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The name of the city comes from the eponymous character who, according to Apollonius of Rhodes’ Argonautica, was king of the Doliones, those descendants of Poseidon who lived on a Phrygian island in that area and were freed from the threat of the Earth-born (six-armed giants) by Heracles when he arrived there on the ship Argo, captained by ...
11 hours ago · Corfu is known as the island of the Phaeacians . The name Corfù is a Venetian and Italian version of the Byzantine Κορυφώ (Koryphō), meaning "city of the peaks". It derives from the Byzantine Greek Κορυφαί (Koryphai) (crests or peaks), denoting the two peaks of Palaio Frourio.
