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Syracusae
(4,720 words)

(Συράκουσαι/Syrákousai, Lat. Syracusae). Syracuse, town on Sicily's southeast coast, modern Siracusa.

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I. Topography

Colony of Corinth (Colonization), founded in 734/3 BC. The place name is said to have derived from the swamp area of Lysimeleia, also called Συράκω/Syrákō (cf. Scymn. 280-282), which existed until the 20th cent. and was located west of the slim promontory, which, together with the island Ortygia facing it, constituted the original bridgehead settlement (inhabited from the e…

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Günther, Linda-Marie (Munich) and Toral-Niehoff, Isabel (Freiburg), “Syracusae”, in: Brill’s New Pauly, Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and , Helmuth Schneider, English Edition by: Christine F. Salazar, Classical Tradition volumes edited by: Manfred Landfester, English Edition by: Francis G. Gentry. Consulted online on 19 March 2024 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e12225440>
First published online: 2006
First print edition: 9789004122598, 20110510



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