Serrati john editor (1 Ergebnisse)
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press, 2000
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Hardcover. Zustand: VG. Dust jacket condition: No Jacket. Very nice clean copy. Text free of highlighting and writing. Tightly bound. 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 isla…nd 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 region 242 pages. Sicily (Italy)--History--To 800--Congresses, Sicily (Italy)--Antiquities--Congresses.
