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Cranae or
Kranai (Gr****: Κρανάη [kraˈnai]) (also Marathonisi) is an
island off the
coast of
Gytheio (ancient Gythium)
connected to the land by a causeway...
- In Gr**** mythology,
Cranaë (Ancient Gr****: Κρανάη
means 'stony') was an
Athenian princess as
daughter of King
Cranaus and Pedias, the
Lacedaemonian daughter...
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approximately 40
kilometres (25 miles)
north of it. It is the site of
ancient Cranae, a tiny
island where,
according to the myth,
Paris and
Helen spent their...
- and a
patroness of
digestion by Dumézil". In the
Fasti of Ovid, the
nymph Cranaë is
raped by J****, a god
otherwise portra**** by the poet as
avuncular and...
- here
after the
capture of Troy; but
Strabo identifies it with the
Homeric Cranae, to
which Paris fled with Helen, and
supposes that its name was
hence changed...
- from
Cranae in 1803. Antony's
reluctance to deal with his
cousin caused the
Ottomans to
invaded Mani and
besiege Antony in his
island fort of
Cranae. The...
- the
autochthonous King
Cranaus of Athens, who bore him
three daughters:
Cranaë, Cranaechme, and Atthis. Mynes, king of the city of
Lyrnessus which was...
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striges away from the
newborn prince was
subsequently performed by the
nymph Cranae (or
goddess Carna), who
owned a wand of
whitethorn (spina),
given to her...
- the
command of the Capitán
Pasha to lay
siege to Zanet's
island fort on
Cranae.
After a
short siege Zanet fled from the
forts and hid inland. The Ottomans...
- and Pedias, the
Lacedaemonian daughter of Mynes. She was the
sister of
Cranaë and Cranaechme. When
Attis died a virgin, her
father Cranaus named in her...
