From The Greek Reporter:
The easiest and simplest identification of the Minoans in the Odyssey comes from one of the passages that mention Crete. After all, this was the main territory of the Minoans. In one passage in the Odyssey, Homer describes the inhabitants of that island. He wrote:
“There is a certain land, Crete, in the middle of the wine-dark sea, a fine and rich land, sea-girt, in which are many men, countless men, and ninety cities, and one language is mixed with another. There are Achaeans in it, great-hearted Eteocretans in it, Cydonians in it, streaming-haired Dorians, and divine Pelasgians.”
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