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The following is a list of people from the island of
Crete in southern Greece.
Ancient
Mythology
See also
Category:Cretan mythology and
History of Crete
Acacallis daughter of Minos.
Aerope granddaughter of Minos.
Androgeus son of Minos.
Ariadne daughter of Minos.
Asterion first king of Crete.
Bianna immigrant to ancient Gaul.
Catreus son of Minos.
Deucalion son of Minos, father of Idomeneus.
Dictys Cretensis legendary companion of Idomeneus, and the alleged author of a diary.
Glaucus (son of Minos)
Idomeneus son of Deucalion. He led the Cretan armies to the Trojan War in the side of Achaeans.
Minos son of Asterion, king of Crete and judge in the Greek underworld.
Rhadamanthus son of Asterion, king of Crete and judge in the Greek underworld.
Zeus father of the gods of Olympus, god of the sky, thunder and lightning.
Dorian
Archaic era
Classical era (ca.500-335 BC)
Ergoteles (5th century BC) Olympic runner of Knossos, migrant to Himera, Sicily.
Kresilas (5th century BC) sculptor, famous for his "Pericles statue".
Brotachus of Gortyna, mercenary mentioned in an epigram of
Simonides .
Sotades (early 4th century BC) Olympic runner. In his second Olympic victory, he ran for Ephesus.
In the army of Alexander the Great
Eurybotas and Ombrion, generals of archers
Nearchus admiral, geographer and explorer.
Sibyrtius general and satrap of Arachosia and Gedrosia.
Hellenistic period (323 BC- 69 BC)
Rhianus (3rd century BC), poet and scholar.
Lagoras (3rd century BC) mercenary in the service of Ptolemy IV Philopator.
Roman period (69 BC-330)
Byzantine period (330-824, 961-1204)
Venetian period (1204-1669)
Clerics
Artists
Writers
Scholars
John Rhosos (15th century) scribe, calligraphist and translator.
Marcus Musurus (1470–1517) professor of Greek at the University of Padua, scholiast and epigrammatist.
Nicholas Kalliakis (1645–1707) classical professor in universities of Italy.
Ottoman period (1669-1898)
Christian
Muslim
See also
Cretan Turks
Modern
References
^ I︠A︡roslav Dmytrovych Isai︠e︡vych (2006). Voluntary brotherhood: confraternities of laymen in early modern Ukraine . Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press. p. 47.
ISBN
1-894865-03-0 . …the Greek merchants Constantine Korniakt and Manolis Arphanes Marinetos are added. This second redaction appeared no earlier than 1589, as wealthy Greeks began to join the confraternity at a later date, once it had expanded its activities. Korniakt was actually the wealthiest man in Lviv: he traded in Eastern, Western, and local goods, collected customs duty on behalf of the king, and owned a number of villages.