Illustrations of school classics, arranged and described (1903)
Hill, George Francis, Sir, 1867-1948 · London, Macmillan · leaf 479
o columns are all that remains of the temple ofZeus Olympius at Syracuse, situated on the west shore ofthe Great Harbour. The columns are monoliths, not builtof several drums, and are of early date (nearly as early asthe foundation of Syracuse, about 734 B.C.) ; probably theneighbourhood of the… … Eryx (Mte. S. Giuliano) was celebrated for its temple ofVenus Erycina, as the Romans called the goddess (a form ofthe Phoenician Astarte) whose worship was establishedthere by the Phoenicians (cp. Nos. 55, 56). The walls ofthe fortress are of Carthaginian work, but the arch is alater insertion.…
Classical antiquities
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