GREEK MYTHOSThe Godsunder Codex · Places
OTRANTO (settlement in Iapygia)
Italian comune
- Kind of place
- Settlement
- Region
- Iapygia
- Where
- 40.15° N, 18.49° E
Hydruntum is the location where the Ionian and Adriatic seas are separated. Pliny, Nat. Hist. 3.16 ¶1 The town of the Apolloniates lies opposite Hydruntum across the sea, at a width of under fifty miles. Pliny, Nat. Hist. 3.16 ¶1
Described in the sources
It lies 400 stadia from Brentesium. Strabo 6.3.5 The town is situated 150 stadia from Leuca. Strabo 6.3.5 The distance across the sea from Hydruntum to Greece is the shortest. Pliny, Nat. Hist. 3.16 ¶1