Iapygia
place · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
coast of Iapygia · the Iapygian foreland
in the texts
The Histories
Coastal region where the returning Persian ships wreck and their crew is enslaved.
but their ships were wrecked on the coast of Iapygia, and they were made slaves in the country until Gillus, an exile from Tarentum, released and restored them to Darius, who was ready to give him whatever he wanted in return.
History of the Peloponnesian War
Region of south-eastern Italy where the Athenian relief fleet first makes landfall.
Demosthenes and Eurymedon, on the other hand, their forces being now ready both from Corcyra and the continent, crossed the Ionian gulf with all their army to the Iapygian foreland.