Akrai (Ancient Greek: Ἄκραι; Latin: Acrenses) was a Greek colony of Magna Graecia founded in Sicily by the Syracusans in 663 BC. It was located near the...

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powerful Greek city anywhere in the Mediterranean. Colonies were founded at Akrai (664 BC), Kasmenai (643 BC), Akrillai (7th century BC), Helorus (7th century BC)...

lived here in small villages. The town occupies the site of the ancient Akrai (Latin Acrae), founded by Syracuse around 664 BC. The city was important...

Kerényi draws attention especially to the rock carvings in the town of Akrai, Sicily. Bloomsbury (1996), "Dioscuri", Dictionary of Myth, London: Bloomsbury...

road-station on the route from Syracuse to Gela and Akragas. By passing via Akrai and Kasmenai, the road avoided the low Hyblaean Mountains and Hybla Heraea...

of statues carved into a rock face near Palazzolo Acreide, the ancient Akrai, in Sicily. The statues are the remains of a sanctuary for one of the most...

The oldest recorded settlement in the Val di Noto was the ancient town of Akrai, near Palazzolo Acreide, founded in 664 BC. It was the first colony of the...

earlier geography now missing except for fragments. Asia is defined by two akrai, "bluffs" or "shores." One runs from Phasis in Colchis (Georgia) at the...

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