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Placido Domingo's appearance "on the package, compellingly photographed in costume as the ancient King of Crete," (Anthony Tommasini, the New York Times ) is the main selling point for this new recording of one of Mozart's more obscure operas--a fact that does not make critics happy.
Nevertheless, the enlightened Athenians acknowledged Crete as a source of much of their culture, and its caves and shrines were major centers of pilgrimage.
It took the Romans three years of brutal fighting to conquer Crete in 67 b.c., and they did so only by playing the rival city-states against one another.
The highest range on Crete, with several of its peaks breaking 2,000 m (5600 ft), there are no villages in its shadow because the mountains rise steeply with no perceptible foothills.
As you head back toward Chaniá stop at the tomb of Elefthérios Venizélos (1834–1936), Crete’s greatest statesman, and that of his son.