Pergamea

Pergamea was the city that Aeneas and his crew began to found in the Aeneid on the island of Crete. In Delos, Apollo had delivered them an oracle telling them that they would found a new city in their homeland. They misinterpreted this to mean Crete, but oracle had meant Italy. When they began to build the city, they were struck down with disease. Apollo appeared to Aeneas in a dream and told him that they were at the wrong place and that they should push on to Italy.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Aeneid Book III, 131
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