Listed 2 sub titles with search on: Information about the place for destination: "LYKASTOS Ancient city TEMENOS".
Lycastus. Lukastos: Eth. Lukastios. A town of Crete, mentioned in the Homeric catalogue. Strabo says that it had entirely disappeared, having been conquered and destroyed by the Cnossians. According to Polybius (xxiii. 15) the Lycastian district was afterwards wrested from Cnossus by the Gortynians, who gave it to the neighbouring town of Rhaucus. In Mr. Pashley's map the site is fixed at Kaenuria.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited June 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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