HISTORY OF ANCIENT SICILY

L-ANT/03 - 6 CFU - 2° Semester

Teaching Staff

CRISTINA SORACI

Detailed Course Content

Fonts about the history of ancient Sicily; greek settlements in Sicily; Sicilian tyrants; the democratical interlude; Dionysius the Elder and his successors; Timoleon in Sicily; Agathocles’ reign; Sicily during the Punic wars; the first Roman province; Sicily as Rome’s granary; Sicily in the second century B.C.; Verres’ gouvernment; Sicily in the first century B.C.; Sextus Pompey, Octavian and Sicily; Sicily in the Augustan age; Roman emperors and Sicily; Sicilian latifundia under the Roman empire; Sicily from the fourth to the sixth century A.D.

Textbook Information

General course: Sicily from the Archaic age to the Roman age

L. Braccesi- G. Millino, La Sicilia greca, Carocci, Roma 20103.

C. Soraci, La Sicilia romana, in corso di stampa.

 

In-depth study: Roman villas in Sicily

AA.VV., Sicilia romana e bizantina, a cura di C. Quartarone, Palermo 2006, pp. 66-78, 210-211, 238-244, 267-268, 330-336.

 

Second cycle degree’s students who chose this subject must study also:

  1. N. Luraghi, Tirannidi arcaiche in Sicilia e Magna Grecia. Da Panezio di Leontini alla caduta dei Dinomenidi, Firenze 1994, pp. 11-58 e 231-373 ;
  2. E. Galvagno, Demokratía a Siracusa?, «ASS», 47, 2012, pp. 15-46;
  3. G. Manganaro, La provincia romana, in Storia della Sicilia, 2, Napoli 1979, 411-461;

R.J.A. Wilson, La Sicilia, in Storia di Roma, III, 2, Torino 1993, pp. 279-298.



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