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== Ancient Greek sources == [[Odysseus]], after returning home and pretending to be a grandson of Minos, tells his wife Penelope about his alleged homeland of Crete: {{verse translation|italicsoff=y| Κρήτη τις γαῖ' ἔστι μέσῳ ἐνὶ οἴνοπι πόντῳ, καλὴ καὶ πίειρα, περίρρυτος· ἐν δ' ἄνθρωποι πολλοί, ἀπειρέσιοι, καὶ ἐννήκοντα πόληες. ἄλλη δ' ἄλλων γλῶσσα μεμιγμένη· ἐν μὲν Ἀχαιοί, ἐν δ' '''Ἐτεόκρητες''' μεγαλήτορες, ἐν δὲ Κύδωνες, Δωριέες τε τριχάϊκες δῖοί τε Πελασγοί. | There is a land called Crete in the midst of the wine-dark sea, a beautiful and fertile land, seagirt; in it are many people, innumerable, and there are ninety cities. Language with language is mingled together. There are [[Achaeans (Homer)|Akhaians]], there are great-hearted '''Eteocretans''', there are [[Kydonia|Kydones]], and [[Dorians]] in their three clans, and noble [[Pelasgians]].<ref>Homer, ''Odyssey'' 19, lines 172–177.</ref> }} In the first century AD the geographer [[Strabo]] noted the following about the settlement of the different 'tribes' of Crete: {{verse translation|italicsoff=y| τούτων φησὶ Στάφυλος τὸ μὲν πρὸς ἔω Δοριεῖς κατέχειν, τὸ δὲ δυσμικόν Κύδωνας, τὸ δὲ νότιον '''Ἐτεόκρητας''' ὧν εἶναι πολίχνιον Πρᾶσον, ὅπου τὸ τοῦ Δικταίου Διὸς ἱερόν· τοὺς μὲν οὖν '''Ἐτεόκρητας''' καὶ Κύδωνας αὐτόχθονας ὑπάρξαι εἰκός, τοὺς δὲ λοιποὺς ἐπήλυδας, […] |Of them [the peoples in the above passage] Staphylos says that the Dorians occupy the region towards the east, the Kydones the western part, the '''Eteocretans''' the southern, whose town is Prasos, where the temple of Diktaian Zeus is; and that the '''Eteocretans''' and Kydones are probably indigenous, but the others incomers, […]<ref>Strabo, ''Geographika'' 10, 475.</ref>}} Indeed, more than half the known Eteocretan texts are from Praisos (Strabo's Πρᾶσος);<ref name="Guarducci">Margarita Guarducci: ''Inscriptiones Creticae,'' vol. 3. Rome 1942, pp. 134–142.</ref> the others were found at [[Dreros]] (modern Driros).
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