The ancients identified it as one of the theaters of the Gigantomachie between the gods of Olympus and the giant sons of Gaea. In that ardent "phlegraean" land, the elements manifested themselves at...

The big and fertile plain crossed by the Volturno had already been chosen several times in Antiquity.  By the Osci and by the Etruscans, founders of the city of Calatia since the 8th century, and...