Canae

According to the first-century Greek geographer Strabo, Canae was founded by Locrians coming from Cynus in eastern Greece. Canae was built on the island of Argennusa (also spelt Arginusa), beside a small promontory hill variously called Mount Cane (), Aega (Αἰγᾶ), or Argennon (Ἄργεννον). The name Canae (Κάναι) means "(city) of Mount Cane"; the district that included Argennusa and the neighboring two islands of Garip and Kalem was called Canaea. During the Peloponnesian War, an Athenian fleet commanded by eight strategoi unexpectedly defeated a Spartan fleet under Callicratidas off the coast of Canae in 406 B.C. in the Battle of Arginusae. By the time of Pliny the Elder in the first century A.D., the city was deserted. == See also ==

• Herodotus, The Histories • Livy, The Foundation of the City • Pliny the Elder, The Natural History • Pomponius Mela, De situ orbis • Ptolemy, Geography • Sappho, quoted in Strabo (below) • Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica • Strabo, Geography • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War == External links ==