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Ancient Greek migrants in Sicily produced societies and economies
that both paralleled and differed from their homeland. Since the
nineteenth century explanations for these similarities and
differences have been heavily debated, with attention focusing in
particular on the roles played on this frontier by locals and
immigrants in Greek Sicily's remarkable cultural efflorescence.
Polarized positions have resulted. On one side, scholars have
viewed the ancient Greeks as one of a long line of incomers whom
Sicily and its inhabitants shape. On the other side, the ancient
Greeks have been viewed in a hierarchical manner with the Sicilian
Greeks acting as the source of innovation and achievement in
shaping their Sicily, while at the same being lesser to homeland
Greece, the center of their world. Neither of these two extremes is
completely satisfactory. What is lacking in this debate is a basic
work on social and economic history that gathers the historical and
archaeological evidence and deploys it to test the various
historical models proposed over the past two hundred years. This
book represents the first ever such systematic and comprehensive
endeavor. It adopts a broadly based 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 right from the start, their
relationship was not one of center and periphery or "colonial" 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 with developments in Greece and brings
greater clarity to the parts played by locals and immigrants in
ancient Sicily's impressive achievements.
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