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Roussolakkos is the site of a Minoan city, located near Palekastro, Crete.[1] The Bronze Age town was occupied from Early Minoan IIA to Late Minoan IIIB, and its remains are relatively well preserved. A later Greek temple to Diktaian Zeus was built at the nearby Elaea promontory.[citation needed]
In Greek mythology, the site was regarded as the birthplace of Diktaian Zeus.[citation needed] and the location where Jason and the Argonauts confronted Talos, the man of bronze, a generation before the Trojan War.[citation needed]
- ^ Eleanor Emlen Myers; J. Wilson Myers; Gerald Cadogan (1992). The Aerial Atlas of Ancient Crete. University of California Press. pp. 222–. ISBN 978-0-520-07382-1.