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An Italian adventure It was probably about five years ago that my wife first told me there were some ancient Greek temples still surviving in Italy; she’d heard about them on the radio and was immediately intrigued. It did seem unlikely – we think of Greek temples being in Greece, and the later ancient Roman monuments being in Italy. But classical Athens was the centre of a cultural empire in the way Rome was the centre of an actual one, and left monuments all around the Mediterranean, so a coup...