Narycus

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 Telamon,^[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.^[9]

Its location is near the modern Rengini.^[10][11]