italy2004 : photos : 07-05 Segesta and Agrigento : Our first stop was Segesta, an ancient city with an interesting history. I took this picture at the amphitheater. According to legend, it was settled by Trojans fleeing their country devastated by the Greeks in around 1200 BC. These people intermarried with the local population to some extent, and were known as the Elami. When the Greeks began arriving and settling Sicily in around 650 BC, they viewed the Elami as being more cultured than the rest of the Sicilian peoples, and gave them a favored status. Things soured in around 500 BC, when the Greek colony in Selinunte became more powerful, aligned themselves with Syracuse, and threatened the Elami.