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Language and Linguistic Contact in Ancient Sicily
Within the field of ancient bilingualism, Sicily represents a unique terrain for analysis as a result of its incredibly rich linguistic history, in which 'colonial' languages …
Diodoros of Sicily: Bibliotheke Historike: Volume 1, Books 14–15: The Greek World in the Fourth Century BC from the End of the Peloponnesian War to the Death of Artaxerxes II (Mnemon)
Diodoros of Sicily (c.90–c.30 BC) spent thirty years producing an encyclopedic compendium of world history from its mythical beginnings to his own day. His is the only surviving, …
Lord William Bentinck and the British Occupation of Sicily 1811–1814
During the Napoleonic Wars, Sicily was of some tactical importance, and a British garrison was established there in 1806. For the next five years domestic and diplomatic affairs …
Oscan in Southern Italy and Sicily
In pre-Roman Italy and Sicily, dozens of languages and writing systems competed and interacted, and bilingualism was the norm. Using frameworks from epigraphy, archaeology and the …
The French in the Kingdom of Sicily, 1266–1305
Charles of Anjou's conquest of the Sicilian Regno in 1266 transformed relations between France and the kingdom of Sicily. This original study of contact and exchange in the Middle …
Timoleon and the Revival of Greek Sicily
Dispatched to Sicily in 344 BC as an elderly man at the head of a small, motley band of mercenaries, Timoleon had no experience of the island. Yet, in less than eight years …
Language and Linguistic Contact in Ancient Sicily
Within the field of ancient bilingualism, Sicily represents a unique terrain for analysis as a result of its incredibly rich linguistic history, in which 'colonial' languages …
A Ramble in Malta and Sicily, in the Autumn of 1841
In the autumn of 1841, George French Angas (1822–86) abandoned his conventional career in the City of London for a life of art, travel and zoology. Inspired by a childhood …
Sicily and the Hellenistic Mediterranean World
In Sicily and the Hellenistic Mediterranean World, D. Alex Walthall investigates the royal administration of Hieron II (r. 269-215 BCE), the Syracusan monarch who leveraged …
The Norman Kingdom of Sicily
This book is an introductory account of the kingdom of Sicily established in 1130 by Roger II, a ‘Norman’ king, and ruled by Roger, his own son and grandsons until 1194 when the …