Selinunte, Sicily: Where a Greek City Fell Silent
Few ancient cities in Sicily occupy a setting as memorable as Selinunte. Spread across a wide plateau overlooking the Mediterranean, olive trees, palms, wildflowers and open sky surround its Doric columns, ruined walls and vast fields of fallen stone. The Greeks knew the ancient city as Selinous. Colonists from Megara Hyblaea, a Greek settlement on…
