Continuing our walk around Syracuse's Ortigia island...
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| How can you go wrong? |
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Executive summary: river god, Alpheus, takes a liking to nymph, Arethusa,
and chases her; just as he is about to get her, she appeals to her patron goddess,
Diana, who transforms her into a beautiful seaside spring |
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The spring: it's rather special when myth and an actual place coincide; another
instance of this, for us, was the Chimaera, in Turkey; but this is not merely myth,
it is a story from Ovid's Metamorphoses; Vicki had a course on it in college... |
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| Contemporary rendition |
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| Celebrating Ovid's revival of Greek poetic meter in the Metamorphoses |
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| Mediterranean color |
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| Another street scene |
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| Sicily is heavily into recycling; here, a cleverly disguised row of bins |
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| Fortress |
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| San Sebastian, patron saint of archers |
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| Huh? |
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| Off an alley...cleaning and de-bearding mussels |
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| Fixer-upper |
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| At the market...irresistible ground pistachios |
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Delicious but unidentified berries the ladies in Noto had
fed us...like honey in a berry |
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| Our encampment at the marina in Syracuse |
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| Neighbor |
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| The view |
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