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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 Philoctetes founded a town in Crimissa, near Croton, after the Trojan War. Philoctetes was the Greek leader of the contingents from Methone and Meliboea. Philoctetes was the owner of the bow of Heracles, and he used it to kill Paris. Philoctetes, at first, landed in Campania and fought a war against the Lucanians, before founding the town in Crimissa.

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Croton, Κρότων;
Crotone (Italian).

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Philoctetes?

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Calabria

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, including Croton and Rhegion. Not much myth in this region. Perhaps the most notable was that Heracles trav...

February 4th, 2008 • Jimmy Joe
Taras (Tarentum)

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 colonisation period. The city became a focal point of resistance against Rome's hegemony in Italy; Taras welc...

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Argyripa

Argyripa

Argyripa is ancient name for Arpi, a city in Apulia. A city found by the Argive hero, Diomedes , who had fought against the Trojans at Troy. According to the Aeneid , Virgil says that Diomedes migrated to Apulia when his wife Aegialeia took a love...

February 4th, 2008 • Jimmy Joe
Cumae

Cumae

Cumae was a major ancient port city in Campania, some 20 km west of Naples. The city was founded and colonised by the Greeks from Chalcís, a city on the island of Euboea, in the mid-8th century BC; perhaps the earliest to be colonised by the Greek...

February 4th, 2008 • Jimmy Joe
Cos

Cos

Cos was one of the Dodecanese islands, west of the Carian city of Cnidus, Asia Minor. The people of Cos (Coans) were originally called the Merops after their king, Meropes. Heracles' ships were driven by a storm from Hera to the island of Cos. The...

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Philoctetes

Philoctetes

A Malian archer. Philoctetes (Φιλοκτήτης) was the son of Poeas, king of Malis, and Demonassa. He may have sailed with Jason as an Argonaut. Either Philoctetes or his father set alight Heracles' pyre. Heracles rewarded him by giving his bow and arr...

April 24th, 1999 • Jimmy Joe
Calydon

Calydon

Calydon was a southern city of Aetolia founded by Calydon, son of Aetolus and brother of Pleuron. Not much was known about Calydon except that he married Aeolia, daughter of Amythaon and sister of Melampus and Bias. Calydon became the father of Ep...

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Buthrotum

Buthrotum

Buthrotum was a coastal city of northern Epeirus, opposite the island of Corcyra. After the death of Neoptolemus , king of Epeirus, the Trojan seer Helenus , son of Priam and Hecuba, founded Buthrotum.

August 8th, 1999 • Jimmy Joe
Brindisium (Brentesion)

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 when the Romans took the city in 266 BCE, during the Pyrrhic war. Brentesion was one of the cities whi...

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Corinth

Corinth

The city of Corinth was situated on the coast of Corinthian Gulf, at the western side of the isthmus. Corinth was originally called Ephyra, and the region around Corinth was called Ephyraea. The citadel in Corinth was called Acrocorinth . The city...

August 8th, 1999 • Jimmy Joe

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