Herculea

For the Ancient city in Macedonia, see Ardamerium. For the moth genus, see Herculia (moth).

Herculea was a southern Italian colony of the classical Greek city Megara (or The Megarid) which was located on the isthmus across to the Peloponnese], adjacent to Corinth and Attica.

Herculea, though not referred to often in the writings of historians at the time such as Herodotus and Thucydides, was a considerable step towards Mediterranean discovery and expansion for the more often than not isolationist Peloponnesian League related city/states.