Cres

A son of Zeus by a nymph of Mount Ida, from whom the island of Crete was believed to have derived its name.

According to Diodorus,1 Cres was an Eteocretan, that is, a Cretan autochthon.

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References

Notes

  1. v, 64

Sources

  • Pausanias. Description of Greece viii, 53.3.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.
  • Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Κρήτη.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.