CAPO D'ORLANDO
(“Agathyrnon”) Sicily.
Archaeological evidence of a habitation center of the
Classical period near Capo d'Orlando between S. Martino and Bagnoli has led to speculation that it may be
Agathyrnon. Diodoros (5.8) attributes its foundation to
Agathyrnos, son of Aiolos, and in 210 B.C. the consul
Laevinus transferred to Bruttium 4000 dissidents who had
gathered at Agathyrnon (
Livy 26.40; Polyb. 9.27). It is
unlikely that it should be identified, as has also been suggested, with S. Agata Militello in the territory that was
probably “chora” of Halontion.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
G. Parisi, “La via Valeria,”
BIA 11
(1948) 121.
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