From Hercules and Archimedes to Roman conquest, Billy Cotsis traces the rise and fall of Greek colonies across the Western Mediterranean — with Syracuse as their final stronghold ...

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

You were wrong! On the contrary, Sicily was one of the most important Greek colonies in ancient times and the island is full ...

Believed to be the oldest known Greek auditorium ever ... ancient Greece’s most important colonies. After reading about the ancient Greek classroom in Sicily, dive into the legends of 12 ancient ...

The largest archeological area in Europe at about 670 acres, this site was once home to one of the largest Greek colonies on the ... the town of Castelvetrano on Sicily's western coast about ...

was associated with the founding of colonies in ancient Greece and therefore was commonly worshiped in the Greek city-states of Sicily. Lorenzo Campagna, a professor of archaeology at the University ...

In the first battle of 480 BCE, the Himerans prevailed with the aid of two other Greek colonies, Agrigento and ... the indigenous population who inhabited Sicily before the colonization.

ROME, Sept 2 (Reuters) - A rare haul of 27 silver Roman coins dated between 94 and 74 BC has been discovered on the remote island of Pantelleria, the Sicily ... of an ancient Greek colony founded ...