Sicily from Aeneas to Augustus: New Approaches in Archaeology and History

Christopher J. Smith; John Serrati

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2000

Sicily from Aeneas to Augustus

New Approaches in Archaeology and History

Christopher J. Smith and John Serrati

In the series New Perspectives on the Ancient World

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474472708

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About this book

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 there, and sought ways of expressing their hybrid identities. The Sicilians, no less than their invaders, were concerned with their image and their contribution to the age. In this volume ideas of identity, image and acculturation are the central themes. The contributions combine detailed investigation of the archaeological finds in which the island abounds, with an examination of the understudied tradition of history and literature on or about the island. The book provides a chronological account of the island's history, interwoven with a series of discussions of Sicilian identity: to show Sicily as a centre of affairs from the Iron Age to the Augustan Empire within the context of a fundamentally regional ancient world.

The book includes a chronology and guides for further reading.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface Christopher Smith and John Serrati Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
List of contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
List of abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
List of figures Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
1. Introduction Christopher Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. Sicily and colonisation
2. Sicily from pre-Greek times to the fourth century John Serrati Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
3. Indigenous society between the ninth and sixth centuries bc: territorial, urban and social evolution Robert Leighton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
4. Wine wares in protohistoric eastern Sicily Tamar Hodos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
5. Greeks bearing gifts: religious relationships between Sicily and Greece in the archaic period Gillian Shepherd Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
Part II. Greek settlement in Sicily
6. Coin types and identity: Greek cities in Sicily N. K. Rutter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
7. Sicily in the Athenian imagination: Thucydides and the Persian Wars Thomas Harrison Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	84
8. The tyrant’s myth Sian Lewis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
9. The coming of the Romans: Sicily from the fourth to the first century bc John Serrati Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
10. Garrisons and grain: Sicily between the Punic Wars John Serrati Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
11. Ciceronian Sicily: an archaeological perspective R. J. A. Wilson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
12. Between Greece and Italy: an external perspective on culture in Roman Sicily Kathryn Lomas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
13. The charm of the Siren: the place of classical Sicily in historiography Giovanna Ceserani Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	174
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	194
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	210
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 242
Illustrations
- Other: 10 maps and diagrams, 20 half-tone illustrations
Keywords: Classics & Ancient History

eBook

Published: December 20, 2000
ISBN: 9781474472708