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Sicily has been the fulcrum of the Mediterranean throughout
history. The island's central geographical position and its status
as ancient Rome's first overseas province make it key to
understanding the development of the Roman Empire. Yet Sicily's
crucial role in the empire has been largely overlooked by scholars
of classical antiquity, apart from a small number of specialists in
its archaeology and material culture. Urbanism and Empire in Roman
Sicily offers the first comprehensive English-language overview of
the history and archaeology of Roman Sicily since R. J. A. Wilson's
Sicily under the Roman Empire (1990). Laura Pfuntner traces the
development of cities and settlement networks in Sicily in order to
understand the island's political, economic, social, and cultural
role in Rome's evolving Mediterranean hegemony. She identifies and
examines three main processes traceable in the archaeological
record of settlement in Roman Sicily: urban disintegration, urban
adaptation, and the development of alternatives to urban
settlement. By expanding the scope of research on Roman Sicily
beyond the bounds of the island itself, through comparative
analysis of the settlement landscapes of Greece and southern Italy,
and by utilizing exciting evidence from recent excavations and
surveys, Pfuntner establishes a new empirical foundation for
research on Roman Sicily and demonstrates the necessity of
including Sicily in broader historical and archaeological studies
of the Roman Empire.
When does imitation of an author morph into masquerade? Although
the Roman writer Ovid died in the first century CE, many new Latin
poems were ascribed to him from the sixth until the fifteenth
century. Like the Appendix Vergiliana, these verses reflect
different understandings of an admired Classical poet and expand
his legacy throughout the Middle Ages. The works of the "medieval
Ovid" mirror the dazzling variety of their original. The Appendix
Ovidiana includes narrative poetry that recounts the adventures of
both real and imaginary creatures, erotic poetry that wrestles with
powerful desires and sexual violence, and religious poetry
that-despite the historical Ovid's paganism-envisions the birth,
death, and resurrection of Christ. This is the first comprehensive
collection and English translation of these pseudonymous medieval
Latin poems.
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