AgrigentoEraclea Minoa.
Legend has it that the city was founded by the companions of Minos, after he, camed from Crete to pursue Daedalus, had been killed by the daughters of King Kòka1os. Apart from the legend, however, it is almost certain that the Mycaeneans visited these central and southem coasts of Sicily. The historical city was a Selinuntine colony from the 6th c. BC on, and its life was disturbed by the conflicts between Selinunte and Agrigento, and between the Carthaginians and the Romans. It then became a Roman civitas decumana; devastated during the Slave Revolts, it was repopulated by Publius Rupilius consul in 131 BC, and abandoned for good towards the end of the lst c. AD.

Recent excavations have brought to light, among other things, the outline of the boundary wall, the vast residential area of Hellenistic and Roman Republic age, a Hellenistic age Sanctuary and Hellenistic and Arabic tomb furnishings, and the theatre, built about the 3rd c. BC almost entirely in extremely friable blocks of marlstone: it looks out towards the sea, as is the rule in nearly alI the Sicilian coastal theatres.