Sea of Crete Sea of Crete The Sea of Crete (, "Kritiko Pelagos") or Cretan Sea, is a sea, part of the Aegean Sea, located in its Southern extremity. The sea stretches to the North of the island of Crete, East of the islands of Kythera and Antikythera, South of the Cyclades, and West of the Dodecanese islands of Rhodes, Karpathos and Kassos. The bounding sea to the West is the Ionian Sea. To the Northwest is the Myrtoan Sea, a subdivision of the Mediterranean Sea that lies between the Cyclades and Peloponnese. To the East-SE is the rest of the Mediterranean Sea,
Periplus of the Erythraean Sea never went this far south. This account of a kingdom tracing its beginnings to Alexander's campaigns and the Hellenistic Seleucid empire that followed: The "Periplus" further claims to the circulation of Indo-Greek coinage in the region: The Greek city of Alexandria Bucephalous on the Jhelum River is mentioned in the "Periplus", as well as in the Roman Peutinger Table: Periplus of the Erythraean Sea The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea or Periplus of the Red Sea (, ) is a Greco-Roman periplus written in Koine Greek that describes navigation and trading opportunities from Roman Egyptian ports like Berenice Troglodytica along