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Greek Sicily Silly wat one oftheGrat ars coed by Gress fiom the lter porto he eighth entry BCs pric along it catera an souhern sea boards. The set seach re uta Land wasamply rewarded sessing ert ttade Wo the lan penis, noth Aten oa mainland Greece brought the lending commen Mian impressive level prepesty The character oftheir relations with mative peoples ‘ated, but the atcha reson shows how ‘cerywhere native tersary was intel degre, so that ser, the bes ade on te histoseal record ‘Quite independendy,Phsicians were atrae- fed othe fat west ofthe al ed the se time a Grek raced the est The rss Phen an base the tin sland Moty, was perhaps Intended as m0 mote than spore all 2b Aistance trang voyage. ‘eras, however {though the mescale shear) euaton sf od land was the principal pg oseemen ft Panormus (Phocsican Zi) aad Slant, loch perhaps dating oe the seventh entry “Mesya wa ink tothe mind by canny ‘Thnse "commanitn were inleerent a Carthage, and thir elute with Gee inthe Islnd remained generally excellent ol aun the er of the fit century. Even ae, hen Punic kate comes to be rod in re, ‘tis beat taken aga bo“ fala in ob ‘ay presuppesing a gl baer betwee ‘es while any notion tht Carthage des ty Farther imperitste ambitne in Sly i mis ple ‘Syracuse ‘The cighih century Corinthian selene at Syracie was orginally confined wo the nde ‘Origa, which ha 8 fesh water spy in fountain of Aretha and stacuars of Alin and Athena dating back at fst to the sixth ‘century Ist have bee nly ey hat the Jalan became Hinkel 10 the mala ys ‘uneway, andthe adjacent area of Acrainn (A ‘a map) was seed, wth aor, ification wall and the cals cemeteries bey, Later the ty ‘expanded ino the diaries of Tementes (TE, [Nespas (N), and Tyee (TY) “Te sow by Asean Bers in 5/9 a= ‘ated in detail by Thuyses ts hses wee the oat in the math aes ysimceao the Dea, waterless ada of Plemmyiom, and these uninhabited plate Epil whieh dominates the «ty But the Athenian plan ‘confine Syracuse within wall runing om Lysimetein northwards (pmceng sites worth for north eastwards acre ipa) was nese ‘mpletedy te Syracsane belle tree sounter allo rstatedhor attackers The oy tier Wit Epipola was singed with orcas by Dionysia Inthe early fourth century, amd 2 fortes il at Earyas, Remains ofthe foe public buildings eetedin Napa the hid totury sure. Eewhere modern occupation haslinved investigation of the ancient iy | | ATLAS | of CLASSICAL HISTORY ROUTLEDGE London and New York

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