And at last they came to Crete, and to Cnossus, beneath the peaks of Ida, and to the palace of Minos the great king, to whom Zeus himself taught laws.    From Wordnik.com.  [Types of Children's Literature] Reference

Cnossus and Pithom and the Temple of Athena in the Acropolis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greener Than You Think] Reference

Cnossus, and a private letter of spiritual advice to a lady named.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy] Reference

Lactantius, we find, and some others, say, that it was in the city Cnossus.    From Wordnik.com.  [A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.)] Reference

You are sailing to Rome (you tell me) to obtain the post of Governor of Cnossus.    From Wordnik.com.  [XCIII] Reference

Furthermore he wrought a green, like that which Daedalus once made in Cnossus for lovely Ariadne.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Iliad] Reference

The story of human progress in the West is the story of Memphis, Thebes, Babylon, Nineveh, Cnossus, Athens.    From Wordnik.com.  [Horace and His Influence]

It is, however, only an ancient quarry out of which Gortyna was built; the labyrinth was situated near Cnossus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference

There is a great town there, Cnossus, where Minos reigned who every nine years had a conference with Jove himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Odyssey] Reference

He was a native of Cnossus in Crete, who was regarded as a seer, and his reputation for second-sight is testified by.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Books of the New Testament] Reference

The city stood on a little peninsula of the north-east coast, between Cnossus and Olous, and was the seaport of Lyttos.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference

Addison Trent, the great epigraphist, who was to discourse to them on the inscriptions of Cnossus, the buried town of Crete.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Achilles] Reference

The famous spearsman Idomeneus led the Cretans, who held Cnossus, and the well-walled city of Gortys; Lyctus also, Miletus and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Iliad] Reference

Cnossus, and the well-walled city of Gortys; Lyctus also, Miletus and Lycastus that lies upon the chalk; the populous towns of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Iliad of Homer] Reference

Indeed their most important city, Cnossus, on the northern coast of Crete, had been entirely modern in its insistence upon hygiene and comfort.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Mankind] Reference

Roman occupation it was continually at war with the two neighbouring and rival cities of Cnossus and Cydonia, contending with them for supremacy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference

‘In that order of importance,’ said her husband, glancing amusedly at Miss Topas and her American professor, who were disagreeing about Cnossus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laurels are Poison]

Minos, king of Cnossus in Crete, whose great palace has been unearthed in recent years, is said to have held office for periods of eight years together.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Bough : a study of magic and religion] Reference

Thus Minos, king of Cnossus in Crete, whose great palace has been unearthed in recent years, is said to have held office for periods of eight years together.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion] Reference

Excavations in the valley of the Tigris and Euphrates have yielded an almost equally valuable harvest in regard to Babylonian and Assyrian civilisation, and Cnossus has told us its scarcely less wonderful story.    From Wordnik.com.  [India, Old and New] Reference

Finally in the fifteenth century before our era he plundered and ravaged Cnossus and ten centuries after their first appearance upon the scene the Hellenes were the undisputed rulers of Greece, of the Ægean and of the coastal regions of Asia Minor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Mankind] Reference

Pashley quotes a Latin author to show that Cydonia was one of the most ancient, if not the most ancient, of Cretan cities, -- "Cnossus and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867] Reference

Cnossus and a Cretan month bearing the same name.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica] Reference

"Strangers, who dwelt aforetime round wooded Cnossus, never again shall ye return each to his pleasant city and his own house, and his wife, but here shall ye hold my rich temple, honoured by multitudes of men.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological] Reference

Cnossus, her capital of high command.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Odyssey] Reference

Of Cnossus, of Gortyna wall'd around.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper] Reference

Like that which Daedalus in Cnossus erst.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Iliad] Reference

Cnossus; the city in which Minos reign'd.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Odyssey of Homer] Reference

From Cnossus to the cave of Jove ascends.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poetical Works of Akenside] Reference

From Cnossus, and Gortyna's well-wall'd town.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Iliad] Reference

Appears beneath famed Cnossus and her towers, 440.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poetical Works of Akenside] Reference

Cnossus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Sayings of Epictetus] Reference

Cnossus, a city of Crete, IV, 434.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Argonautica] Reference

The Fall of Cnossus ... ... ... ... ... .. .56 27.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Mankind] Reference

The story of human progress in the West is the story of Memphis, Thebes, Babylon, Nineveh, Cnossus, Athens, Alexandria.    From Wordnik.com.  [Horace and His Influence] Reference