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CHRISTOPHER BARON

University of Notre Dame

Agylla is the older Greek name for the Etruscan city of Caere (BA 44 B2), modern Cerveteri northwest of Rome. Herodotus recounts (1.167.1–2) how the Carthaginians and Etruscans after the naval battle of ALALIA (c. 540 BCE) stoned to death their Phocaean prisoners on the Italian shore near Agylla. When, subsequently, every living thing that passed by the site was debilitated, the Agyllaeans sent to DELPHI, where the god instructed them to honor the dead Phocaeans as HEROES. Herodotus states that SACRIFICES and athletic games were still held there in his day. Later authors report a tradition that the city was founded by PELASGIANS (Briquel 1984, 169–224).

SEE ALSO: Carthage; Curses; Italy; Phocaea; Prisoners of War; Tyrrhenians