Historical place profile
Karystos
Karystos was a Greek polis located on the south coast of Euboea. It is included in Homer's "catalogue of ships" in the Iliad, and its name is also thought to be attested in Linear B documents. The ancient acropolis hill, which lies to the north of the modern coastal village, is now occupied by the remains of the Venetian "Castel Rosso".
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:570336
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:570336
- Place type
- fort-2, settlement
- Coordinates
- 38.034800, 24.431394
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Karystos was a Greek polis located on the south coast of Euboea. It is included in Homer's "catalogue of ships" in the Iliad, and its name is also thought to be attested in Linear B documents. The ancient acropolis hill, which lies to the north of the modern coastal village, is now occupied by the remains of the Venetian "Castel Rosso".
Geographic evidence
The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.
Provenance: Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 58 G1 Karystos
Source and reuse
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Research path
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