>Italus or Italos (from Ancient Greek: Ἰταλός) was a legendary king of the Oenotrians, ancient people of Italic origin who inhabited the region now called Calabria, in southern Italy. In his Fabularum Liber (or Fabulae), Gaius Julius Hyginus recorded the myth that Italus was a son of Penelope and Telegonus (a son of Odysseus by Circe)>According to Aristotle (Politics) and Thucydides (History of the Peloponnesian War), Italus was the eponym of Italy (Italia)>Aristotle, writing in the 4th century BCE, relates that, according to tradition, Italus converted the Oenotrians from a pastoral society to an agricultural one and gave them various ordinances, being the first to institute their system of common meals>Writing centuries later, the Greek historian Dionysius of Halicarnassus (c. 60 BCE – after 7 BCE) in his Rhomaike Archaiologia (Antiquitates romanae, "Roman Antiquities"), cites Antiochus of Syracuse (fl. 420 BCE) for the information that Italus was an Oenotrian by birth and relates the tradition that Italia was named after him, as well as another account that derives the name "Italia" from a word for calf, an etymology also given by Timaeus, Varro, and Festus
>>18507247I Megali Ellada is delicious
>>18507247Is funny because the browner and shorter people of center-south Italy (lazio and below) are the true romans while everything above lazio are just lombard germanics
>>18507309Total baloney. No area of Italy has ever been "Germanic", the Longobards were a minority and were just assimilated by the Italian majority overtime until they disappeared genetically, culturally and linguistically. Northern Italians are still mainly Italic everywhere except in South Tyrol. Ironically the highest concentration of Germanic ydna is in Sicily because of the Normans
>>18507427>AI sourcewhile that might be true on average if you actually look around you can easily notice areas where Germanic phenotypes are much more common than others.
>>18507247I’m not sure that counts cause the romans would never name italy after some king and if the greeks wanted to name the country after a king i reckon the country would just get called basileous or something like that
>>18507511>questioning guy saying "italians are italians, actually" and not the paki saying polentoni were replaced by germans
>>18507427Yeah. We had some redhead (female) in my office who was taller than me, and said she was Italian. I blurted out - "Tyrol!" like the autistic dwarf I am. No. Amazon was Sicilian.
>>18507924[samefag] I suspect Tyrol Italians might actually not introduce themselves as Italians in the US. Here in Burgerland we get a lot of Sicilians who call themselves Italians, more than the Sicilians might in Italy.
