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KORYKOS (Ancient location) CHANIA
Corycus (Korukos, Ptol. iii. 17. § 2: Grabusa), the NW. promontory
of Crete. In Strabo the name appears as Cimarus (Kimaros, x. p. 474). Elsewhere
Strabo (xvii. p. 838) states that Corycus was the point whence the distances to
the several ports of Peloponnesus were measured: as Grabusa ends in two projecting
points, it is probable that the W. point was called Cimaros, the E. Corycus. We
learn from Pliny (iv. 20) that the islands which lie off this promontory were
called Corycae, and that part of the mass of rock which forms this point went
by the name of Mount Coryous. Ptolemy mentions a city of this name, and there
is a passage in which Juvenal (xiv. 267) mentions a Corycian vessel which evidently
belonged to this Cretan town. When the Florentine traveller Buondelmonte visited
the island in A.D. 1415, he found remains existing. (Cornelius, Creta Sacra, vol.
i. p. 87; Pashley, Trav. vol. ii. p. 74; Hoeck, Kreta, vol. i. p. 377.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited August 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
It is located on the cape to the SW of the Balos beach.
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