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Palazzolo Acreide, Sicily, Italy : excavations in 2013

2013, 52, Tom 52, Nr A

Roksana Chowaniec

0000-0003-3882-8797

University of Warsaw, Faculty of Archaeology

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Publication date

07.01.2013

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CC BY 4.0 Int.

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Humanities

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archeology

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English

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Abstract

The archaeological site of Akrai is situated close to the modern town of Palazzolo Acreide, in the province of Syracuse, in the south-eastern part of Sicily. As a Greek colony the town developed in the shadow of the metropolis, Syracuse, one of the most important cities of the ancient Greek world. Thanks to the strategic location of Akrai, and also the fact that few rivers surrounded the territory, Syracuse had full control of this part of the island. Akrai flourished at the time of hiero II, the ruler of Syracusein the period of 270/269–215 BC. Its development is affirmed by the theatre and bouleuterion construction (BERNABò BREA 1956). It is not clear how the town functioned in the period after the fall of Syracuse. our ignorance of the nature of the town and that part of history, and also absence of evidence concerning residential buildings, has stimulated new archaeological excavations and ‘conceived’ Akrai again.

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