Search -
A History of Greece: From the Earliest Period to the Close of the Generation Contemporary with Alexander the Great
A History of Greece From the Earliest Period to the Close of the Generation Contemporary with Alexander the Great Author:George Grote General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1882 Original Publisher: Allison Subjects: Greece History / Ancient / Greece History / Europe / Greece Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of t... more »his book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: LOCAL CONDITION OF SYRACUSE. 89 apprised of the arrival of the re-enforcements from Athens, and aware that besieging operations were on the point of being commenced, now thought it necessary to take the precaution of occupying and guarding tlie road. s of access to the higli ground of EpipoltB which overhung their outer city. Syracuse consisted at this time of two parts, an inner and outer city". Tlie former w,-is comprised in the island of Ortygia. the original settlement founded by Archias, and within which the modern city is at this moment included: the latter or outer city, afterward known by the name of Achradina. occupied the high ground of the peninsula north of Ortygia, but does not seem to have joined tlie inner city, or to have b:'en comprised in the same fortification. This outer city was defended, on the north and cast, by the sea. with rocks presenting great difficulties of landing -- and by a sea wall; so that on these sides it was out of the reach of attack. Its wall on the land side, beginning from the sea somewhat eastward of the entrance of the cleft now called Santa Bonagia or Pauagia, ran in a direction westward of soulh as far as the termination of the high ground of Achradina, and then turned eastward along the stone quarries now known as those of the Capucins and Novanteris. where the ground is in part so steep, that probably little fortification was needed. This fortified high land of Achradina thus constituted the outer city; while the lower ground, situated between it and the ...« less