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KORTON (Ancient city) TOSCANA
Koruthos. An Italian hero, son of Iupiter, husband of Electra, and father of Dardanus, is said to have founded Corythus, afterwards called Cortona.
(Koruthos). An Italian hero, son of Iupiter, husband of Electra, and father of Dardanus, is said to have founded Corythus, afterwards called Cortona
Corythus : Perseus Project
MANTOUE (Ancient city) LOMBARDIA
A son of the river-god Tiber, and of Manto, daughter of Tiresias. Servius makes him the founder of Mantua, and identical with Ocnus.
Bianor, an ancient hero of the town of Mantua, was a son of Tiberis and Manto,
and was also called Ocnus or Aucnus. He is said to have built the town of Mantua,
and to have called it after his mother. According to others, Ocnus was a son or
brother of Auletes, the founder of Perusia, and emigrated to Gaul, where he built
Cesena. (Serv. ad Virg. Ecl. ix. 60, Aen. x. 198.)
PATAVION (Ancient city) PADOVA
Receives Menelaus and Odysseus hospitably, father of Iphidamas, Archelochus, Acamas and Glaucus.
LIGYRIA (Ancient country) ITALY
Albion or Alebion, a son of Poseidon and brother of Dercynus or Bergion, together
with whom he attacked Heracles, when he passed through their country (Liguria)
with the oxen of Geryon. But they paid for their presumption with their lives
(Apollod. ii. 5.10; Pomp. Mela, ii. 5.39). The Scholiast on Lycophron (648) calls
the brother of Alebion, Ligys. The story is also alluded to in Hyginus (Poet.
Astr. ii. 6) and Dionysius (i. 41).
LIGYRIA (Ancient country) ITALY
Cycnus, a son of Sthenelus, king of the Ligurians, and a friend and relation of Phaeton. He was the father of Cinyras and Cupauo. While he was lamenting the fate of Phaeton on the banks of the Eridanus, he was metamorphosed by Apollo into a swan, and placed among the stars. (Ov. Meet. ii. 366, &c.; Paus. i. 30.3; Serv. ad Aen. x. 189)
CASTEGGIO (Town) LOMBARDIA
Honor or Honos, the personification of honour at Rome. After the battle of Clastidium in Cisalpine
Gaul, Marcellus vowed a temple, which was to belong to Honor and Virtus in common
but as the pontiffs refused to consecrate one temple to two divinities, two temples,
one of Honor and the other of Virtus, were built close together (Liv. xxvii. 25;
Val. Max. i. 1.8). C. Marius also built a temple to Honor, after his victory over
the Cimbri and Teutones (Vitruv. vii. Praef. ; Serv. ad Aen. i. 12); and, in addition
to these, we may mention an altar of Honor, which was situated outside the Colline
gate, and was more ancient than either of the other temples. (Cic. de Leg. ii.
23.) Persons sacrificing to him were obliged to have their heads uncovered (Plut.
Quaest. Rom. 13). Honor is represented, especially on medals and coins, as a male
figure in armour, and standing on a globe, or with the cornucopia in his left
and a spear in his right hand. It should be observed that St. Augustin (de Civ.
Dei, iv. 21) calls the god Honorinus.
PISA (Ancient city) TOSCANA
Son of Panopeus, razes walls of Troy, makes image of Hermes, victor in boxing, an architect, constructs the Wooden Horse.
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