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VRICINIE (Ancient fortress) SICILY
Bricinniae (Brikinniai), a small town of Sicily, mentioned by Thucydides,
who calls it a fortress or stronghold (eruma) in the territory of Leontini. It
was occupied in B.C. 422 by a body of exiles from Leontini, who held it against
the Syracusans. (Thuc. v. 4.) But no subsequent mention of the name occurs, except
in Stephanus of Byzantium, who probably took it from Thucydides. It was evidently
but a small place, and its site cannot now be determined with precision.
A fortified hilltop above the modern town of Scordia, controlling the junction of the plain of Leontinoi and the valley of Katane. The site was first occupied by a village of the Castelluccio culture (ca. 1800-1400 B.C.); oval huts have been excavated. Later Sikel occupation is indicated by rock-cut tombs. In the early 5th c. the hilltop was fortified by Greeks, probably from Leontinoi across the plain; stretches of the wall and a handsome stone cistern survive. A necropolis of the 4th-3d c. B.C. occupied the E slope; one tomb contained a bronze cuirass, weapons, and a Sikeliote amphora of ca. 340 B.C. The site (also called Monte Casale and Monte San Basilio) has been plausibly identified with the Brikinniai held by Leontinoi in 424 B.C. (Thuc. 5.4).
M. Bell, ed.
This text is from: The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites,
Princeton University Press 1976. Cited Nov 2002 from
Perseus Project URL below, which contains bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
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