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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent unused condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Sicily: Art and Invention between Greece and Rome focuses on the watershed period between the victory over the Carthagin- ians at the Battle of Himera in 480 B.C. and the Roman conquest of Syracuse in 212 B.C. a time of great social and politi cal ferment. Intended as a sourcebook for Classical and Hellenistic Sicily this anthology features current research by more than forty internationally renowned scholars. The essays investigate Sicily not simply as a destination of adventurers and settlers but as a catalyst that shaped Greek culture at its peak and transmit- ted Hellenism to Rome. In the opulent courts of the Sicilian city-states artists poets and scien- tists attained levels of refinement and ingenuity rivaling even surpassing those of “old Greece.” Innovation in architecture engineering coinage philosophy and literature flourished in mixed cultural communities which offered room for experimentation and gave birth to such influential figures as the philosopher Empedokles the poet Theokritos and the mathematician Archumedes. (MP)