Amnisus
Ἀμνισός
Amnisus (Ἀμνισός, a town in the N. of Crete, and the harbour of Cnossus in the time of Minos, was situated at the mouth of a river of the same name (the modern Aposelemi). It possessed a sanctuary of Eileithyia, and the nymphs of the river, called Ἀμνισιάβες and Ἀμνισίδες, were sacred to this goddess. (Hom. Od. 19.188; Strab. p. 476; Apollon. 3.877; Callim. Hymn. in Dian. 15; Steph. B. sub voce
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.