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Strabo, Geography, Book 6, chapter 1 (search)
colony of the Locri who live on the Crisaean Gulf,Now the Gulf of Salona in the Gulf of Corinth. which was led out by Evanthes only a little while after the founding of Croton and Syracuse.Croton and Syracuse were founded, respectively, in 710 and 734 B.C. According to Diod. Sic. 4.24, Heracles had unintentionally killed Croton and had foretold the founding of a famous city on the site, the same to be named after Croton. Ephorus is wrong in calling it a colony of the Locri Opuntii. However, came back and founded Croton, having as an associate Archias, the founder of Syracuse, who happened to sail up while on his way to found Syracuse.The generally accepted dates for the founding of Croton and Syracuse are, respectively, 710 B.C. and 734 B.C. But Strabo's account here seems to mean that Syracuse was founded immediately after Croton (cp. 6. 2. 4). Cp. also Thucydides 6. 3. 2 The Iapyges used to live at Croton in earlier times, as Ephorus says. And the city is reputed to have cu
Strabo, Geography, Book 6, chapter 2 (search)
tends from Lilybaeum to Pelorias necessarily slants towards the east, and faces towards the region that is between the west and the north,That is, a line at right angles to the side point towards the north-west. having Italy on the north and on the west the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Islands of Aeolus. The cities along the side that forms the Strait are, first, Messene, and then Tauromenium, Catana, and Syracuse; but those that were between Catana and Syracuse have disappeared—NaxusFounded about 734 B.C. and destroyed by Dionysius in 403 B.C. (see Diod. Sic. 14.14), but it is placed by the commentators and maps between Tauromenium and Catana. and Megara;Founded about the same time as Naxus and destroyed about 214 B.C. and on this coast are the outlets of the Symaethus and all rivers that flow down from Aetna and have good harbors at their mouths; and here too is the promontory of Xiphonia. According to Ephorus these were the earliest Greek cities to be founded in Sicily, that is, in t
Strabo, Geography (ed. H.C. Hamilton, Esq., W. Falconer, M.A.), BOOK VI., CHAPTER II. (search)
t space near Lilybæum. The Æolian islands lie to the north. The cities situated on the side which forms the Strait are, first Messana, then Tauromenium,Taormina. Catana, and Syracuse; between Catana and Syracuse were the ruined cities NaxosNaxos was not situated between Catana and Syracuse, but was most probably built on the left bank of the Fiume Freddo, the ancient Asines, near Taormina. It is possible that Strabo originally wrote, between Messina and Syracuse. Naxos was founded about 734 B. C., and destroyed by Dionysius the elder about the year 403. Naxos is thought by some to be the modern Schisso. and Megara,Megara was founded on the right of the Cantaro, the ancient Alabus. It was destroyed about 214 years B. C. situated where the rivers descending from Ætna fall into the sea, and afford good accommodation for shipping. Here is also the promontory of Xiphonia. They say that Ephorus founded these first cities of the Greeks in Sicily in the tenth generation fr
W. Walter Merry, James Riddell, D. B. Monro, Commentary on the Odyssey (1886), Book 5 (e）, line 123 (search)
legend about Orion serves to confirm the identity of Ortygia and Delos. The name Ortygia occurs in several localities, but it is always connected with the worship of Artemis (cp. Soph. Trachin. 214); and the existence of a Syracusan Ortygia (which Völcker understands to be alluded to in this passage) seems only to mean that the Syracusan colonists (B. C. 734） introduced into their new home the cult of the Delian Artemis. In Od.15. 403 the island *suri/h is described as being *)ortugi/hs kaqu/perqen, which would sufficiently mark the position of the Cyclad Syros, west of Rhenaea, and this is confirmed by the statement in v. 410, that the island was under the joint protection of Artemis and Apollo. There is a further doubt whe
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), A'rchias (search)
A'rchias （*)Arxi/as), of Corinth, the founder of Syracuse, B. C. 734. He was a Heracleid, either of the Bacchiad or the Temenid line, and of high account at Corinth. In consequence of the death of Actaeon [ACTAEON, No. 2] he resolved to leave his country. He consulted the Delphic Oracle, which directed him, says Pausanias, who gives the three hexameters, " to an Ortygia in Trinacria, where Arethusa and Alpheius reappeared." According to an account given in Strabo, Steph. Byz., and at greater leir colonies were connected. Archias sailed in company, we are also told by Strabo, with Chersicrates, his countryman, and left him at Corcyra : as also Myscellus at Croton, in the foundling of which he assisted. Thence he proceeded to his destination. (Thuc. 6.3; Plut. Amat. Narr. p. 772; Diod. Exc. ii. p. 288; Paus. 5.7.2; Strabo, vi. pp. 262, 269; Steph. Byz. s. v. Syraens.; Schol. ad Arist. Eq. 1089. See also Clinton, F. H. B. C. 734, and vol. ii. pp. 264, 265; Muller's Dor. 1.6.7.) [A.H.