Naucratis
place · 3 works · 3 mentions · 6 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.
Naucratis was in the past the only trading port in Egypt.
It is to these that the precinct belongs, and these are the cities that furnish overseers of the 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;
Phaedrus
A city in Egypt identified as the setting where the ancient god Theuth was worshipped, according to the story Socrates relates.
I heard, then, that at Naucratis, in Egypt, was one of the ancient gods of that country, the one whose sacred bird is called the ibis, and the name of the god himself was Theuth.