Herculis Arenae
ἁι τοῦ Ἡρακλέους Θῖνες
Herculis Arenae (ἁι τοῦ Ἡρακλέους Θῖνες a range of sand-hills in the NW. of Cyrenaica, behind Hesperides, containing the source of the river Lathon. (Ptol. 4.4. § § 8, 10.) They form the N. part of the Jebel Barkah, its S. part being the VELPI M. of Ptolemy.
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.