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Visit Dikteon Andron, the cave were Zeus, the king of the Gods, was born. This cave is on the beautiful Lassithi Plateau. The Lassithi Plateau is a big fertile plateau, famous for its windmills, its agricultural products – like potatoes and beans – and its dairy products – especially cheese. Jun 14, 2019  The Cave of Zeus Crete (also known as Psychro Cave or Dikteon Cave) is the most visited on the island because of the myth that says it is the birthplace of Zeus. But it is not easiest cave to access. So below is guide to help you plan your visit to the.

1. Diktean Cave. The Diktean Cave, which is also written as the Diktaean Cave, and whose more correct name is the Psychro Cave, is in eastern Crete.It’s just outside the village of Psychro, which is about a half-hour drive (27kms/17 miles) due south of Malia.It is about 45kms/28 miles west of Agios Nikolaos, and takes about 90 minutes on winding mountain roads.
2. The cave is located in the prefecture of Lasithi. The Dictaean cave is famous in Greek mythology as the place where Amalthea, nurtured the infant Zeus with her goat's milk. The archaeology attests to the site's long use as a place of cult worship.
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Psychro Cave (Greek: Σπήλαιο Ψυχρού) is an ancient Minoansacred cave in Lasithi plateau in the Lasithi district of eastern Crete. Psychro is associated with the Diktaean Cave (Greek: Δικταῖον ἌντρονDiktaion Antron), one of the putative sites of the birth of Zeus. Other legends place it as the Idaean Cave on Mount Ida. According to Hesiod, Theogony (477-484), Rhea gave birth to Zeus in Lyctus and hid him in a cave of Mount Aegaeon. Since the late nineteenth century the Diktaean Cave, which is above the modern village of Psychro, has been identified with this sanctuary.

Geography[edit]

Psychro (35.1625747, 25.4452670) is 1,025 metres above sea level.^[1] The cave is located in the prefecture of Lasithi.

Myth[edit]

The Dictaean cave is famous in Greek mythology as the place where Amalthea, nurtured the infant Zeus with her goat's milk. The archaeology attests to the site's long use as a place of cult worship. The nurse of Zeus, who was charged by Rhea to raise the infant Zeus in secret here, to protect him from his father Cronus (Krónos) is also called the nymphAdrasteia in some contexts.^[2] It is one of a number of caves believed to have been the birthplace or hiding place of Zeus.^[3] The mountains, of which the cave are part, are known in Crete as Dikte.

Archaeology[edit]

The cave was first excavated in 1886 by Joseph Hatzidakis, President of the Syllogos at Candia, and F. Halbherr.^[4] In 1896, Sir Arthur Evans investigated the site.^[5]

In 1899, J. Demargne and David George Hogarth of the British School at Athens conducted further investigations; Hogarth's brief report published in 1900^[6] gives a picture of the destruction wrought by primitive archaeological methods: immense fallen blocks from the upper cave roof were blasted before removal; the rich black earth had been previously ransacked. The stuccoed altar in the upper cave was discovered in 1900, surrounded by strata of ashes, pottery and 'other refuse', among which were votive objects in bronze, terracotta, iron and bone, with fragments of some thirty libation tables and countless conical ceramic cups for food offerings. Bones among the ash layer attest to sacrifice of bulls, sheep and goats, deer and a boar.^[7]

The undisturbed lowest strata of the upper cave represented the transition between Late Minoan Kamares ware to earliest Mycenaean levels; finds represented the Geometric Style of the ninth century BCE, but few later than that. More recent excavation has revealed the use of the cave reached back to Early Minoan times, and votive objects attest to the cave's being the most frequented shrine by Middle Minoan times (MM IIIA).^[8]

The lower grotto falls steeply with traces of a rock-cut stair to a pool, out of which stalactites rise. 'Much earth had been thrown down by diggers of the Upper Grotto,' Hogarth reported, 'and this was found full of small bronze objects.' In the vertical chinks of the lowest stalactites, Hogarth's team found 'toy double-axes, knife-blades, needles, and other objects in bronze, placed there by dedicators, as in niches. The mud at the edge of the subterranean pool was also rich in similar things and in statuettes of two types, male and female and engraved gems.'

In 1961, the art historian and archaeologist John Boardman published the finds uncovered by these and other excavations.^[1]

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While clay human figurines are normally found in peak sanctuaries, Psychro and the sanctuary on Mount Ida stand out as the only sacred caves that have yielded human figurines. Psychro is also a unique sacred cave for a bronze leg, also known as a votive body part, which is the only votive body part to be found in a sacred cave. More common sacred cave finds at Psychro include stone and ceramic lamps.

Psychro yielded an uncommon number of semi-precious stones, including carnelian, steatite, amethyst, jasper and hematite.

Psychro's artefacts are now on display at the Heraklion Museum, the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, the Louvre and the British Museum.^[9]

Notes[edit]

1. ^ ^abHill, Bryan. 'Dikteon Cave: The Legendary Birthplace of Zeus'. www.ancient-origins.net. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
2. ^Bibliotheke, 1.1.6.
3. ^William Smith, ed. (c. 1873). A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. John Murray.
4. ^F. Halbherr and P. Orsi, 'Scoperte nell' Antro di Psychro', Museo dell' Antichità Classico2 1888 pp. 905-10.
5. ^Evans, 'Further discoveries of Cretan and Aegean scripts,' JHS17 (1897), pp 305-57.
6. ^D. G. Hogarth, 'The Cave of Psychro in Crete' The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland30 (1900), pp. 90-91.
7. ^W. Boyd-Dawkins, 'Remains of Animals Found in the Dictaean Cave in 1901,' Man32 (1902) Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, pp. 162-65.
8. ^L. Vance Watrous and H. Blitzer, 'Lasithi: A History of Settlement on a Highland Plain in Crete' Hesperia Supplements18 (1982), pp. i-xiv,1-122.
9. ^British Museum Collection

References[edit]

• Jones, Donald W. 1999 Peak Sanctuaries and Sacred Caves in Minoan CreteISBN91-7081-153-9
• Rutkowski, B. and Krzysztof Nowicki, 1996. The Psychro Cave and Other Sacred Grottoes in Crete (Warsaw: polish Academy of Science).
• Watrous, L. Vance 1996. The Cave Sanctuary of Zeus at Psychro: A Study of Extra-Urban Sanctuaries in Minoan and Early Iron Age Crete (Liège/Austin:Université de Liège/University of Texas at Austin)

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