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LYKTOS (Ancient city) KASTELI
(...)Then they gathered at the Malean promontory in Laconia and there found Cnossian
envoys who had sailed in from Crete to enlist mercenaries. After these envoys
had conversed with Phalaecus and the commanders and had offered rather high pay,
they all sailed off with them. Having made port at Cnossus in Crete, they immediately
took by storm the city called Lyctus. But to the Lyctians, who had been expelled
from their native land, there appeared a miraculous and sudden reinforcement.
For at about the same time the people of Tarentum were engaged in prosecuting
a war against the Lucanians and had sent to the Lacedaemonians, who were the stock
of their ancestors, envoys soliciting help, whereupon the Spartans, who were willing
to join them because of their relationship, quickly assembled an army and navy
and as general in command of it appointed King Archidamus. But as they were about
to set sail for Italy, a request came from the Lyctians to help them first. Consenting
to this, the Lacedaemonians sailed to Crete, defeated the mercenaries and restored
to the Lyctians their native land.
This extract is from: Diodorus Siculus, Library (ed. C. H. Oldfather, 1989). Cited Nov 2003 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.
Furthermore, it (Cnossus) continued for a long time to win the first honors; then it was humbled and deprived of many of its prerogatives, and its superior rank passed over to Gortyna and Lyctus; but later it again recovered its olden dignity as the metropolis. Cnossus is situated in a plain, its original circuit being thirty stadia, between the Lyctian and Gortynian territories, being two hundred stadia distant from Gortyna, and a hundred and twenty from Lyttus, which the poet named Lyctus (Strab. 10,4,7).
Of Lyctus, which I have mentioned before, the seaport is Cherronesus, as it is called, where is the temple of Britomartis. But the Cities Miletus and Lycastus, which are catalogued along with Lyctus, no longer exist; and as for their territory, the Lyctians took one portion of it and the Cnossians the other, after they had razed the city to the ground (Strab. 10,4,14).
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