Venusia

Category
GEOGRAPHY - PLACES

Language
LATIN

The city was known as Venusia —to the Homeric hero Diomedes. He was said to have moved to Magna Graecia in southern Italy following the Trojan War, seeking a life of peace and building the town and its temples to appease the anger of Aphrodite for the destruction of her beloved Troy. <

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