# Narycus

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**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](/source/Opuntian_Locrians), the reputed birthplace of [Ajax, son of Oileus](/source/Ajax_the_Lesser),[1][2] who is hence called by [Ovid](/source/Ovid) "Narycius heros".[5] In 395 BC, [Ismenias](/source/Ismenias), a [Boeotian](/source/Ancient_Boeotia) commander, undertook an expedition against [Phocis](/source/Ancient_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](/source/Phayllus), the Phocian commander.[7] As [Locri](/source/Locri) in [Bruttium](/source/Bruttium) in [Italy](/source/Ancient_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](/source/Regkinio).[10][11]

## References

1. so in Diodorus.

1. Ov. *Met.* 14.468.

1. Virgil *G.* 2.438; Col. 10.386;

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