The History of Crete in the Roman Period

Crete becomes a place that exports wine in the Roman periods so its economy is based very much on kind of like wine exports and it becomes it's economically central part of the eastern Mediterranean. Crete sits on this nexus but doesn't have like a ton of natural resources itself apart from wine and all of some and the kind of standard agricultural fare  that means that it becomes super super central in that sense. The coinage of kenasas has labyrinth on it you know they're identifying with that myth of the thesis and the minotaur we're told in various roman sources that as a tourist you can pitch up on Crete and there's at least three different places that are