Shipwrecks & Lost Worlds - Akragas: Sicily's ancient metropolis of grand temples

Founded around 580 BCE by Greek colonists, Akragas flourished on Sicily's southern coast as an economic and cultural power of Magna Graecia. The birthplace of the philosopher Empedocles, it was famous for its great wealth. The ancient writer Plato observed that its residents lived as if they would die tomorrow, yet built as if they would live forever. Although destroyed by Carthaginians in 406 BCE and later rebuilt, its monumental Doric temples still stand today in the archaeological area known as the Valle dei Templi.

Source: Wikipedia