What city was founded by a Greek hero and is located on the Mediterranean Sea?
Cadmus In Greek mythology, Cadmus ; Greek: Κάδμος "Kadmos"), was the founder and first king of Thebes. Cadmus was the first Greek hero and, alongside Perseus and Bellerophon, the greatest hero and slayer of monsters before the days of Heracles. Initially a Phoenician prince, son of king Agenor and queen Telephassa of Tyre and the brother of Phoenix, Cilix and Europa, he was originally sent by his royal parents to seek out and escort his sister Europa back to Tyre after she was abducted from the shores of Phoenicia by Zeus. Cadmus founded the Greek city of Thebes, the acropolis of which was originally named "Cadmeia" in his honour.
Crete Crete (Greek: Κρήτη , "Kríti " ] ; Ancient Greek: Κρήτη , "Krḗtē") is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, 88th-largest island in the world and the fifth-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, and Corsica. Crete and a number of surrounding islands and islets constitute the region of Crete (Greek: Περιφέρεια Κρήτης ), one of the 13 top-level administrative units of Greece. The capital and the largest city is Heraklion. s of 2011 , the region had a population of 623,065.