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- 750 Naxos first Greek colony in
Sicily
- founded by
Chalcis
and
Ionians
- destroyed by
Hieron
of Syracuse 476
- inhabitants exiled to
Leontini
along with Catanians
- 466 exiles
return
- allied with
Athens
from 427
- archaeological remains: sacred
precinct of Aphrodite; temples; city
walls
- coinage consistently shows
Dionysus and grapes
- left: reverse of drachma of
Naxos: grape bunch, NAXION
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