Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. List of contributors viii
5. List of abbreviations ix
6. List of figures xiii
7. 1. Introduction 1
8. Part I. Sicily and colonisation
9. 2. Sicily from pre-Greek times to the fourth century 7
10. 3. Indigenous society between the ninth and sixth centuries bc: territorial, urban and social evolution 15
11. 4. Wine wares in protohistoric eastern Sicily 41
12. 5. Greeks bearing gifts: religious relationships between Sicily and Greece in the archaic period 55
13. Part II. Greek settlement in Sicily
14. 6. Coin types and identity: Greek cities in Sicily 71
15. 7. Sicily in the Athenian imagination: Thucydides and the Persian Wars 84
16. 8. The tyrant’s myth 97
17. 9. The coming of the Romans: Sicily from the fourth to the first century bc 109
18. 10. Garrisons and grain: Sicily between the Punic Wars 115
19. 11. Ciceronian Sicily: an archaeological perspective 134
20. 12. Between Greece and Italy: an external perspective on culture in Roman Sicily 161
21. 13. The charm of the Siren: the place of classical Sicily in historiography 174
22. Notes 194
23. Bibliography 210
24. Index 235