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Ancient literary sources (10)

Apollodorus

Butes settled at Lilybaeum

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.

Perseus Encyclopedia

Segesta

EGESTA (Ancient city) SICILY
A town in Sicily, allied with Phoenicians against Greeks.

Eryx

ERYX (Ancient city) SICILY
In western Sicily, land of E. belongs to descendants of Herakles.

Lilybaeum

LILYBAEUM (Ancient city) SICILY

Selinus

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.

Strabo

Aegestaea

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

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

Thucydides

Trojans settled Egesta

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.

Trojans settled Eryx

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.

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