Sicily from Aeneas to Augustus : : New Approaches in Archaeology and History / / Christopher J. Smith, John Serrati.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Smith, Christopher J.,; Serrati, John,
• MitwirkendeR: Ceserani, Giovanna,; Harrison, Thomas,; Hodos, Tamar,; Leighton, Robert,; Lewis, Sian,; Lomas, Kathryn,; Rutter, N. K.,; Serrati, John,; Shepherd, Gillian,; Smith, Christopher,; Wilson, R. J. A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: New Perspectives on the Ancient World : NPAW
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (242 p.) :; 10 maps and diagrams, 20 half-tone illustrations

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- List of contributors -- List of abbreviations -- List of figures -- 1. Introduction -- Part I. Sicily and colonisation -- 2. Sicily from pre-Greek times to the fourth century -- 3. Indigenous society between the ninth and sixth centuries bc: territorial, urban and social evolution -- 4. Wine wares in protohistoric eastern Sicily -- 5. Greeks bearing gifts: religious relationships between Sicily and Greece in the archaic period -- Part II. Greek settlement in Sicily -- 6. Coin types and identity: Greek cities in Sicily -- 7. Sicily in the Athenian imagination: Thucydides and the Persian Wars -- 8. The tyrant’s myth -- 9. The coming of the Romans: Sicily from the fourth to the first century bc -- 10. Garrisons and grain: Sicily between the Punic Wars -- 11. Ciceronian Sicily: an archaeological perspective -- 12. Between Greece and Italy: an external perspective on culture in Roman Sicily -- 13. The charm of the Siren: the place of classical Sicily in historiography -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index