Listed 38 sub titles with search on: Ancient literary sources for wider area of: "SICILY Island ITALY" .
LILYBAEUM (Ancient city) SICILY
And as they sailed past the Sirens, Orpheus restrained the Argonauts by chanting a counter-melody. Butes alone swam off to the Sirens, but Aphrodite carried him away and settled him in Lilybaeum.
AKRAGAS (Ancient city) SICILY
The Selinuntians who had escaped capture (of the Carthaginians), twenty-six hundred in number, made their way in safety to Acragas and there received all possible kindness; for the Acragantini, after portioning out food to them at public expense, divided them for billeting among their homes, urging the private citizens, who were indeed eager enough, to supply them with every necessity of life.
For at that time the citizens of Acragas numbered more than twenty thousand, and when resident aliens were included, not less than two hundred thousand.
MESSINA (Ancient city) SICILY
For he returned by the king's permission to Sicily and from Sicily back again to Darius, until in old age he ended his life in Persia in great wealth. Without trouble the Samians planted themselves in that most excellent city of Zancle, after they had escaped from the Medes.
OMFAKI (Ancient city) SICILY
Many years later, when Dorians were migrating to Sicily, Antiphemus the founder of Gela, after the sack of Omphace, a town of the Sicanians, removed to Gela an image made by Daedalus.
AEOLIA (Island complex) ITALY
The island of Aeolus, Odysseus in Aeolia.
AETNA (Mountain) SICILY
Eruption of Aetna
CATANI (Ancient city) SICILY
City of Sicily, suffers from eruption of Mt. Etna, Pious Folk at.
EGESTA (Ancient city) SICILY
A town in Sicily, allied with Phoenicians against Greeks.
ERYX (Ancient city) SICILY
In western Sicily, land of E. belongs to descendants of Herakles.
GELA (Ancient city) SICILY
City in Sicily, in Sicily, a Rhodian colony, founded by Antiphemus, images made by Daedalus at G., people of G. dedicate treasury at Olympia, Hippocrates its despot, usurpation of Gelon.
IRAKLIA MINOA (Ancient city) SICILY
Proposed foundation of in Sicily.
KAMARINA (Ancient city) SICILY
Ιn Sicily, its citizens transferred to Syracuse by Gelon.
KASMENAI (Ancient city) SICILY
A town in Sicily (Hdt. 7.155).
LEONTINI (Ancient city) SICILY
A town in Sicily, laid waste by Syracusans, but afterwards restored, men of L. dedicate image of Zeus at Olympia.
LILYBAEUM (Ancient city) SICILY
MAKTORION (Ancient city) SICILY
A town near Gela in Sicily.
NAXOS (Ancient city) SICILY
Colony of Chalcis, Naxians of Sicily, annexed Hippocrates of Gela.
SELINOUS (Ancient city) SICILY
A town in Sicily, its occupation by one of Dorieus' followers, destroyed by Carthaginians, people of S. dedicate treasury at Olympia.
SIKELIA (Ancient Hellenic lands) ITALY
Races inhabiting, Messenians of, Greeks settle in, Daedalus goes to, fame of Daedalus spread all over, war between Sicily and Crete, Eryx reigns in, Herakles in, Odysseus in, thrown on giant Enceladus, Camicus in, Arion's design to visit it, expedition of Dorieus, son of Anaxandrides, to, Dorieus in Sicily, retirement thither of Dionysius of Phocae, Samian exiles there, Gelo, tyrant of, growth of Gelon's power, Carthaginian attack on Sicily defeated by Gelon, Phormio crosses from Maenalus to, Athenians warned by omens not to sail for, Athenians sail to conquer, Athenians defeated in, Carthaginians destroy Selinus in, Dionysius, tyrant of, Pyrrhus fights Carthaginians in, Romans go to war with Carthaginians for possession of.
