Crete (mythology)

In Greek mythology, the name Crete may refer to several figures, all of whom are associated with the homonymous island of Crete, and may have been considered its eponyms:

• Daughter of Asterion, who married Minos.^[1]

• Possible mother of Pasiphae by Helios.^[2]

• Daughter of Deucalion (son of Minos), sister of Idomeneus and half-sister of Molus.^[3]

• Daughter of one of the Cretan Curetes, who married Ammon. She was actually said to have given her name to the island of Crete, which had been previously called Idaea.^[4]

References

1. ^ Asclepiades in Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, 3. 1. 2.
2. ^ Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, 4. 60. 4
3. ^ Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, 3. 3. 1
4. ^ Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, 3. 71. 2