Wonderful
legends on the founding of a civilisation. The Greeks, that navigated along the
Italian coast establishing landing-places and who then started to trade, arrived
on these unknown shores when, for political reasons or because of overpopulation,
had to find new spaces; it was also probably the same for Cuma, near to the
former Greek settlement of Pithecussai, the small island of Vivara, next to
Procida.
Cuma – from Th. Salomon: Anonymous – XV111 century