MAINAKE
Málaga, Spain.
A Greek colony
E of Málaga. According to Avienus 425-35, Mainake was
located near Cape Barbetium and the Malacha river. Opposite the city was a marshy island dedicated to Noctiluca,
with a port. According to a text of Ephorus, preserved in
the Pseudo-Skymnos (147-50), it was the most remote
Greek colony in the Occident, a Massaliote city near one
of the islands that made up the Pillars of Hercules.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
A. García y Bellido,
Hispania Graeca
II (1948) 3-19
MPI; id.,
Historia de España. España Protohistórica (1952) 523-26
MPI.
J. M. BLAZQUEZ