Scylletium
School or library
human settlement in Borgia, Calabria, Province of Catanzaro, Calabria, Italy
Approximate centre: 38.8070, 16.5933 · Pleiades 452439
What this place is
- School or library — Cassiodorus's Vivarium — the monastery he set on his family estate to copy and study books, and the reading list he wrote for it
Who is recorded here
- Cassiodorus birth · AD 487
- Cassiodorus death · AD 583
What happened here
- Cassiodorus founds Vivarium AD 554
In art
About the place
Scylletium, later Minervium and Colonia Minervia, was an ancient seaside city in present-day Calabria, southern Italy. Its ruins can be found at the frazione (borough) of Roccelletta in Borgia, near Catanzaro, facing the Gulf of Squillace.
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