Town in ancient Crete
Caudus or Kaudos (
Ancient Greek : Καῦδος ) was the principal town of
Gavdos off
ancient Crete .
[1] The execution of
Sotades by
Patroclus , according to some interpretations, took place at or near the town.
[2]
[3]
Suda writes that it was famous for the big
onagers .
[4]
Its site is tentatively located near modern Ag. Ioannis.
[5]
[6]
References
^ Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Crete".
An inventory of archaic and classical poleis . New York:
Oxford University Press . p.
1146 .
ISBN
0-19-814099-1 .
^ Hauben, Hans (2013).
"Callicrates of Samos and Patroclus of Macedon, champions of Ptolemaic thalassocracy" . In Buraselis, Kostas; Stefanou, Mary; Thompson, Dorothy J. (eds.). The Ptolemies, the Sea and the Nile: Studies in Waterborne Power . Cambridge University Press. pp. 39–65.
ISBN
9781107033351 .
^ Launey, Marcel (1945). "Études d'histoire hellénistique, II: L'exécution de Sotades et l'expédition de Patroklos dans la mer Égée (266 av. J.-C.)". Revue des études anciennes (in French). 47 : 33–45.
^
Suda, kappa, 1130
^
Richard Talbert , ed. (2000).
Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World . Princeton University Press. p. 60, and directory notes accompanying.
ISBN
978-0-691-03169-9 .
^
Lund University .
Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire .
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