- Alternative names
- Iapyges
- Information
- in southeast Italy
- Alternative name
- 🌍 Messapia (alt. Iapygia)
- Settled by
- 👤 Messapos 👤 Iapyx
- Settled from
- 🌍 Crete (island) 🌍 Arcadia 🌍 Illyria
- Eponym
- 👤 Iapyx
- Ruled by
- 👥 the Companions of Diomedes
- Conquered by
- 👤 Diomedes (Argive I) 👥 the Companions of Diomedes
- Related Entities
- 👤 Diomedes (Argive I) 🌍 Crete (island) 👤 Helen 👤 Menelaos 👤 Minos 🌍 Troy (Troad) 🌍 Arcadia 🌍 the Land of the Ethiopians 🌍 Illyria 🌍 River Nile (Egypt) 🌍 Byblos (Phoinicia) 🌍 Delphi (Phocis) 🌍 Sicily (island) 🌍 Croton (Italy) 🌍 Eryx (Sicily) 🌍 Emathia (N. Greece) 👤 Daunos 👥 the Earlier Athenian Tributes 👤 Messapos 🌍 Mount Messapion (Boiotia) 🌍 Siris (S. Italy) 🏛️ the Cave of Typhon (Cilicia) 🌍 the Land of the Eremboi 🏛️ the Stone Old Woman (Mt Casios) 🏛️ the Tomb of Adonis (Byblos) 🌍 the Sanctuary of Athena (Apulia) 🌍 Drepanon (W. Sicily) 🌍 the Sanctuary of Heracles at Aithalia 👤 Iapyx 👥 the Companions of Diomedes 🌍 Concheia (Sicily) 🌍 Lake Gonousa (Sicily) 👤 Daughter of Daunos (name unknown)
- Mentioned by
- 📖 Lycophron, Alexandra 820-876 📖 Plutarch, Theseus 16.2 📖 Strabo 9.2.13 📖 Strabo 6.3.2 📖 Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses 37: The Dorians 📖 Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses 31: The Messapians
- Mentioned in Text
- Lycophron, Alexandra Plutarch, Theseus Strabo Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses
- Mentioned in citation of
- 📖 Aristotle fr. 485 Rose 📖 Nicander, Heteroeumena fr. 47 Gow-Scholfield