Under various forms, worship continued through antiquity, when it was called Mount Casius (Greek: , Kasios; ; , Gassios Ler) and lay north of Posideium (modern Ras al-Bassit). Even closer, the earliest Hellenic foothold in the Levant lies at the beach on its northern flank at Al Mina. Here Euboeans and Cypriotes experienced some of their earliest on-site experience of northwest Semitic cultures, from the early eighth century BCE onwards. The Hittite name persisted in neo-Hittite culture into the ninth century BC and so when Greeks settled on the north side of Mount Hazzi they continued to call its main peak 'Mount Kasios', Lane Fox points out, observing that it was the Mount Olympus of the Near East.