Rhaucus
Ancient city · Greece
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 35.229, 25.030
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: town of ancient Crete
History
Rhaucus or Rhaukos was a town of ancient Crete. From the story told about the Cretan bees by Antenor in his Cretica it seems that there were two cities of this name in Crete. The existence of two places so called in the island might give rise to some such legend as that which he mentions.