| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 241 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
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New perspectives on the ancient world ; 1
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New perspectives on the ancient world ; 1.
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| Note |
"This volume reflects the proceedings of a conference held in St. Andrews in June 1998"--Page vii. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (210-234) and index. |
| 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. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Summary |
This volume provides a chronological account of the island's history, interwoven with discussions of Sicilian identity, to show Sicily as a centre of affairs within the context of a fundamentally regional ancient world. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Sicily (Italy) -- History -- To 800 -- Congresses.
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Sicily (Italy) -- Antiquities -- Congresses.
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Sicily (Italy) -- History -- To 800. |
| Chronological Term |
To 800 |
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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History.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Smith, Christopher John, 1965-
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Serrati, John.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sicily from Aeneas to Augustus. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2000 0748613676 (DLC) 2001347041 (OCoLC)49011565 |
| ISBN |
0585441928 (electronic book) |
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9780585441924 (electronic book) |
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9780748679577 (electronic book) |
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074867957X (electronic book) |
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9780748650996 (ebook) |
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0748650997 (ebook) |
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0748613676 |
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9780748613670 |
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0748613668 (paperback) |
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9780748613663 (paperback) |
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