Download or read book The Fight for Greek Sicily written by Melanie Jonasch and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The island of Sicily was a highly contested area throughout much of its history. Among the first to exert strong influence on its political, cultural, infrastructural, and demographic developments were the two major decentralized civilizations of the first millennium BCE: the Phoenicians and the Greeks. While trade and cultural exchange preceded their permanent presence, it was the colonizing movement that brought territorial competition and political power struggles on the island to a new level. The history of six centuries of colonization is replete with accounts of conflict and warfare that include cross-cultural confrontations, as well as interstate hostilities, domestic conflicts, and government violence. This book is not concerned with realities from the battlefield or questions of military strategy and tactics, but rather offers a broad collection of archaeological case studies and historical essays that analyze how political competition, strategic considerations, and violent encounters substantially affected rural and urban environments, the island’s heterogeneous communities, and their social practices. These contributions, originating from a workshop in 2018, combine expertise from the fields of archaeology, ancient history, and philology. The focus on a specific time period and the limited geographic area of Greek Sicily allows for the thorough investigation and discussion of various forms of organized societal violence and their consequences on the developments in society and landscape.

Download or read book The History of Sicily to the Athenian War written by W. Watkiss Lloyd and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1872.

Download or read book The History of Sicily from the Earliest Times written by Edward Augustus Freeman and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The History of Sicily from the Earliest Times written by E.. Freeman and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A History of Sicily written by Moses I. Finley and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The History of Sicily from the Earliest Times The Athenian and Carthaginian invasions written by Edward Augustus Freeman and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The History of Sicily from the Earliest Times written by Edward Augustus Freeman and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The History of Sicily to the Athenian War by W Watkiss Lloyd written by William Watkiss Lloyd and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The History of Sicily to the Athenian War written by William Watkiss Lloyd and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition written by Donald Kagan and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-16 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did the Peace of Nicias fail to reconcile Athens and Sparta? In the third volume of his landmark four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War, Donald Kagan examines the years between the signing of the peace treaty and the destruction of the Athenian expedition to Sicily in 413 B.C. The principal figure in the narrative is the Athenian politician and general Nicias, whose policies shaped the treaty and whose military strategies played a major role in the attack against Sicily.

Download or read book Sicily Phoenician Greek and Roman written by Edward Augustus Freeman and published by London, Unwin. This book was released on 1892 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Story of Sicily written by Edward Augustus Freeman and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Greek Cities of Sicily written by Henry C Matthews and published by . This book was released on 2020-08 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book History of Sicily to the Athenian written by W. W. Lloyd and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Theater outside Athens written by Kathryn Bosher and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-02 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together archeologists, art historians, philologists, literary scholars, political scientists, and historians to articulate the ways in which western Greek theater was distinct from that of the Greek mainland and, at the same time, to investigate how the two traditions interacted. The chapters intersect and build on each other in their pursuit of a number of shared questions and themes: the place of theater in the cultural life of Sicilian and South Italian 'colonial cities;' theater as a method of cultural self-identification; shared mythological themes in performance texts and theatrical vase-painting; and the reflection and analysis of Sicilian and South Italian theater in the work of Athenian philosophers and playwrights. Together, the essays explore central problems in the study of western Greek theater. By gathering a number of different perspectives and methods, this volume offers the first wide-ranging examination of this hitherto neglected history.

Download or read book Sicily from Aeneas to Augustus written by Christopher John Smith and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The Fall of the Athenian Empire written by Donald Kagan and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-18 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The fourth volume in Kagan's history of ancient Athens, which has been called one of the major achievements of modern historical scholarship, begins with the ill-fated Sicilian expedition of 413 B.C. and ends with the surrender of Athens to Sparta in 404 B.C. Richly documented, precise in detail, it is also extremely well-written, linking it to a tradition of historical narrative that has become rare in our time." ― Virginia Quarterly Review In the fourth and final volume of his magisterial history of the Peloponnesian War, Donald Kagan examines the period from the destruction of Athens' Sicilian expedition in September of 413 B.C. to the Athenian surrender to Sparta in the spring of 404 B.C. Through his study of this last decade of the war, Kagan evaluates the performance of the Athenian democracy as it faced its most serious challenge. At the same time, Kagan assesses Thucydides' interpretation of the reasons for Athens’ defeat and the destruction of the Athenian Empire.