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 | | Althaemenes, wishing to foil an oracle which had foretold that he would kill his father, Catreus, left Crete and settled on Rhodes, where he founded a settlement to which he gave the name of Cretenia, a reference to his homeland. |
 | | After many years, Catreus arrived on the island in search of his only son, but Althaemenes did not recognise his father at a distance, and, thinking that he was a pirate killed him, thus fulfilling the oracle. |
 | | Another hero of myth, Tlepolemos, is associated with the settling of the Dorians on RW des. |
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