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Cumae is believed to have been founded in the 8th century B. C by
colonists from the Euboean towns of Chalcis and Eretria who bad
already settled on the neighbouring island of Pithekoussai (Ischia).
Very soon Cumae spread its power over the whole Phlegrean area,
including Naples. Its history, from 421 B. C, when the city fell
into the hands of the Campanians, mixes with that of Dicaearchia.
Towards the end of the Republic, when Puteoli became the chief port
of Rome , Cumae fell into a rapid decline and was remembered only as
a quiet, almost deserted town and as a place of worship, owing to
the presence of the oracular Grotto of the Sibyl. The remains of
Cumae make you feel the mystical ,magical, almost superstitious way
of the Greeks for their quest into expansion of Greater Greece. |
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