In Sicily, Palermo, Syracuse and Catania, the three main cities on the Italian island, are attractive destinations for their ...

Born in Syracuse, Sicily (then part of Greece), in about 287 B.C., Archimedes traveled to Egypt at the age of 18 to study at the great library of Alexandria. Upon completing his studies ...

In the early 5th century B.C., the tyrants Theron of Akragas and Hieron I of Syracuse, heads of the two great ruling families of Sicily, brought to their courts the foremost Greek poets of the day.

In 264 B.C., the Roman army landed on the shores of Sicily. Hieron II, tyrant of Syracuse, immediately made peace with Rome, successfully controlling his kingdom for decades, while other Sicilian ...