Megaris
Megaris a small island on the coast of Campania, mentioned by Pliny (3.6. s. 12), who places it between Pausilypus and Neapolis; it can therefore be no other than the islet or rock now occupied by the Castel dell' Ovo. [NEAPOLIS] It is evidently the same which is called by Statius Megalia. (Stat. Silv. 2.2. 80.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.