Naucratis

American  

[naw-kruh-tis] / ˈnɔ krə tɪs /

noun

1. an ancient Greek city in N Egypt, on the Nile delta.

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Naucratis British  

/ ˈnɔːkrətɪs /

noun

1. an ancient Greek city in N Egypt, in the Nile delta: founded in the 7th century _bc

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The work itself has vanished, but 62 fragments remain, quoted in a Roman text by Athenaeus of Naucratis.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 12, 2011

Athenaeus of Naucratis, writing in the late second or early third century ce, preserved a contemporary description of the coronation festivities for Ptolemy II Philadelphus in 285.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro

The historians speak of Doricha, an hetaira mentioned by Sappho, the famous poetess, as the mistress of her brother Charaxus, who was a wine-merchant at Lésbos and travelled constantly to Naucratis.

From The Tour A Story of Ancient Egypt by Couperus, Louis

ATHENAEUS, of Naucratis in Egypt, Greek rhetorician and grammarian, flourished about the end of the 2nd and the beginning of the 3rd century A.D.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various

The earliest examples are those of the temple of Apollo at Naucratis in Egypt, and of the archaic temple of Diana at Ephesus, both about 560 B.C.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" by Various