Lycastus (Crete)

Lycastus or Lykastos (Greek: Λύκαστος) was a town of ancient Crete, mentioned in the Catalogue of Ships in Homer's Iliad.^[1] Strabo says that it had entirely disappeared, having been conquered and destroyed by the Knossians.^[2] According to Polybius the Lycastian district was afterwards wrested from Knossos by the Gortynians, who gave it to the neighbouring town of Rhaucus.^[3]

Its site is located near modern Rokka.^[4][5]