Narycus

Narycus or Narykos (Ancient Greek: Νάρυκος),[1], or Naryx (Νάρυχ),[2] or Naryca or Naryka (Νάρυκα),[3] or Narycium,[4] was a town of the Opuntian Locrians, the reputed birthplace of Ajax, son of Oïleus,[1][2] who is hence called by Ovid "Narycius heros".[5] In 395 BCE, Ismenias, a Boeotian commander, undertook an expedition against Phocis, and defeated the Phocians near Naryx of Locris, whence we may conclude that Narycus was near the frontier of Phocis.[6] In 352  Narycus was taken by Phaÿllus, the Phocian commander.[7] As Locri in Bruttium in Italy was, according to some of the ancients, a colony of Narycus,[8] the epithet of Narycian is frequently given to the Bruttian pitch.[9]

Its location is near the modern Regnini.[10][11]

References

  1. 1 2 Strabo. Geographica. ix. p. 425. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  2. 1 2 Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. s.v.
  3. ↑ so in Diodorus.
  4. ↑ Pliny. Naturalis Historia. 4.7.12.
  5. ↑ Ov. Met. 14.468.
  6. ↑ Diodorus Siculus. Bibliotheca historica (Historical Library). 14.82.
  7. ↑ Diodorus Siculus. Bibliotheca historica (Historical Library). 16.38.
  8. ↑ Virgil. Aeneid. 3.399.
  9. ↑ Virgil G. 2.438; Col. 10.386; Pliny. Naturalis Historia. 14.20.25.
  10. ↑ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 55, and directory notes accompanying.
  11. ↑ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Narycus". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.

Coordinates: 38°42′52″N 22°42′38″E / 38.7144°N 22.7105°E / 38.7144; 22.7105

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