Lycastus
Λύκαστος
Lycastus (Λύκαστος: Eth. Λυκάστιος), a town of Crete, mentioned in the Homeric catalogue (Il. 2.647; comp. Pomp. Mela, 2.7.13; Plin. Nat. 4.12). Strabo (x. p.479) says that it had entirely disappeared, having been conquered and destroyed by the Cnossians. According to Polybius (23.15) the Lycastian district was afterwards wrested from Cnossus by the Gortynians, who gave it to the neighbouring town of Rhaucus. In Mr. Pashley's map the site is fixed at Kaenúria. (Höck, Kreta, vol. i. pp. 15, 414.)
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.