]\IR F. C. PENROSE ON THE ORIENTATION OF CERTAIN 
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The tenii)les of tliree of these towns are represented in the elements of orientations 
above given, and It will be seen that much more than half of the number of examples 
fall in with the dates derived from Thucydides. As respects those which seem to 
require an earlier foundation, it must be borne in mind that Thucydides, in naming 
tliose particular cities, is not speaking of the earliest occupation of the island, but of 
its colonization by expeditions from certain particular Greek states which took 
})ossession of different parts of Sicily. In the same book Thucydides refers to a 
much more ancient colonization, in which he mentions exiles from Troy, who, after 
settling in Sicily, combined fc.rces with certain Greeks from Phocis. Segesta seems 
to date from that period and occupation, and not only at Segesta, but elsewhere the 
earliest inhabitants of the country would naturally have possessed themselves of the 
sites most suitable for habitation and defence, and it would follow that when, in the 
eighth century b.c., the Greek colonists mentioned by Thucydides possessed them¬ 
selves of the country they would have found in some of the cities temples dedicated 
to the same Olympian gods that they themselves acknowledgech 
Fig. 2.—Diagram of the Temples at Selinus. 
A/OfiTH 
o 
CAD 
r 
CA-' 
C 
Group of Temp/eo ; 
on Che CiCdael. ' 
SOUTH 
Group on EasCem HiH. 
o 500 /poo feeC- 
I I I I j_I_I-1-^-1-1 
sc ALT FOR TEMPLES. 
The citadel group is about 1000 yards ’.vest and 600 yards south of the grouji 
on the Eastern Hill. 
We learn, also, from Egyptian sources that even at the etid of the fourteenth 
century b.c. there were alliances between the Greeks and the Sicilians. In the 
5th year of IIameses III., ?.c., about 1300 b.c., a combined attack was made upon 
Etruscans, Sardinians, Sicilians, Lycians, and Achteans. This account 
makes it e.xtremely probable that these allies had a certain athnitv with each other, 
and that, therefore, these Sicilians worshipped the same gods as the Achmans and 
