Narycus or Narykos (Ancient Greek: Νάρυκος),[1] or Naryx (Νάρυξ),[2] or Naryca or Naryka (Νάρυκα),[3] or Narycium,[4] was a town of the Opuntian Locrians, the reputed birthplace of Ajax, son of Oïleus,[1][2] who is hence called by Ovid "Narycius heros".
[5] In 395 BC, Ismenias, a Boeotian commander, undertook an expedition against Phocis, and defeated the Phocians near Naryx of Locris, whence we may conclude that Narycus was near the frontier of Phocis.
[6] In 352 BC, Narycus was taken by Phayllus, the Phocian commander.
[7] As Locri in Bruttium in Italy was, according to some of the ancients, a colony of Narycus,[8] the epithet of Narycian is frequently given to the Bruttian pitch.
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