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An island in the harbor of the city of Syracuse on the island of Sicily.
The nymph, Arethusa, was transformed into a spring on Ortygia by Artemis so that the nymph could escape the unwanted advances of the god of the river Alpheus; in The Odyssey (book 15, line 404) Ortygia is said to be the turning place of the Sun; Ortygia was the location of the citadel of Dionysius I when he took complete control of the government of Syracuse, circa 404-3 BCE.
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