What did Aeschylus do in Gela over the last three years of his life? Which plays did he compose for performance in that city? How did the legendary tale of his death come about? How was he regarded after death both in Gela and in Athens? This book is the result of investigation set in motion by such curiosity. In the absence of ready-made evidence, the author has adopted an integrated, i.e. multidisciplinary, approach which makes use of literary texts no less than historical, archaeological, epigraphical, and numismatic data. The speculative element inevitably involved in such a pursuit is counterbalanced by the broad scope of this investigation, which ranges from Rhodian identity to Siceliot politics, colonial myth-making,Tyrrhenian affairs, Adriatic trade, amber import, digestive habits of herons, diffusion of urinals, invention of the cottabos, Geloan turtle-shaped clay vessels, etc.