The world: historical and actual . SYRACUSE. ornately. A Christianchurch was established at Ephesus in the apostolicage, to which St. Paul addressed one of his mostcharacteristic epistles, and it was there that thegreat apostle narrowly escaped being mobbed forpreaching the gospel, the cry of the mob being,•• (ireat is Diana of the Ephesians! Syracuse was once a very flourishing Creek cityof Sicily. Its prosperity began when the Romansgained possession of the rest of the island, whichhad been settled largely by the Phoenicians. That,change in the condition of Syracuse grew out ofthe first Puni
The world: historical and actual . SYRACUSE. ornately. A Christianchurch was established at Ephesus in the apostolicage, to which St. Paul addressed one of his mostcharacteristic epistles, and it was there that thegreat apostle narrowly escaped being mobbed forpreaching the gospel, the cry of the mob being,•• (ireat is Diana of the Ephesians! Syracuse was once a very flourishing Creek cityof Sicily. Its prosperity began when the Romansgained possession of the rest of the island, whichhad been settled largely by the Phoenicians. That,change in the condition of Syracuse grew out ofthe first Punic war. which settled the question ofsupremacy between Rome and Carthage. Withoutanticipating the chapter devoted to that struggle, itmay be said that in B. C. 275 the Roman power es-tablished the rule in Syracuse of Hiero II., anally of Rome, and that under this king the city prospered greatly. Its population was immense andits public buildings magnificent. But in the secondPunic war Syracuse sided with Carthage, a fatalmistak
Size: 1757px × 1423px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, booksubjectworldhistory, bookyea
