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The island where the story begins, before Olympus.
It is where Rhea hid Zeus from Cronus, and where Europa landed, carried across the sea by the bull.
The palace of Minos, the Labyrinth, the Minotaur, Daedalus — all of these stories belong to this island.
A civilization older than mainland Greece really existed here, and the excavation of the palace at Knossos in the early twentieth century confirmed the myths' setting.
SourcesApollodorus, Library