Lasaia
Lasaia ( ancient Greek Λασαία , also Lasea ) was an ancient port city on the south coast of the Greek island of Crete . It was located near Chrysostom between the present-day places Kali Limenes and Platia Peramata , south of the 467-meter-high mountain Liondaria and 6.6 kilometers west of Lendas .
Lasaia was once one of the ports of Gortyn . Part of the city was the small island of Traphos (today Trafos ), which served as a place of refuge in the 19th century during the uprising of the Greeks against the Turks . Coins show that the city was also called Thalassa or Alasa . The ruins, including an aqueduct , can still be seen on site, but have not yet been fully excavated.
The place Lasaia is also mentioned in the Bible , it appears in the Acts of the Apostles of Luke ( Acts 27.8 EU ). On his journey to Rome, Paul of Tarsus arrived there as a prisoner in an Alexandrian ship, because there was a strong headwind and shipping was still considered unsafe. Ultimately, however, the seafarers decided to continue in the direction of Phoinix (a port whose location has not yet been reliably explored). But they did not arrive there because of the violent north-east storm.
In the Acts of the Apostles, where Lasaia is mentioned, it says in the Greek original and the German translation :
"Ἐν ἱκαναῖς δὲ ἡμέραις βραδυπλοοῦντες καὶ μόλις γενόμενοι κατὰ τὴν Κνίδον, μὴ προσεῶντος ἡμᾶς τοῦ ἀνέμου ὑπεπλεύσαμεν τὴν Κρήτην κατὰ Σαλμώνην, μόλις τε παραλεγόμενοι αὐτὴν ἤλθομεν εἰς τόπον τινὰ καλούμενον Καλοὺς λιμένας ᾧ ἐγγὺς πόλις ἦν Λασαία."
As described in the Bible text, Paul and the rest of the ship's crew drove on from there, as the harbor was unsuitable for wintering ( Acts 27.12 EU ).
literature
- Keith Branigan: Lasaia (Chrysostomos) Kainourgiou, Crete . In: Richard Stillwell et al. a. (Ed.): The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1976, ISBN 0-691-03542-3 .
Web links
- The ancient cities of Crete (English)
Coordinates: 34 ° 56 ′ 23.5 ″ N , 24 ° 49 ′ 17.5 ″ E