Circeii

View of San Felice Circeo from Mount Circeo
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Circeii was an ancient Roman city on the site of modern San Felice Circeo and near Mount Circeo, the mountain promontory on the southwest coast of Italy. The area around Circeii and Mount Circeo was thickly populated with Roman villas and other buildings, of which the remains of many can still be seen.

The origin of the name is uncertain: it has naturally been connected with Homer's legend of Circe.[1] The difficulty has been raised that the promontory ceased to be an island well before Homer's time; but Procopius remarked that the promontory has all the appearance of an island until one is actually upon it.[2][3]

  1. ^ Homer: Odyssey
  2. ^ Procopius, Wars 5.11.2–4
  3. ^  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Ashby, Thomas (1911). "Circeius Mons". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 6 (11th ed.). pp. 381–382.