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Aphrodite Apollo Ares Artemis Athena Atlas Coeus Crius Cronus Demeter Dionysus Gaia Hades Hephaestus Hera Hermes Hestia Hyperion Iapetus Mnemosyne Oceanus Phobos Phoebe Poseidon Prometheus Rhea Tethys Themis Uranus Zeus
Bacchus Ceres Diana Juno Jupiter Mars Mercury Minerva Neptune Pluto Venus Vesta Vulcan
Amun Anubis Aten Atum Babi Bastet Bes Geb Hapi hathor heqet Horus Isis Khepri Khnum Khonsu Maat Nephthys Nut Osiris Ptah Ra Seshat Seth Shu Sobek Thoth
Alfheim Baldur Freya Freyr Frigg Heimdallr Helheim Idun Jotunheim Loki Nerthus Njord Odin Thor Tyr
Aengus Arawn Badb Brigid Cailleach Ceridwen Cernunnos Cu Chulainn Dagda Danu Gwydion Herne the Hunter Lugh Medb Morrigan Neit Nuada Taliesin Taranis
Chalchiuhtlicue Coatlicue Huitzilopochtli Mictlantecuhtli Mixcoatl Ometeotl Quetzalcoatl Tezcatlipoca Tlaloc Tonatiuh Xipe Totec Xochiquetzal Xolotl
Amaterasu Ame no Uzume Benzaiten Bishamonten Daikokuten Ebisu Fujin Fukurokuju Inari Izanagi Kagutsuchi Raijin Susanoo Tsukuyomi
Caishen Cangjie Dragon King Eight Immortals Erlang Shen Fuxi Guanyin Hou Yi Huxian Jade Emperor King Yama Leizi Lu-ban Mazu Nezha Nuwa Pangu Shennong Sun Wukong Xiwangmu Yue Lao Zhong Kui
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Brindisium (Brentesion)

The ancient Roman name for Brindisi, a modern coastal city on the Adriatic Sea. Formerly Brentesion in Greek, the city was renamed to Brindisium when the Romans took the city in 266 BCE, during the Pyrrhic war. Brentesion was one of the cities which took the side of Pyrrhus, king of Epeirus.

Though, the Argive hero Diomedes was named as the founder of Argyripa, he was also said to have founded Brindisium or Brentesion too. Apart from this, Brindisium didn't have much mythical importance.

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Brentesion, Βρεντεσιον (Greek).
Brindisium (Latin), Brindisi (modern).

Rulers

Diomedes.

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Apulia:

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Apulia

Apulia

Apulia was a region that resembled the heel of a boot in Italy, now known as the Salentina (Salentine) peninsula, in southeast Italy. Apulia is now called Puglia. It was also called Iapygia, after the Iapyges. A number of Greek cities were founded...

February 4th, 2008 • Jimmy Joe
Argyripa

Argyripa

Argyripa is ancient name for Arpi, a city in Apulia. A city found by the Argive hero, Diomedes , who had fought against the Trojans at Troy. According to the Aeneid , Virgil says that Diomedes migrated to Apulia when his wife Aegialeia took a love...

February 4th, 2008 • Jimmy Joe
Croton

Croton

Croton was a coastal city in Calabria, southern Italy. It was founded by Achaean Greeks around 710 BC. There is no myth regarding Croton, but Philoctetes founded a town in Crimissa, near Croton, after the Trojan War. Philoctetes was the Greek lead...

February 4th, 2008 • Jimmy Joe
Taras (Tarentum)

Taras (Tarentum)

Taras was a city founded by Spartan colonists; it was the only important colony of Sparta outside of Greece during the great migration or colonisation period. The city became a focal point of resistance against Rome's hegemony in Italy; Taras welc...

February 4th, 2008 • Jimmy Joe
Brigindo

Brigindo

Brigindo was the Gallic goddess, also called Brigandu. She was a popular goddess throughout the Celtic world. Brigindo was the goddess of arts, crafts, fertility, and possibly of war. Her name meant "Exalted One" or "High One". Imbolc was a pagan ...

November 3rd, 1999 • Jimmy Joe
Calabria

Calabria

The peninsula in the south of Italy that looks like the foot of a boot. Historically, many of the Greek cities were founded in this region, including Croton and Rhegion. Not much myth in this region. Perhaps the most notable was that Heracles trav...

February 4th, 2008 • Jimmy Joe
Buthrotum

Buthrotum

Buthrotum was a coastal city of northern Epeirus, opposite the island of Corcyra. After the death of Neoptolemus , king of Epeirus, the Trojan seer Helenus , son of Priam and Hecuba, founded Buthrotum.

August 8th, 1999 • Jimmy Joe
Lilybaeum

Lilybaeum

A coastal city in west Sicily. Historically, Lilybaeum (now Massala) was founded by the Carthaginians during the early fourth century BC. Lilybaeum was said to be the cult centre of Aphrodite . According to the Argonautica , Apollonius Rhodius wro...

February 4th, 2008 • Jimmy Joe
Rhegion

Rhegion

Rhegion, or in Latin Rhegium, was an ancient city at the "toe" of Italy in the region called Calabria, but the city is now called Reggio. The Strait of Messina separated this end of Italy from Sicily, and opposite to Rhegion was a city called Mess...

February 4th, 2008 • Jimmy Joe
Ephyra

Ephyra

Ephyra (Ephyre) was the principal city of Thesprotia, a region in southern Epeirus. Neoptolemus became the king of Ephyra after the Trojan War. Neoptolemus probabaly ruled all of Epeirus. (See family tree of the Aeacides )

August 8th, 1999 • Jimmy Joe

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