The ancient Greek city-state of Syracuse on the eastern coast of Sicily started as a colony and became a Greek metropolis.

The other part of the property, Ancient Syracuse, includes the nucleus of the city’s foundation as Ortygia by Greeks from Corinth in the 8th century BC. The site of the city, which Cicero described as ...

Much of the ancient city has crumbled since Cicero’s day, though the ruins can still be explored in Syracuse’s celebrated archaeological park and museum. But the main attraction today is the ...

Barnsley, S. York.: Pen & Sword / Havertown, Pa.: Casemate, 2012. Pp. xx, 250. Illus., maps, diagr., notes, biblio., index. $39.95. ISBN: 1848843674 Less famous now ...