to Sicily around 1260 BC. Ancient authors from the 1st c. BC state that Oenotria was named after Oenotrus, the youngest of the fifty sons of Lycaon who...

Valentia in southern Italy. Nevertheless, by his time the larger concept of Oenotria and "Italy" had become synonymous, and the name also applied to most of...

History section on this page, the Greeks referred to this region of Italy as Oenotria. The district of Lucania was so called from the people bearing the name...

was extended to the whole peninsula. Catch from the Oenotrians, formerly Oenotria: now, as it is famous, having taken the name of Italus, Italy is called...

though also specimens with violet or lilac tints may occur. Arhopala aedias oenotria (Hewitson, 1869) (Mindanao) The male is above dull lilac without a black...

Oenotria, "land of wine"). According to ancient Greek tradition, Οἴνωτρος (Oenotrus), the youngest of the sons of Lycaon, was the eponym of Oenotria....

33 ✓ ✓ ✓ succeeded to Lycaon's power Oenotrus ✓ ✓ the youngest, founded Oenotria in Italy Orchomenus 34 ✓ ✓ ✓ founded Orchomenus and Methydrium Orestheus...

found a colony, long before the Trojan War. He was the likely eponym of Oenotria (Οἰνωτρία), giving his name to the Italian peninsula, especially the Southern...

grapevines. The Greeks called the southern part of the Italian Peninsula Oenotria ("land of vines"). Settlements in Massalia in southern France and along...

Around the middle of the 5th century BC, the Lucani moved south into Oenotria, driving the indigenous tribes, known to the Greeks as Oenotrians, Chones...