Milatus or Milatos (Ancient Greek: Μίλατος), also known as Miletus or Miletos (Μίλητος), was a town on the north coast of ancient Crete. It is mentioned by Homer in the Catalogue of Ships of the Iliad.[1] This town, which no longer existed in the time of Strabo, was looked upon by some writers as the mother-city of the Ionian colony Miletus.[2][3]

The site of Milatus is tentatively located near a modern village also named Milatos.[4][5]

References

  1. ↑ Homer. Iliad. Vol. 2.647.
  2. ↑ Ephorus, ap. Strabo. Geographica. Vol. xii. p.573, xiv. p. 634. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  3. ↑ Schol. Apoll. Rhod. 1.186; Apollod. 3.1, 3.2, 3.3; Pliny. Naturalis Historia. Vol. 4.12.
  4. ↑ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 60, and directory notes accompanying.
  5. ↑ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

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