Phalasarna was mentioned by the ancient historians and geographers Scylax,[REF] Strabo,[REF] Polybius,[REF] Livy,[REF] Pliny,[REF] Dionysius Kalliphontis,[REF] and the anonymous geographer known as Stadiasmus [REF].
The location of the city was then forgotten, and Phalasarna appears in Venetian records only as a lost city.