in Crete’ (1837), having toured in Asia Minor, Crete, and Greece, 1833. [xliii. (5.62)

2. Sidney Lee, Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome alphabetic letter C, entry 6530
   mathematician; bookseller's apprentice in Oxford; clerk in Prince Charles's kitchen; served at sea off Crete, 1642-9; mathematical teacher in London; published mathematical treatises, 1652-9; government clerk, 1660-72; F.R.S., 1667; published pamphlets on trade, 1680-2; his large scientific correspondence partly printed, 1712. [xi. (3.84)

3. Sidney Lee, Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome alphabetic letter B, entry 4087
   African traveller; educated at Harrow; engaged in the Portuguese wine trade, 1753; visited Spain and Portugal, 1754; studied Arabic and Ethiopic; studied antiquities in Italy, especially at Pæstum; consul at Algiers, 1763, with a mission to study antiquities; made an archæological tour in Barbary, 1765; shipwrecked near Crete; visited Palmyra and Baalbec; reached Egypt, 1768; sailed up the Nile to, Assouan; crossed the desert to the Red Sea; landed at Masuah, the port of Abyssinia, September 1769; reached Gondar, the capital, February 1770; explored the sources of the Blue Nile; left Gondar, 1771; travelled to Sennaar in Nubia; reached Assouan, November 1772, and England, 1774; published his travels, 1790; died of a fall. [vii. (3.74)

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3 from American Memory: Upper Midwest

1. Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society. Volume 7 page 355
   Fort Crete Coeur 74 (3.20)

2. Memoirs of Jeremiah Curtin page 698
   Early the next morning we were steaming along in sight of Crete. (2.74)

3. Thirty years in the itinerancy page 16
   In 1838 he was sent to Crete Mission on the Kankakee, in the State of Illinois. (2.06)

2 from American Memory: Chesapeake Bay

1. William Wirt, The letters of the British spy. By William wirt page 210
   A man, who sees his object in a strong light, marches directly up to it, in a right line, with the firm step of a soldier; while another, residing in a less illumined zone, wanders and reels in the twilight of the brain, and ere he attain his object, treads a maze as intricate and perplexing as that of the celebrated labyrinth of Crete. (5.37)

2. Rees Lloyd, The Richmond alarm; a plain and familiar discourse in the form of a dialogue between a father and his son; in three parts, page 115
   A glimpse of the gospel light, shone also into Persia, Tartary, China, and India, but it soon left these large countries and took its course westward, crossed the Archipelago or Ægean sea, and visited many islands about there, and it shone into the states of Greece in Europe; Dalmatia, Dacia, Macedonia, Thrace, Achaia, Crete, &c. It entered into Hungary, Bohemia, Italy, Poland, Germany, Venice, Switzerland, France, Spain, Portugal, and to the Isles of Britain and Ireland, to Sardinia, Cilicia, and Corsica. (1.90)

58 from Beazley Archive

1. Beazley Archive Pottery Database entry 21516
   CRETE, KNOSSOS (7.15)

2. Beazley Archive Pottery Database entry 21517
   KNOSSOS, CRETE (7.15)

3. Beazley Archive Pottery Database entry 9194
   CRETE (6.79)

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