The Temple of Olympian Zeus is considered the largest in the whole of Sicily: 30 metres high, 112 metres long and 56 metres wide, it celebrated Agrigento's victory over the Carthaginians. Such majestic proportions made it a veritable manifesto for the propaganda of the tyrant Theron's power. Cons...

Theron was ruler of Agrigento from 488 BC to 472 BC. He was the young heir of the Emmenidae, an aristocratic family that originated from the Rhodian founders of Akragas. Like Phalaris, he ruled for sixteen years, but his tyranny was so inspired by the ideals of justice that he made Akragas powerfu...

Thanks to the detailed descriptions of the Temple of Olympian Zeus left to us by [approfondimenti id="3138" testo_link="Diodorus Siculus"] and Polybius, it was possible to speculate about reproductions not only of the temple's structure, but also of the decorations that embellished it during its hey...

In 2001 the Italian Environment Fund began work to salvage this lush area of plants and flowers, so that today the Kolymbetra Garden is rich in vegetation so varied that it accommodates types of citrus groves that were there in medieval times. The highest parts of the valley are home to the typical...

[approfondimenti id="3870" testo_link="Pindar"], in the 5th century BC, called Akragas the most beautiful city of mortals. In fact, it was in the 5th century that ancient Agrigento went through a period of particular splendour and prosperity, which allowed the city to truly monumentalise the spaces...

At the south-east end of ancient Akragas, on the highest rocky spur of the hill of the temples stood the majestic Temple of Hera Lacinia with its east-facing façade.Unfortunately, the temple's traditional name is [approfondimenti id="3904" testo_link="wrong"] and some archaeological finds in the ar...