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Pithecuse = Ischia

8th Century

Cumae = Cuma

Before 725 B.C.E.

The Greeks from Cumae founded a "new city", Neapolis, in the same place that an earlier settlement called Parthenope, after the Siren Parthenope who had her spell broken by Odysseus.