SYRACUSSES (Ancient city) SICILY
Founded by Archias, a Corinthian, quarries at, sanctuary of Olympian Zeus at, tyrants of, its despots comparable for splendour to Polycrates, its seizure by Gelon, and growth under his rule, Greek envoys there, Aeschylus and Simonides at, expedition of Athenians against, Amilcas of Carthage partly a Syracusan, besieged by Carthaginians but relieved by Pyrrhus.
YVLA (Ancient city) SICILY
City of Sicily.
AEOLIA (Island complex) ITALY
The islands are seven in number, but the largest is Lipara (a colony of the Cnidians), which, Thermessa excepted, lies nearest to Sicily.
AKRAGAS (Ancient city) SICILY
Near Acragas are lakes which, though they have the taste of seawater, are different in nature; for even people who cannot swim do not sink, but float on the surface like wood.
EGESTA (Ancient city) SICILY
Aegestaea was founded, it is said, by those who crossed over with Philoctetes to the territory of Croton, as I have stated in my account of Italy; they were sent to Sicily by him along with Aegestes the Trojan.
ERYX (Ancient city) SICILY
Apollodorus, in his work On Ships, in mentioning Philoctetes, says that, according to some, when Philoctetes arrived at the territory of Croton, he colonized the promontory Crimissa, and, in the interior above it, the city Chone, from which the Chonians of that district took their name, and that some of his companions whom he had sent forth with Aegestes the Trojan to the region of Eryx in Sicily fortified Aegesta
MORGANTINA (Ancient city) SICILY
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EGESTA (Ancient city) SICILY
On the fall of Ilium, some of the Trojans escaped from the Achaeans, came in ships to Sicily, and settled next to the Sicanians under the general name of Elymi; their towns being called Eryx and Egesta.
ERYX (Ancient city) SICILY
On the fall of Ilium, some of the Trojans escaped from the Achaeans, came in ships to Sicily, and settled next to the Sicanians under the general name of Elymi; their towns being called Eryx and Egesta.
SIKELIA (Ancient Hellenic lands) ITALY
It was settled originally as follows, and the peoples that occupied it are these. The earliest inhabitants spoken of in any part of the country are the Cyclopes and Laestrygones; but I cannot tell of what race they were, or whence they came or whither they went, and must leave my readers to what the poets have said of them and to what may be generally known concerning them. The Sicanians appear to have been the next settlers, although they pretend to have been the first of all and aborigines; but the facts show that they were Iberians, driven by the Ligurians from the river Sicanus in Iberia. It was from them that the island, before called Trinacaria, took its name of Sicania, and to the present day they inhabit the west of Sicily.
On the fall of Ilium, some of the Trojans escaped from the Achaeans, came in ships to Sicily, and settled next to the Sicanians under the general name of Elymi; their towns being called Eryx and Egesta. With them settled some of the Phocians carried on their way from Troy by a storm, first to Libya, and afterwards from thence to Sicily.
The Sicels crossed over to Sicily from their first home Italy, flying from the Opicans, as tradition says and as seems not unlikely, upon rafts, having watched till the wind set down the strait to effect the passage; although perhaps they may have sailed over in some other way. Even at the present day there are still Sicels in Italy; and the country got its name of Italy from Italus, a king of the Sicels, so called. These went with a great host to Sicily, defeated the Sicanians in battle and forced them to remove to the south and west of the island, which thus came to be called Sicily instead of Sicania, and after they crossed over continued to enjoy the richest parts of the country for near three hundred years before any Hellenes came to Sicily; indeed they still hold the centre and north of the island.
There were also Phoenicians living all round Sicily, who had occupied promontories upon the sea coasts and the islets adjacent for the purpose of trading with the Sicels. But when the Hellenes began to arrive in considerable numbers by sea, the Phoenicians abandoned most of their stations, and drawing together took up their abode in Motye, Soloeis, and Panormus, near the Elymi, partly because they confided in their alliance, and also because these are the nearest points, for the voyage between Carthage and Sicily.
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