Rhocca
Ῥόκκα
Rhocca (Ῥόκκα), a town of Crete, where there was a temple to Artemis Rhoccaea (Aelian, Ael. NA 12.22). Pococke (vol. ii. p. 247) found remains at the village which still bears the name of Rhokka, to the S. of the ancient Methymna; and there can be little doubt but that this is the site of Rhocca, which, as is shown by Aelian (Ael. NA 14.20), was near Methymna (Höck, Kreta, vol. i. p. 391; Pashley, Crete, vol. ii. p. 41.)
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.