CLASSIC MODELS IN MODERN SICILY 



Photograph by Von Gloeden 



The present-day descendants of the early Greek colonists of Syracuse retain the grace 

 of pose and the symmetry of form which distinguished their ancestors of two thousand years 

 ago. Here is a youth who might have been the original for one of the matchless marbles of 

 Praxiteles or for a figure in a Phidian frieze. 



