Siracusa was colonized by Corinthian Greeks in the 8th C. BCE. In Greek Mythology, the nymph Arethusa, pursued from Greece by the river god Archelos, took refuge on Syracuse's Island of Ortigia where, for her salvation, she was changed into a fresh-water spring by Artemis. The modern statuary above (shown top, left) of Archelos chasing Arethusa is placed near a Syracuse fountain supplied by an unusual fresh-water spring. The many archeological sites of Syracuse (only 2 of which can be presented here) include the Latomias (shown next) -- the stone quarries that held, in the 5th C. BCE, the 7000 prisoners who were the survivors of the ill-fated Athenian expedition against Syracuse. The Fortification Wall (shown last) was built by Dionysius I, 405-367 BCE -- the very tyrant who expelled Plato from Syracuse.