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Archaic and Classical Greek Sicily - A Social and Economic History (Paperback)
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Archaic and Classical Greek Sicily - A Social and Economic History (Paperback)
Series: Greeks Overseas
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Ancient Greek migrants in Sicily produced societies and economies
that both paralleled and differed from their homeland. Explanations
for these similarities and differences have been hotly debated. On
the one hand, some scholars have viewed the ancient Greeks as one
in a long line of migrants who were shaped by Sicily and its
inhabitants. On the other hand, other scholars have argued that the
Greeks acted as the main source of innovation and achievement in
the culture of ancient Sicily, a culture that was still removed
from that of mainland Greece. Neither of these positions is
completely satisfactory. What is lacking in this debate is a basic
framework for understanding ancient Sicily's social and economic
history. Archaic and Classical Greek Sicily represents the first
ever systematic and comprehensive attempt to synthesize the
historical and archaeological evidence, and to deploy it to test
the various historical models proposed over the past two centuries.
It adopts an interdisciplinary approach that combines classical and
prehistoric studies, texts and material culture, and a variety of
methods and theories to put the history of Greek Sicily on a
completely new footing. While Sicily and Greece had conjoined
histories from the start, their relationship was not one of
periphery and center or of colony and state in any sense, but of an
interdependent and mutually enriching diaspora. At the same time,
local conditions and peoples, including Phoenician migrants, also
shaped the evolution of Sicilian Greek societies and economies.
This book reveals and explains the similarities and differences
between developments in Greek Sicily and the mainland, and brings
greater clarity to the parts played by locals and immigrants in
ancient Sicily's impressive achievements.
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