Heracleium

Heracleium or Herakleion (Ancient Greek: Ἡράκλειον),^[1] also known as Heracleia or Herakleia (Ἡράκλεια),^[2] was a town in ancient Crete, which Strabo calls the port of Knossos,^[3] and was situated, according to the anonymous coast-describer (Stadiasmus), at a distance of 20 stadia from that city.^[4] Stephanus of Byzantium simply mentions the town 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 Second Council of Nicaea, along with other Cretan prelates, Theodoros, bishop of Heracleopolis.^[5]

The site of Heracleium is located near modern Heraklion.^[6]^[7]

References

^ Ptolemy. The Geography. Vol. 3.17.6.
^ Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v.
^ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. x. pp. 476, 484. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
^ Stadiasmus Maris Magni §§ 348-349.
^ Cornel. Creta Sacr. vol. i. p. 254.
^ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 60, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Heracleium". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.