When they are to arrive in Italy they are to seek out a prophetess called the Sibyl at Cumae. |
|
Very soon Cumae spread its power over the whole Phlegraean area, including Naples. |
|
Founded about 750 bc by Greeks from Chalcis, Cumae came to control the most fertile portions of the Campanian plain. |
|
Arriving at Cumae, heĀ grasps the golden bough that grows among the woods of Avernus and descends to the Underworld. |
|
Barracco, encountering in Naples Giuseppe Fiorelli, the secretary of Conte Leopoldo and the director of the excavations at Cumae, was able to cultivate his passion for archaeological studies. |
|
From about 700 bc, expansion and accompanying colonization brought the Ionians of Euboea to eastern Sicily and Cumae near Naples, and Samians to Nagidus and Celenderis in Pamphylia. |
|
Marseille enjoyed great prosperity in the fifth century BC, through the period of calm in the western Mediterranean after the defeat at Himera Carthage in 480 BC The Etruscans were defeated in turn by the Syracusans to Cumae. |
|
From here the Greek colonizers reached the coast and around 725 B. C. founded Cumae, which in a short time controlled the bay, which was the bay of Cumae. |
|
When the Etruscans attacked the Greek foundation of Cumae in 524 bce, their advance was finally checked by their defeat at the hands of Aristodemus of that city. |
|
It is generally believed that the Romans adopted the Cumae alphabet, a variant of the Greek alphabet, in the 7th century BC from Cumae, a Greek colony in Southern Italy. |
|