36 Hours in Siracusa

September 5, 2019

in the prolific years before he was killed by a tortoise that had been dropped by an eagle, the celebrated Athenian playwright Aeschylus visited the ancient Greek theater of Syracuse to stage “Women of Etna.” The play, performed there in 475 B.C., has been mostly lost to time, but much of the semicircular stone theater remains impressively intact and hosts performances to this day.