Naxos

Naxos or Naxus (Ancient Greek: Νάχος)^[1] was an ancient town of Crete, according to the Scholiast (ad Pind. Isth. vi. 107) celebrated for its whetstones. Some classicists have doubted the existence of this city. The islands Crete and Naxos were famed for their whetstones (Plin. xxxvi. 22; xviii. 28), hence the confusion. Modern scholarship and archaeology seem to confirm its existence. Naxos was located near the ancient city of Olous, atop a mountain now called Oxa where ruins can still be found.^[2]

References

1. ^ Suda, under Νάχος.
2. ^ local website

• This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography by William Smith (1857).
• tourist website of the area

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