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Aeaea
The island of Aeaea was the home of the sorceress Circe. Homer never disclosed the location of the island, but later writers put it in the Tyrrheni...
By Jimmy Joe
Corsica
Corsica is a large island west of Italy, and north of the island of Sardinia . The Ligurian Sea on the north and Tyrrhenian Sea on the west encompa...
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Sardinia
Sardinia was a large island west of Italy and south of the island of Corisca . According Apollodorus, Iolaus , nephew of Heracles , aided the Herac...
By Jimmy Joe
Lilybaeum
A coastal city in west Sicily. Historically, Lilybaeum (now Massala) was founded by the Carthaginians during the early fourth century BC. Lilybaeum...
By Jimmy Joe
Eryx
A city in west Sicily, near Lilybaeum (modern Massala). Eryx was founded by Eryx , son of Butes and Aphrodite . Eryx's father (Butes) was a former ...
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Messina
Messina was a Greek city in northeast Sicily. It was originally called Zankle and was founded in 730 BC by colonists from Chalcis. Its name was giv...
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Syracuse
Syracuse was one of the Greek cities in Sicily. The city was found by the Corinthians in 734 BC, located on the east coast, partly on the island of...
By Jimmy Joe
Rhegion
Rhegion, or in Latin Rhegium, was an ancient city at the "toe" of Italy in the region called Calabria, but the city is now called Reggio. The Strai...
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Croton
Croton was a coastal city in Calabria, southern Italy. It was founded by Achaean Greeks around 710 BC. There is no myth regarding Croton, but Philo...
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Calabria
The peninsula in the south of Italy that looks like the foot of a boot. Historically, many of the Greek cities were founded in this region, includi...
By Jimmy Joe
Brindisium (Brentesion)
The ancient Roman name for Brindisi, a modern coastal city on the Adriatic Sea. Formerly Brentesion in Greek, the city was renamed to Brindisium wh...
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Taras (Tarentum)
Taras was a city founded by Spartan colonists; it was the only important colony of Sparta outside of Greece during the great migration or colonisat...