Naucratis
place · 2 works · 2 mentions · 5 anchored passages
in the texts
Against Timocrates
Place associated with the captured ship whose cargo was valued at nine talents and thirty minas.
Thereupon Euctemon laid an information that Archebius and Lysitheides, who had served as naval captains, held property captured in a ship of Naucratis to the value of nine talents and thirty minas.
The Histories
Greek trading city in Egypt, granted to Greek settlers by Amasis, site of the jointly founded Hellenion and other Greek religious precincts, and formerly Egypt's sole legal trading port.
Amasis became a philhellene, and besides other services which he did for some of the Greeks, he gave those who came to Egypt the city of Naucratis to live in;
Of these the greatest and most famous and most visited precinct is that which is called the Hellenion, founded jointly by the Ionian cities of Chios, Teos, Phocaea, and Clazomenae, the Dorian cities of Rhodes, Cnidus, Halicarnassus, and Phaselis, and one Aeolian city,
The courtesans of Naucratis seem to be peculiarly alluring, for the woman of whom this story is told became so famous that every Greek knew the name of Rhodopis, and later on a certain Archidice was the theme of song throughout Greece, although less celebrated than the other.