Olous
Sign in to saveOlous or Olus (, or ) was a city of ancient Crete; now sunken, it was situated at the site of present day town of Elounda, Crete, Greece. According to the Stadiasmus Maris Magni, it had a harbour and was located 260 stadia (in the range of approximately ) from Chersonasus and 15 stadia (approximately ) from Camara.
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It is catalogued under topics including Ancient Greek archaeological sites in Crete, Cretan city-states and Former populated places in Greece.
Its subject is documented across 14 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Instance of
- polis
- Country
- Greece
- Located in
- Agios Nikolaos Municipality
- Location
- Elounda
- Image
- Elounda - panoramio - Mietek Ł (9).jpg
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- Commons category
- Olous (Elounda)
- native label
- Ολούς
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Olous or Olus (, or ) was a city of ancient Crete; now sunken, it was situated at the site of present day town of Elounda, Crete, Greece. According to the Stadiasmus Maris Magni, it had a harbour and was located 260 stadia (in the range of approximately ) from Chersonasus and 15 stadia (approximately ) from Camara.
==History== After continuing boundary disputes with the hillfort of Lato, the citizens of Olous eventually entered into a treaty with those of Lato. There was a temple to Britomartis in the city, a wooden statue of whom was erected by Daedalus, the mythical ancestor of the Daedalidae, and father of Cretan art. Her effigy is represented on the coins of Olous.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Olous” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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