The non-Greek Elymi of Segesta (Greek Egesta),…

The non-Greek Elymi of Segesta (Greek Egesta), their ancient chief city in northwest Sicily, are archaeologically indistinguishable from their Sicanian neighbors in the Early Iron Age, from about 1000 BCE to about 500 BCE.

Thucydides claims a Trojan origin; though culturally Segesta is Greek, it will generally take the Carthaginian side against its Greek neighbors, with whom it comes into conflict as early as 580, when the territory of the city, located about two miles (three kilometers) northwest of modern Calatafimi and twenty-nine miles (forty-six kilometers) southwest of modern Palermo, begins to be encroached upon by ...