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===Strabo=== [[Strabo]],<ref>Strabo. ''[[Geographica]]''. Book 10, Section 6.</ref> who depends on the books available to him, goes on to elaborate: {{Blockquote|Of these peoples, according to [[Staphylus of Naucratis|Staphylus]], the Dorians occupy the part toward the east, the Cydonians the western part, the Eteo-Cretans the southern; and to these last belongs the town [[Praisos]], where is the temple of the Dictaean Zeus; whereas the other peoples, since they were more powerful, dwelt in the plains. Now it is reasonable to suppose that the Eteo-Cretans and the Cydonians were autochthonous, and that the others were foreigners ...<ref>The Jones translation in the [[Loeb Classical Library|Loeb]], which has Greek and English on opposing pages.</ref>}} Beside this sole reference to Dorians in Crete, the mention of the ''[[Iliad]]'' of the [[Heracleidae|Heraclid]] [[Tlepolemus]], a warrior on the side of [[Achaeans (Homer)|Achaeans]] and colonist of three important Dorian cities in [[Rhodes]] has been also regarded as a later interpolation.<ref>{{cite book|author=Richard Claverhous Jebb|title=Homer: An Introduction to the Iliad and the Odyssey|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oW7Zd5LdUo4C&pg=PA43|date=August 2008|publisher=BiblioBazaar|isbn=978-0-554-75061-3|page=43}}</ref>
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