Arethousa (on coins) flew to Ortygia, Syracuse
No marble, limestone and porous limestone
Empedocles: “the soul is godly, lives in the body until it is cleansed. I used to be a bush, some plant and a fish”
Birthplace of Rhetoric culture. Gorgias was first, 5th cent. BC
Archimedes: body that sinks in water loses as much weight as the weight of the water it displaces.
Hydraulic clock, odometer, pulleys & gears
Battle of Imera, 480 BC against Carhedonians. Gelon offered a golden tripod to Delphi.
First book on cooking by Mithekos “Opsartitikon”
Tavromenion, Taormina: its theatre has a unique view
Fine acoustics in the caves of the quarries near Syracuse.
Messine or Zangle (means drepanon, shape of the peninsula)
Aisxilos died at Gelon, with tombstone mentioning his part in the Marathon battle
Archeological remains at Selinounta are the largest in Europe.
Acragas (Agrigento) is the nicest city of the mortals (Pindar)
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