Lyktos
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.
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.
Lyktos
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Xidas
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 60 D2 Lyktos
MANTO 9719437: Lyctos (Crete)
Kotsonas 2019
iDAI.gazetteer 2362038: Lyktos
TM Geo ID 1272: Lyktos
iDAI.gazetteer 2125750: Lyttos
PECS (Perseus) LYTTOS (Xydas) Pedhiadha, Crete
Wikipedia (English) Lyctus
BAtlas 60 D2 Lyktos
Rethemiotakis 1984
Chronique en ligne Toponyme 14663: Lyttos, Xidas
DARMC 4651
New Pauly Lyctus, Lyttus
Wikidata Q1001533: Lyctus
ToposText Lyktos/Lyttos (Irakleio)
Lyctus
Λύκτος
Λύττος
The Hellenistic period in Greek history and the middle-to-late Republican period in Roman history. For the purposes of Pleiades, this period is said to begin in the year 330 and end in the year 30 before the birth of Christ. [[-330, -30]]
Hellenistic Greek, Roman Republic (330 BC-30 BC)
The Roman period (i.e., the early Roman Empire) in Greek and Roman history. For the purposes of Pleiades, this period is said to begin in the year 30 before the birth of Christ and to end in the year 300 after the birth of Christ. [[-30, 300]]
Roman, early Empire (30 BC-AD 300)
The Archaic period in Greek and Roman history. For the purposes of Pleiades, this period is seen to begin in the year 750 and end in the year 550 before the birth of Christ. [[-750, -550]]
Archaic (Greco-Roman; 750-550 BCE/BC)
Representative point location of visible remains of ancient Lyktos as asserted by ToposText (verified in Google Earth). Dates after BAtlas.
640
ToposText Location
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-750
Pleiades
The Late Antique period in Greek and Roman history. For the purposes of Pleiades, this period is said to begin in the year 300 and to end in the year 640 after the birth of Christ. [[300, 640]]
Late Antique (AD 300-AD 640)
The Classical period in Greek and Roman history. For the purposes of Pleiades, this period is said to begin in the year 550 and end in the year 330 before the birth of Christ. [[-550, -330]]
Classical (Greco-Roman; 550 BC-330 BC)
ToposText Lyktos/Lyttos (Crete) 54 Xidas - Λύττος
640
Lyttos
Lyttos
Lýttos
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-750
New Pauly Lyctus, Lyttus
Λύττος
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 60 D2 Lyktos
300
Lyctus
Lyctus
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-30
Lyctus
Pleiades
Plin., NH (Mayhoff: PHI) 4.58.1
Equivalent to "inhabited place" as defined by the Getty Art and Architecture Thesaurus: General term for places or areas occupied, modified, or planned to be inhabited by communities of human populations and that contain enough societal functions to be relatively self-sufficient. They are characterized by inhabitants living in neighboring sets of living quarters and by the place having a proper name or a locally recognized status.
settlement
640
Lyktos
Lyktos
Lýktos
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-750
New Pauly Lyctus, Lyttus
Λύκτος
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 60 D2 Lyktos