c. 750 BCE

Euboeans settle Pithekoussai

In the 8th century BCE Greeks from Chalcis and Eretria set up a trading post at Pithekoussai on Ischia, with a mixed Greek, Etruscan and Phoenician population of 5,000-10,000 by 700. Nestor's Cup, c. 730, bears an early Greek inscription.