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Eleuterna

Elétherna, Ελέθερνα

Eleuterna, today's Eleftherna on the north-western slopes of Mount Ida in Crete, has a name that probably means the free city; legend made one of the Curetes, Eleuther, its founder. Its acropolis sat on a narrow ridge between two streams, open only to the east, with walls, a tower and two great cisterns cut into the rock. A temple, perhaps of Apollo, the city's patron, stood on the eastern slope, and in its cemetery a gold leaf with Orphic inscriptions was found. Its silver coins go back to 480 BC.

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