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Cretea was the name of a place on the top of mountain Lycaeus of Arcadia,on the left of grove of Apollo surnamed Parrhasian.The Arcadians called the mountain Olympus and 'holy mountain'.The mountain is lying between Alfeios river and the coast of Kyparissia.The Arcadians claimed that the Crete where the Cretan story has it that Zeus was reared was this place and not the island.[1]Rhea went to Cretea in order to escape from her husband Cronus who ate their children and she gave birth to Zeus there.

  1. ^ Pausanias:Description of Greece.8.38.2 www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?
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