Bay of Naples

Lucretius lived in Italy in a period when Epicureanism flourished there, especially in the area of the Bay of Naples, where a major Epicurean circle had formed around Philodemus. Philodemus.'library was rediscovered during the 18th-century excavations of Herculaneum (recent claims to have found remains of a copy of Lucretius' poem among its badly damaged contents may be unduly optimistic).

Lucretius Sedley, David 2008

Last summer a large yacht appeared in the Bay of Naples.

Suits for All Seasons 2007

Campania The fabulously rich and fertile volcanic basin that lay between the mountains of Samnium and the Tuscan Sea, and extended from Tarracina in the north to a point just south of the Bay of Naples.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

Campania The fabulously rich and fertile volcanic basin that lay between the mountains of Samnium and the Tuscan Sea, and extended from Tarracina in the north to a point just south of the Bay of Naples.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

It is now, I was told, in a ruinous condition, and is placed upon the “pinnacle of seven hills14” in a position somewhat like that of certain buildings on St. Angelo in the Bay of Naples.

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

Chalcis, Eretria, and the Aeolian city of Cyme jointly settled a colony on the island of Pithecusae (Ischia) in the Bay of Naples.

e. Central and Northern Greece 2001

Pithecusae (Ischia) was settled from Chalcis, Eretria, and Cyme on an island in the Bay of Naples.

f. Sicily and Magna Graecia 2001

To this end, staff specialists guide the students on site tours both within Pompeii and throughout the Bay of Naples area.

Interactive Dig Pompeii - Field Notes: July 9, 2001 2001

Unfortunately, the frigates had been separated from him in the tempest and had not been able to rejoin: they sought him unsuccessfully in the Bay of Naples, where they obtained no tidings of his course: and he sailed without them.

The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson Southey, Robert, 1774-1843 1993

The apostle was a citizen of a Greek city, and the language in which he spoke was Greek; and here, in the Bay of Naples, he was in the midst of a Greek colony, where Roman influence had not been able to efface the deep impression which Greece had made upon the place.

Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan