Heracleium
Ἡράκλειον
Heracleium (Ἡράκλειον Ptol. 3.17.6). a place in Crete, which Strabo (x. pp. 476, 484) calls the port of Cnossus, was situated, according to the anonymous coast-describer (Stadiasm.), at a distance of 20 stadia from that city. The name HERACLEIA (Ἡράκλεια, comp. Plin. Nat. 4.20) is simply mentioned by Stephanus of Byzantium as the 17th of the 23 Heracleias he enumerates. Although the ecclesiastical notices make no mention of this place as a bishop's see, yet there is found among the subscriptions to the proceedings of the General Seventh Council held at Nicaea, along with other Cretan prelates, Theodoros, bishop of Heracleopolis. (Cornel. Creta Sacr. vol. i. p. 254.) Mr. Pashley (Tray. vol. i. p. 263) has fixed the site at a little rocky hill to the W. of Kakóu-óros. There are remains of buildings, probably of no earlier date than the Venetian conquest, but the position agrees with the indications of the ancients.
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.