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  2. Greek Theatre of Syracuse - Wikipedia

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    Another typical characteristic of Greek theatres is the celebration of the panoramic view, also applied to the theatre of Syracuse, offering a view of the bay of the port and the island of Ortygia. The theatron had a diameter of 138.6 metres, one of the largest in the Greek world, and originally had 67 rows of seating, mostly cut into rock, and ...

  3. Roman amphitheatre of Syracuse - Wikipedia

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    The amphitheatre is located in the ancient suburb of Neapolis, in what is now an archaeological park, near the Greek theatre and the Altar of Hieron.The amphitheatre is on a different orientation to these other structures and probably follows the lines of an urban plan developed in the late classical period, which is reflected by the street discovered near the Sanctuary of Demeter in the ...

  4. Altar of Hieron - Wikipedia

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    The Greek theatre (centre) and the Altar of Hieron (middle right), seen from the west. The structure is aligned roughly north-north-west to south-east-east, and is located in the Neapolis, slightly to the southeast of the Greek theatre. [1] Almost nothing except the foundations of the structure survive today.

  5. File:Theatre at Syracuse, Sicily.jpg - Wikipedia

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  6. Category:Theatres in Sicily - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Theatres in Sicily" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. ... Greek Theatre of Syracuse; S. Teatro Sangiorgi, Catania; T.

  7. Syracuse, Sicily - Wikipedia

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    Syracuse was founded in 734 or 733 BC in Sicily by Greek settlers from Corinth and Tenea, led by the oecist (colonizer) Archias. There are many attested variants of the name of the city including Συράκουσαι Syrakousai, Συράκοσαι Syrakosai and Συρακώ Syrakō. [7]

  8. Temple of Apollo (Syracuse) - Wikipedia

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    Floor plan. The temple's stylobate measures 55.36 x 21.47 metres, with its very squat columns in a 6 x 17 arrangement. It represents the moment of transition in the Greek west between temples with a wooden structure and those built completely out of stone, with a hexastyle front and a continuous colonnade around the perimeter which surrounds the pronaos and a naos divided into three aisles by ...

  9. History of Greek Sicily - Wikipedia

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    The first Greek colonies were founded in eastern Sicily in the 8th century BC when the Chalcidian Greeks founded Zancle, Naxos, Leontinoi and Katane; in the south-east corner the Corinthians founded Syracuse and the Megareans Megara Hyblaea, while on the western coast the Cretans and Rhodians founded Gela in 689 BC, with which the first Greek colonisation of Sicily ended.

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