Geraestus
Γεραιστός
Geraestus (Γεραιστός: Eth. Γεραίστιος), a promontory of Euboea, forming the south-west extremity of the island, now called Cape Mandíli. There was a town on this cape, with a celebrated temple of Poseidon, and at its foot there was a well-frequented port, which seems to have been small, though Livy, as Leake observes, calls it nobilis Euboeae portus.
(Hom. Od. 3.177; Hdt. 8.7. 9.105; Thuc. 3.3; Xen. Hell. 3.4. 4, 5.4.61; Strab. x. p.446; Steph. B. sub voce Liv. 31.45, Plin. Nat. 4.12. s. 21; Mela, 2.7; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. ii. p. 423.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.