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Neapolis Archaeological Site

Description: Park containing the major monuments of the aincent Greek city of Syracuse, located in modern day Siracusa, Sicily.

Newest Review: ... the hill, holding cameras through a five-minute lecture in which they hear that Aeschylus and Epicarmo, who created the Greek comedy genre here, premiered new works in a theatre lauded by Plato and Aristotle, which held 15,000 spectators and dates from the 5th century B.C., making it the oldest Greek theatre entirely in stone. Politicians sat in the centre, nobles at the top, and neither paid ... more

... anything for their tickets. Finally, the theatre was modified in the 2nd century B.C. and largely dismantled eighteen centuries later when the Spanish carted it off to be used in the construction of their fortifications in Ortigia. Lecture over, the t...more

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Neapolis Archaeological Site: On The Shoulders Of Giants (1566 words)
by - written on 20/10/03 (Very useful, 557 readings)
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Syracuse was the New York of the ancient world, its grandiose monuments every inch as iconic to Plato, Archimedes and Cicero as lofty Art Deco skyscrapers, Macey's and the Statue of Liberty are to us. Modern Siracusa, having suffered the debilitating effects of colonial marginalization, aerial bombardment by both the Allies and the Luftwaffe, and a hotch-potch muddle of painted high rise concrete split by traffic clogged roads, retains all too few structures of this bygone age, the unsightly encroachment of post-war development checked only by the crumbling palazzos and tilting side streets of inner Ortigia and the wondrous remains preserved in the Parco Archeologico ... Read the complete review

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