Volcanoes and Human Settlements

Abstract

Thus the great Greek geographer Strabo, in his work, Geography, who lived between 64 B.C. and 19 A.D. described the coast of the Piana Campana in the stretch from Sinuessa, a city in Lazio to the borders of Campania as far as Punta Campanella. It is also eloquent that at this time the word Cratere (Crater) was used to denote the structural depression of the Campanian plain overlooking the gulf of Naples between the island of Capri, to the west, and the island of Ischia to the south-east.