Robin Lane Fox observes of Euboean Greek settlements in Sicily and Italy, During their first phase in the West, c. 800-740, stories of mythical heroes were not already sited at points along the coast of Italy or Sicily. It was only later that such stories became located there, as if mythical heroes had been driven westward or fled from Asia while leaving the sack of Troy. The heroic legends, including an Odyssean geography, served to attach newly founded western communities to a prestigious ancestry in the Greeks' mythical past. Fox notes that even Circe found a home on Monte Circeo between Rome and Cumae: but this association began at the earliest in the later sixth century BC. The Etruscan king Tarquin the Proud (c. 530-510) was credited with the settlement and in due course the very 'cup' of Odysseus was shown at the site.