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Syracuse: Sicily's City of Stories
Translated by Stephen Brown, By (author) Joachim Sartorius
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Syracuse, on the eastern coast of Sicily, was one of the great cities of the ancient Mediterranean: a place of brute power, dazzling culture, and vivid myth. Here, tyrants waged wars and built vast palaces, Aeschylus staged tragedies, Plato hoped to create his ideal ‘philosopher king’, and the nymph Arethusa, transformed into water, lived on as a spring fringed with papyrus. Moving to the city after a bereavement, the poet Joachim Sartorius discovers a place of haunting and haunted beauty, where the layers of the past are always visible. At his side we wander with demigods and generals through the old town of Ortigia and meet the people of the present-day city: its artists and police officers, café owners and barbers, barons and refugees. Unravelling the threads of Sicilian history, Sartorius explores the city’s mingling of ancient and modern, Greek and Arab, medieval and baroque, creating a portrait of a city inseparably entwined with its past.
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Publisher | Haus Publishing
Published date | 19 Mar 2026
Language | English
Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 166
Dimensions | 198 x 129 x 13mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 0g
ISBN | 978-1-9149-8217-0
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BISAC | travel / essays & travelogues
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