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This page is part of the "tools" section of a site, Plato and his dialogues, dedicated to developing a new interpretation of Plato's dialogues. The "tools" section provides historical and geographical context (chronology, maps, entries on characters and locations) for Socrates, Plato and their time. By clicking on the minimap at the beginning of the entry, you can go to a full size map in which the city or location appears. For more information on the structure of entries and links available from them, read the notice at the beginning of the index of persons and locations.
City on the eastern coast of Sicily (area
1).
Syracuse was founded in 733 by settlers coming from Corinth
(Thucydides,
VI, 3). The site, with the island of Ortygia close to the shore, affords
two well protected harbors.
It was ruled by Dionysius the Elder from
406 to his death in 367
and Plato went to his court in about 387.
