Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Il. 2.534-535 includes: 'forty black ships of the Locrians who dwell across the straits from holy Euboea.'All translations are my own unless otherwise stated.Deucalion and Pyrrha were the mythic founders of the Greek race, primarily through Deucalion's son Hellen.Opus (or its port Cynus), in Locris, is held to be one of the first places where this pair landed in mainland Greece, and this was believed to be the site of Pyrrha's grave.See Str.9.4.2. 2 Dionysius II, the Greek ruler of the mighty local power, Syracuse, sided with Locri against Rhegium in c. 356 BC, razing the city to the ground, and incorporating Locri into the Syracusan sphere of influence.This pro-Syracusan sympathy lasted only a few years before Locri reverted to a more open constitutional leadership.For more on Dionysius II and his relationship with Locri, see Evans 2022.
Source: Mnemosyne
Author: Edward J. Creedy
Institution: Durham University
Language: English
Topic: Classical Antiquity Studies
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4404552255