The generation of Ephso and Gorgidas and Calliope created several small communities in western Sicily. They named the first one Drepanon, on the shore where they had landed. Communities grew and spread around the region and other cities were founded – Entella, Segesta, and Halyciae. But for all these people, construction was the first order of business. Cities grew quickly. First, there were homes to build, then communal buildings including religious centers and shrines, then they cleared roads and paved some of them with smooth, rounded rocks. By the time the next generation had supplanted the explorers who first brought the Elymi to this island, the cities hosted large populations and an economy based on trade.
Looming over Drepanon was a mountain that sometimes hid its peak in the clou
