Syracuse: Sicily's City of Stories

by Joachim Sartorius

A poetic and historical travelogue of Syracuse, Sicily.

Twenty-five hundred years ago, the city of Syracuse on the eastern coast of Sicily was, for the Ancient Greeks, one of the centers of the classical world. It was in Syracuse that Aeschylus premiered his plays, and to Syracuse that Plato would visit from Athens, where the tyrant Dionysius bought Euripides's lyre at auction, and the languishing nymph Arethusa hid in the papyrus grove...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1914982126
• ISBN13: 9781914982125
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Haus Pub.
• Length: 156 Pages