The city of Parthenope was one of the earliest ancient Greek settlements on the coast of what is now Naples, Italy.

and Greeks had maintained regular contacts with Italy even before the founding of the first permanent colony in Italy at Cumae in the mid eighth century B.C.; the Greeks of the colonial foundations of ...

The first Greek colony in Italy was established here in the eighth century B.C. For the next 2,000 years Cumae played a unique role in the development of Western civilization ...