Phaistos

[ fahy-stuhs ]

noun

an ancient city in S central Crete: site of Minoan palace; Linear A tablets and important pottery objects unearthed here.

Also Phaestus.

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How to use Phaistos in a sentence

V 43 ff., where the Cretan leader Idomeneus is represented as slaying a man named Phaistos (Φαῖστος).
The Heroic Age | H. Munro Chadwick
Now there was in Crete a well-known city called Phaistos (Φαιστός).
The Heroic Age | H. Munro Chadwick

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