For millennia, Greeks, Phoenicians, and Etruscans vied for dominion over the Mediterranean. As the latin historian Titus Livius tells us (Ab Urbe condita VIII, 22) after colonizing Cumae, the Greeks foundedParthenope and Dicearchia ( modern-day Pozzuoli). Parthenope stood on a hill surrounded on three sides by the sea: To the west lay the Chiaia beach; […]