Palazzolo Acreide, a town of Sicily, in the Province_of_Syracuse, 28 m. by road W. of it, 2285 ft. above sea-level. Jump to: navigation, search Sicilian disambiguates here; see also Sicilian language or Sicilian Defence. ... Syracuse (It. ...

The town occupies the site of the ancient Acrae, founded by Syracuse about 664 B.C. It followed in the main the fortunes of the mother city. In the treaty between the Romans and Hiero_II_of_Syracuse in 263 B.C. it was assigned to the latter. Grave monument of Hiëro II in Syracuse Hiero II, tyrant of Syracuse from 270 to 215 BC, was the illegitimate son of a Syracusan noble, Hierocles, who claimed descent from Gelo. ...

The ancient city lay on the hill above the modern town, the approach to it being defended by quarries, in which tombs of all periods have been discovered. The auditorium of the small theater is well preserved, though nothing of the stage remains. Close to it are ruins of other buildings, which bear, without justification, the names Naumachia, Odeum (perhaps a bath establishment) and Palace of Hiero. The water supply was obtained by subterranean aqueducts. In. the cliffs of the Monte Pineta to the south are other tomb chambers, and to the south again are the curious bas-reliefs called Santoni or Santicelli, mutilated in the 19th century by a peasant proprietor, which appear to be sepulchral also. Near here too is the necropolis of the Acrocoro della Torre, where many sarcophagi have been found. Five miles north lies Buscemi, near which a sacred grotto has been discovered; and also a church cut in the rock and surrounded by a cemetery. A naumachia was a mimic sea battle between prisoners of war or convicts which was set in flooded amphitheatres in ancient Rome. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Odeon was a building used for musical performance in Athens built in the 5th century BC. Hence, any building in ancient Greece or the ancient Roman Empire was called an odeon. ...

See G. Judica, Antichit di Acre (Messina, 1819). (Baron Judicas collection of antiquities was dispersed after his death.) J. Schubring, Jahrbuch fr Philologie, Suppl. IV., 662672.

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