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|
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