Amyclae
Ancient city · Italy
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 41.263, 13.440
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: ancient coastal city, partly legendary, near Fundi in Italy
History
Amyclae or Amyclanus was a Greek city of Magna Graecia on the coast of Latium, between Tarracina and Caieta, which had ceased to exist in the time of Pliny, but had left the name of Sinus Amyclanus to the part of the coast on which it was situated. Its foundation was ascribed to a band of Laconians who had emigrated from the city of the same name near Sparta; and a strange story is told by Pliny and Servius of the inhabitants having been compelled to abandon it by the swarms of serpents with which they were infested.