 Under Roman rule it became a district of Roman agricultural villas.A mythical founder Coragino, companion of Ulysses, is a medieval invention recounted in the fourteenth-century "Conto di Corciano e di Perugia".With the unsettled conditions of Late Antiquity, the inhabitants withdrew to the defensible hilltop site that controlled the valley that communicated between Lake Trasimeno and the upper Tiber valley.