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Listed 4 sub titles with search on: Mythology  for wider area of: "NAPLES Town CAMPANIA" .


Mythology (4)

Founders

Heracles

NEAPOLIS (Ancient city) CAMPANIA

Historic figures

Siren Parthenope

She had been washed ashore on the site after failing to capture Odysseus

Baeus

VAIE (Ancient city) ITALY

Baeus (Baios), the helmsman of Odysseus, who is said to have died during the stay of the latter in Sicily. Mount Baea in the island of Cephallenia, and several islands and towns, but especially Baiae in Campania, in the bay of which he was believed to have been buried, are supposed to have derived their names from him. (Lycophr. 694, with Tzetz. note; Steph. Byz. s. v. Baia; Eustath. ad Hom.)

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