- The
Elymians (Latin: Elymī) were an
ancient tribal people who
inhabited the
western part of
Sicily during the
Bronze Age and
classical antiquity. According...
-
Elymian is the
extinct language of the
ancient Elymian people of
western Sicily. Its
characteristics are
little known because of the
extremely limited...
- time of
Phoenician and Gr**** colonization. The
Sicani dwelt east of the
Elymians and west of the Sicels, having,
according to
Diodorus Siculus, the boundary...
-
Drepana (Ancient Gr****: Δρέπανα) was an
Elymian, Carthaginian, and
Roman port in
antiquity on the
western coast of Sicily. It was the site of a crushing...
- of the
major cities of the
Elymians, one of the
three indigenous peoples of Sicily. The
other major cities of the
Elymians were Eryx and Entella. It is...
- non-Indo-European or pre-Indo-European
heritage include the Etruscans, the
Elymians and
Sicani of Sicily, and the
prehistoric Sardinians, who gave
birth to...
-
Founded by
Elymians, the city is
still an
important fishing port and the main
gateway to the
nearby Egadi Islands.
Drepana was
founded by the
Elymians to serve...
- sack of Motya,
Segesta again came
under siege by Gr**** forces, but the
Elymian forces based in
Segesta managed to
inflict damage on the Gr**** camp in...
- the
classification of
their language remains uncertain. Conversely, the
Elymian language is
generally accepted to have been an Indo-European language,...
-
either the son of
Poseidon or of
Aphrodite and
Butes the
Argonaut of the
Elymian people of
Sicily who she
spent several nights with at
Lilybaeum to make...
