Corycus or Korykos ( grc, Κώρυκος) was a town in the northwestern part of ancient Crete on the peninsula of the same name mentioned by

Ptolemy Claudius Ptolemy (; grc-gre, Πτολεμαῖος, ; la, Claudius Ptolemaeus; AD) was a mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and music theorist, who wrote about a dozen scientific treatises, three of which were of importanc ...

. There is a passage in which

Juvenal Decimus Junius Juvenalis (), known in English as Juvenal ( ), was a Roman poet active in the late first and early second century CE. He is the author of the collection of satirical poems known as the ''Satires''. The details of Juvenal's life ...

mentions a Corycian vessel which evidently belonged to this Cretan town. When the Florentine traveller

Cristoforo Buondelmonti Cristoforo Buondelmonti (c. 1385 – c. 1430) was an Italian Franciscan priest and traveler, and a pioneer in promoting first-hand knowledge of Greece and its antiquities throughout the Western world. Biography Cristoforo Buondelmonti was born ar ...

visited Crete in 1415, he found remains existing.Cornelius, ''Creta Sacra'', vol. i. p. 87; Robert Pashley, ''Trav.'' vol. ii. p. 74; Hoeck, ''Kreta'', vol. i. p. 377.

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