Gramvousa Peninsula

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Gramvousa Peninsula (Greek: Χερσόνησος Γραμβούσας, romanized: Chersonesos Gramvousas) is a peninsula at the northwestern end of the island of Crete, Greece. Anciently it was known as Corycus or Korykos (Ancient Greek: Κώρυκος),[1][2][3] or as Cimarus or Kimaros (Κίμαρος);[4] although the latter is ascribed to the cape at the northern extremity of the peninsula ().[2][3] Strabo states that Corycus was the point whence the distances to the several ports of Peloponnesus were measured.[5] We learn from Pliny that the islands which lie off this promontory were called Corycae (modern Gramvousa), and that part of the mass of rock which forms this point went by the name of .[6] Ptolemy mentions a city also called Corycus,[6] and there is a passage in which Juvenal mentions a Corycian vessel which evidently belonged to this Cretan town.[7] When the Florentine traveller Cristoforo Buondelmonti visited the island in 1415, he found remains existing.[8]

References[]

  1. ^ Ptolemy. The Geography. 3.17.2.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 60, and directory notes accompanying.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
  4. ^ Strabo. Geographica. x. p. 474. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  5. ^ Strabo. Geographica. xvii. p. 838. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b Ptolemy. The Geography. 4.20.
  7. ^ Juvenal, 14.267
  8. ^ Cornelius, Creta Sacra, vol. i. p. 87; Robert Pashley, Trav. vol. ii. p. 74; Hoeck, Kreta, vol. i. p. 377.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Corycus". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.

Coordinates: 35°34′15″N 23°35′37″E / 35.570853°N 23.593626��E / 35.570853; 23.593626

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