Lyktos
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: J. Bennet, G. Reger Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: J. Bennet, G. Reger Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Aug 03, 2021 12:32 PM
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History
An ancient settlement on Crete, located just east of modern Xydas/Xidas, with which it is sometimes conflated. The city is mentioned in Homer and seems to have flourished in Hellenistic and Roman times, at least.
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https://pleiades.jazkarta.com/places/589918
35.2081, 25.3682
- Representative Locations:
- ToposText Location (750 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
- Lyktos part of (physical/topographic) Creta (island) (unspecified date range)
- Unnamed aqueduct at Lyktos flows into Lyktos (30 BC - AD 300)
settlement
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 60 D2 Lyktos
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Xidas
J. Bennet, G. Reger, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Lyktos: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.jazkarta.com/places/589918> [accessed: 04 July 2025]
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