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Taormina: People from Taormina, Wilhelm Von Gloeden, Pancras of Taormina, Isola Bella, Taormina Film Fest, Corvaja Palace, Daphne Phelps

Taormina: People from Taormina, Wilhelm Von Gloeden, Pancras of Taormina, Isola Bella, Taormina Film Fest, Corvaja Palace, Daphne Phelps


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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: People From Taormina, Wilhelm Von Gloeden, Pancras of Taormina, Isola Bella, Taormina Film Fest, Corvaja Palace, Daphne Phelps, Villa Schuler Taormina. Excerpt: Taormina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Taormina's area was inhabited by the Siculi even before the Greeks arrived on the Sicilian coast in 832 BC to found a town called Naxos. The theory that Tauromenion was founded by colonists from Naxos is confirmed by Strabo and other ancient writers. The new settlement seems to have risen rapidly to prosperity, and was apparently already a considerable town at the time of the expedition of Timoleon in 345 BC. It was the first place in Sicily where that leader landed, having eluded the vigilance of the Carthaginians, who were guarding the Straits of Messina, and crossed direct from Rhegium (modern Reggio di Calabria) to Tauromenium. The city was at that time still under the government of Andromachus, whose mild and equitable administration is said to have presented a strong contrast with that of the despots and tyrants of the other Sicilian cities. He welcomed Timoleon with open arms, and afforded him a secure resting place until he was enabled to carry out his plans in other parts of Sicily. Andromachus was not deprived of his position of power when all the other tyrants were expelled by Timoleon, but was permitted to retain it undisturbed till his death. (Marcellin. Vit. Thucyd. 27.) Little is known about Tauromenium for some time after this. It is probable that it passed under the authority of Agathocles, who drove the historian Timaeus into exile; and some time after this it was subject to a domestic despot of the name of Tyndarion, who was contemporary with Hicetas of Syracuse and Phintias of Agrigentum. Tyndarion was one of those who... More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=198115


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  • ISBN-13: 9781158019007
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • Sub Title: People from Taormina, Wilhelm Von Gloeden, Pancras of Taormina, Isola Bella, Taormina Film Fest, Corvaja Palace, Daphne Phelps
  • Width: 229 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1158019009
  • Publisher Date: 12 Jun 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Weight: 64 gr


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