Phoenix (Crete)

Phoenix or Phoinix (Greek: Φοίνιξ) was a town in ancient Crete.

Ruins of ancient Phoenix.

Strabo places it on the southern coast of the island, on the isthmus that joins the western third with the rest of Crete.[1] It is also mentioned in the Bible in the Acts of the Apostles regarding the voyage of the ship that took Paul the Apostle to Rome as a prisoner, where it is said that it was a port. It looked northwest and southwest and was considered a good place to spend the winter there. However, a storm did not allow the ship to reach the place.[2]

It also appears in the list of 22 cities of Crete mentioned in the Synecdemus of Hierocles in the 520s.[3]

The site of Phoenix is located near modern Foinikas.[4][5]

References
  1. Strabo. Geographica. 10.4.3. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  2. Acts 27
  3. Hierocles. Synecdemus.
  4. Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 60, and directory notes accompanying.
  5. Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.


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