Narycus

Narycus or Narykos (Ancient Greek: Νάρυκος),[1], or Naryx (Νάρυξ),[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 BCE Narycus was taken by Phayllus, 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 Rengini.[10][11]

References

1. Strabo. Geographica. ix. p. 425. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
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.