Near to Syracuse there is one of the most beautiful sites in all Italy, the theater at Taormina, overlooking from above the Mediterranean Sea and Mount Etna. In the time of Archimedes, the theater was used to stage plays by Sophocles and Euripides. The Romans adapted it for gladiatorial combat. In other words, the cultural battle between the world of Ecclesiasticus and that of Archimedes saw the complete triumph of the former.
