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ALISON LANSKI

University of Notre Dame

A still‐important port city in the “heel” of ITALY along the ADRIATIC coast (BA 45 G3; modern Brindisi). Herodotus uses Brundisium (the Latinized form of the name; Gk. Brentesion) and its position on the Iapygian peninsula as an example during his explanation of the GEOGRAPHY of the Scythian coast (4.99.5); his choice signals that Brundisium was a place known to his AUDIENCE. The city was named either for a son of HERACLES, Brentus, or for the deer‐antler shape of its HARBORS (Steph. Byz. s.v. Βρεντέσιον (Β 168)). It appears to have been a Messapian community originally, Hellenized by the fifth century BCE. A Roman colony was established at Brundisium in 244 BCE, and it remained a crucial link between Italy and the East (Strabo 6.3.7/C282–83).

SEE ALSO: Analogy; Iapygia; Messapians; Scythians; Taurians