The Land of the Cyclops
Few Sicilian towns claimed greater antiquity than Gela, where the center of the American assault was to fall. Founded on a limestone hillock by Greek colonists from Rhodes and Crete in 688 b.c., Gela had since endured the usual Mediterranean calamities, including betrayal, pillage, and, in 311 b.c., the butchery of five thousand citizens by a rival warlord.| Comments on article "The Land of the Cyclops" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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