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Sicily from Aeneas to Augustus : new approaches in archaeology and history /

Sicily occupies a crucial position in the Mediterranean world. It is at the heart of many cross-currents of trade, people, and ideology that flowed unceasingly through the ancient period. The island was home to many people, most of them not native to it: Phoenicians, Greeks, and then Romans settled...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Smith, Christopher John, 1965- (Editor), Serrati, John (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2000]
Series:New perspectives on the ancient world ; 1.
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Table of Contents:
  • Sicily from pre-Greek times to the fourth century / John Serrati
  • Indigenous society between the ninth and sixth centuries BC: territorial, urban and social evolution / Robert Leighton
  • Wine wares in protohistoric eastern Sicily / Tamar Hodos
  • Greeks bearing gifts: religious relationships between Sicily and Greece in the archaic period / Gillian Shepherd
  • Coin types and identity: Greek cities in Sicily / N.K. Rutter
  • Sicily in the Athenian imagination: Thucydides and the Persian Wars / Thomas Harrison
  • The tyrant's myth / Sian Lewis
  • The coming of the Romans: Sicily from the fourth to the first century BC / John Serrati
  • Garrisons and grain: Sicily between the Punic Wars / John Serrati
  • Ciceronian Sicily: an archaeological perspective / R.J.A. Wilson
  • Between Greece and Italy: an external perspective on culture in Roman Sicily / Kathryn Lomas
  • The charm of the Siren: the place of classical Sicily in historiography / Giovanna Ceserani.