Camara (Crete)
Lato pros Kamara or simply Kamara or Camara (Ancient Greek: Καμάρα) was an ancient city of Crete, situated to the east of Olous, according to the Maritime Itinerary at a distance of 15 stadia (approximately 2.36 km or 1.47 mi). It is currently the site of Agios Nikolaos, Crete. Lato pros Kamara was settled in the late Bronze Age as the population of Dorian Lato realised greater security. Its expanding population settled the coastal area, which had been subject to greater likelihood of marine attack during the earlier Bronze Age. Xenion, a Cretan historian quoted by Stephanus of Byzantium says that it was once called "Lato", however, modern scholarship distinguishes the two, placing Lato pros Kamara as the port of Lato. Lato pros Kamara outlasted Lato well into Roman times.
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Citations
- ^ Pendlebury, John Devitt Stringfellow (1969), The Archaeology of Crete, Biblo & Tannen, p. 10, ISBN 9780819601216, retrieved 11 February 2014
- ^ The Annual of the British School at Athens, British School at Athens. MacMillan, 1935, p. 94, retrieved 11 February 2014
- ^ Kofou, Anna (1992), Crete: all the museums and archaeological sites (3ª ed.), Ekdotike Athenon, pp. 184, 194, ISBN 9789602130568, retrieved 11 February 2014
- ^ Willetts, R. F. (1965), Ancient Crete: From Early Times Until the Roman Occupation, Routledge (published 2013), pp. 57–58, ISBN 9781134528318, retrieved 11 February 2014
- ^ Ptolemy iii. 17. § 5
- ^ Hogan 2008.
- ^ Hoeck, s. v. Kreta, vol. i. pp. 10, 394, 116
- ^ See, for example: Richard Talbert, Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World, (ISBN 0-691-03169-X), Map 60 & notes.
Works cited
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Camara". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.- Hogan, C. Michael (2008), "Lato", The Modern Antiquarian
Further reading
- Martha W. Baldwin Bowsky, Portrait of a Polis: Lato Pros Kamara (Crete) in the Late Second Century B. C., Hesperia, Vol. 58, No. 3 (July - September 1989), pp. 331–47
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