The Tideway (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Tideway The two churches faced each other, with the open space of the Naumachia between them, in the midst of which was the stone ship, like the one in the Piazza de Spagna at Rome, that gave the place its name. Santa Venera is a very old place, much older than its name, unless they are right who declare that no such Christian saint ever existed as Venera, and that the name is simply a variant of venere, and nothing more or less than the Italian form of the name of the goddess of love. These people maintain that the hill-town of Aphrodisia stood on this site, and that the church of Santa Venera, in the Naumachia, was a temple of Aphrodite seven hundred years before Christianity had any martyrs. Anyway, the place is admittedly an ancient Greek colony, founded from Colchis, a year or two later than Syracuse. And enthusiasts affirm that the people have Greek faces still, and that their speech is thickly strewn with Hellenisms. Throughout Sicily, we are constantly told, there are three strongly marked types: the Punic, the Greek, the Saracenic; and Santa Venera is in the heart of the Greek sphere. In all the world no place can be more exquisitely hung between the mountains and the sea - the Ionian Sea, where gods sailed and heroes who were the sons of gods. It is not half a mile inland, but a thousand feet above the saffron belt of shore; and from the Naumachia all the mountain gorges of Calabria, across the strait, are mysteriously visible. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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