BOUKEPHALOS
Corinthia, Greece.
Named
both by Pliny (
HN 4.5) and the geographer Ptolemy
(3.16.12) as the next port S of Kenchreai on the Saronic
coast of the Corinthia. Herodianus (
Pros. 2) has an entry
for Boukephalos as a harbor of Argolis and the name
of the horse given to Alexander the Great by the Corinthian Demaratus. The Corinthian port is probably the
broad, deep-water harbor now called Frankolimano at
the SE edge of the Bay of Kenchreai opposite the island
known in antiquity as Aspis.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
H. N. Fowler & R. Stillwell,
Corinth
I, i: Introduction. Topography. Architecture (1932) 20-23; J. R. Wiseman,
The Land of the Ancient Corinthians (forthcoming).
J. R. WISEMAN