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Eryx (Sicily)
Eryx (Greek: ), was an ancient city and a mountain in the west of Sicily, about 10 km from Drepana (modern Trapani), and 3 km from the sea-coast. It was located at the site of modern Erice.
==The mountain==
The mountain,〔"Mons Eryx", Pliny iii. 8. s. 14; but "Mons Erycus", Cicero ''In Verrem'' ii. 4. 7; Tacitus ''Ann.'' iv. 43.〕 now called Monte San Giuliano, is a wholly isolated peak, rising in the midst of a low undulating tract, which causes its elevation to appear much more considerable than it really is, so that it was regarded in ancient as well as modern times as the most lofty summit in the whole island next to Aetna,〔Pol. i. 55; Pomponius Mela ii. 7. § 17; Gaius Julius Solinus 5. § 9.〕 though its real elevation does not exceed 2184 English feet.〔William Henry Smyth, ''Sicily'', p. 242.〕 Hence we find Eryx alluded to by Virgil and other Latin poets as a mountain of the first order of magnitude, and associated with Athos, Aetna, etc.〔Virgil ''The Aeneid'' xii. 701; Val. Flacc. ii. 523.〕 On its summit stood a celebrated temple of Venus or Aphrodite, founded, according to the current legend, by Aeneas,〔Strabo,
(xiii. p. 608 ): "... and others say that he landed at Aegesta in Sicily with Elymus the Trojan and took possession of Eryx and Lilybaeum, and gave the names Scamander and Simoeis to rivers near Aegesta, ..."; Virg. ''Aeneid'' v. 759.〕 from whence the goddess derived the surname of Venus Erycina, by which she is often mentioned by Latin writers.〔Horace ''Carm.'' i. 2. 33; Ovid, ''Heroid.'' 15. 57, etc.〕
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