Lycastus (Crete)
Lycastus or Lykastos (Greek: Λύκαστος) was a town of ancient Crete, mentioned in the Catalogue of Ships in Homer's Iliad.[1] Strabo says that it had entirely disappeared, having been conquered and destroyed by the Knossians.[2] According to Polybius the Lycastian district was afterwards wrested from Knossos by the Gortynians, who gave it to the neighbouring town of Rhaucus.[3]
Its site is located near modern Rokka.[4][5]
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