Roman Forum at Syracuse
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Valeria Vitale
Creators: Valeria Vitale
Contributors:
Jonathan Prag, Jeffrey Becker
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Dec 21, 2024 03:21 PM
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History
tags:
extant remains
The area, roughly situated between the island of Ortygia and the district of Acradina, was used as an agora and, in later years, as the forum of the city of Syracuse. It is now a public park where ancient ruins are still visible.
500 km
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/649857186
37.0668091677, 15.2851669182
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of the so-called Roman Forum at Syracuse (550 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Foro Siracusano (Italian, modern)
- Roman Forum (English, modern)
- Roman Forum at Syracuse located at Syracusae/Syrakousai (unspecified date range)
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agora, forum
Pleiades
Valeria Vitale, Jonathan Prag, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Roman Forum at Syracuse: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/649857186> [accessed: 04 April 2025]
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