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Modern Description: There is a question as to the location of the city of ancient Kyme – an important centre in antiquity, not least because it is said by Strabo to have been the co-founder (together with Chalcis) of its homonymous colony, Cumae, in the Bay of Naples in Italy. Some scholars thought that the true founder of the colony was a city of the same name in Aetolia: others have even doubted the very existence of a Euboean Kyme. Visible remains and archaeological finds, however, from the hill of Viglatouri at Oxylithos suggest that the site of the city which seeded Cumae in the 8th century BC may have been on its slopes. They bear witness to a continuous habitation from the Middle Helladic period (early 2nd millennium BC), through Mycenaean times and well into the Late Geometric era.

Info: McGilchrist's Greek Islands

(From McGilchrist’s Greek Islands, © Nigel McGilchrist 2010, excerpted with his gracious permission. Click for the books)

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