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      ArchaeologyRoman HistoryLate Antique and Byzantine StudiesEpigraphy (Archaeology)
Missione Archeologica Unibo ad Agrigento 6 giugno alle ore 9:28 · Field School 2018 - Hellenistic painting The Archaeological and Landscape Park “Valley of the Temples” of Agrigento, in collaboration with the University of Bologna,... more
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      ArchaeologyClassical ArchaeologyArchitectureArchitectural History
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      Slave Revolts (Roman history)Diodorus SiculusGreek SicilyRoman Sicily
Offuscata dal contrasto con gli splendori dell’età greca, l’epoca romana in Sicilia è apparsa per secoli una lunga parentesi di decadimento. Attraverso la testimonianza delle fonti antiche – testi scritti, ma anche monumenti, epigrafi,... more
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      Roman HistoryRoman SicilyAncient SicilyLate Roman Sicily
Cicero's speeches and essays-especially the Verrines-were widely read in France and England during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, when they were used in public debates about the fate of art in wartime. The early... more
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      HistoryCultural HeritageCiceroRoman Sicily
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      ArchaeologyLandscape ArchaeologyRoman RepublicCicero
Leidwanger, J. and E.S. Greene, 2017. "The Marzamemi Shipwreck Excavation: A Late Antique Church under the Sea." INA Quarterly 43.3/4: 8-13.
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      Maritime ArchaeologyLate Antique ArchaeologyArchitectural HistoryLate Antiquity
Anthropophagy in Medieval Sicily: a cultural theme between chronicle and representation. Anthropophagy is the consumption of human flesh and the most extreme form of destruction of the human body, a physical violence which is the... more
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      Intellectual HistoryCultural HistoryAnthropologyHistorical Anthropology
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      Roman roadsRoman SicilyArchaeology, Classical archaeology, Greek and Roman history, Greek Colonization (Magna Graecia and Sicily), Material Culture Studies, Funerary Archaeology
A UNESCO World Heritage Site, the 4 th-Century CE Villa Romana del Casale near Piazza Armerina, Sicily contains the largest collection of mosaics in the Roman world. However, due to accessibility issues (e.g., remote location, weak online... more
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      Serious GamesDigital ArchaeologyRoman SicilyArqueología romana / Roman archeology
Trinacria, the ancient name for Sicily extending back to Homeric Greek, has understandably been the focus of decades of archaeological research. Recognizing Sicily’s rich prehistory and pivotal role in the history of the Mediterranean,... more
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      Mediterranean Underwater ArchaeologyRoman SicilyClassics: Ancient History and ArchaeologyArchaeology of Magna Graecia and Sicily
N el Canale di Sicilia, a poco più di quaranta miglia dalle coste tunisine, emerge la sommità di un edificio vulcanico sottomarino, oggi conosciuto come isola di Pantelleria. Costituita soprattutto da rocce magmatiche, scolpita nel corso... more
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      Medieval SicilyNorman SicilySicily (History)Greek Sicily
A video on the Roman Theater of Catania (Sicily, Italy)
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      Remote SensingAerial ArchaeologyLandscape ArchaeologyMedieval Archaeology
Morgantina in central Sicily has been the site of human activity since the Neolithic era and settlement since at least the Bronze Age. However, the periods of its history best known to archaeologists are the Iron Age, Archaic,... more
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      Space and PlaceDomestic SpaceGreek SicilyRoman Sicily
A methodical search for the likely prototype of an extremely barbarous ancient coin is described. The coin's obverse shows parallel line segments projecting from an approximately rectangular solid shape. Several different obverse... more
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      NumismaticsAncient numismatics (Archaeology)Sicily (History)Carthage (Archaeology)
Chamber pots are perhaps one of the more challenging ceramic forms to identify with certainty in Roman pottery studies, despite the availability of detailed ceramic typologies. Here, we describe the analysis of mineralized concretions... more
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      ParasitologyPaleopathologyPaleoparasitologyRoman Sicily
This volume offers a near complete catalogue of all the inscriptions from the site of ancient Halaesa (province of Messina, Sicily), including c.25 unpublished inscriptions from the agora excavations.
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      Greek EpigraphyLatin EpigraphyGreek SicilyRoman Sicily
Punta Secca (in Ragusa province) on the south coast of Sicily is a late Roman and early Byzantine village, partly excavated in the 1960s and 1970s and identified, not altogether convincingly, as the Kaukana of the ancient sources, where... more
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      Classical ArchaeologyFunerary ArchaeologyByzantine StudiesByzantine Archaeology
Chowaniec R., Fitula M., Recenti scavi ad Akrai (Palazzolo Acreide, Sr), ARCHAEOLOGIAE Research by Foreign Missions in Italy XIII.1-2, 2015 (2017), p. 47-68
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      ArchaeologyClassical ArchaeologyRoman HistoryLandscape Archaeology
Mount Alburchia (969,8 m high), a well recognizable relief in the southern sourroundings of the town of Gangi, was probably inhabited from archaic to the Late Antique (IV-V AD). To this later settlement are referred the stone walls and... more
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      ArchaeologyClassical ArchaeologyLandscape ArchaeologyGreek Archaeology
The human settlement of the Pelagie Islands is marked by discontinuity from the prehistory to the modern era. The location of the islands in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea gives them a strategic relevance as a landing point along... more
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      ArchaeologyPottery (Archaeology)Late Antique ArchaeologyByzantine Archaeology
LA SCOPERTA Nell'estate 2009, a c. 500 m a nord-est della costa di Acireale, ai confini tra i comuni di Aci Castello e Acireale (Catania), nello spec-chio di mare antistante Capo Mulini (figura 1), Giancarlo Camaggi e Giuseppe Tomasello... more
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      Digital Photogrammetry applied to ArchaeologyNautical ArchaeologyAmphorae (Archaeology)Roman Sicily
On the footsteps of ancient suphur mines, in the landscape around Agrigento, it is possible to know a piece of a railway between Favara and Naro. This train had to give to owners of the mines the opportunity of quickly transport the... more
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      Public ArchaeologyRoman Sicily
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      Seleucid EmpireGreek SicilyRoman SicilySeleucid kingdom
The battle of Naulochus (36 B.C.) gave Octavian control over Sicily. In the following years the cities of the island were submitted to a political strategy characterized not only by an attitude of domination and conquest, but also by the... more
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      Roman HistoryRoman provincial administrationAugustan PrincipateRoman Sicily
THE UFFICIO SCAVI ARCHEOLOGICI OF CATANIA. FROM AN UNPUBLISHED FORMA URBIS TO THE RECONSTRUCTION OF A ROMAN THEATER - Born from a previous custody service of ancient monuments, between 1958 and 1987 the Ufficio Scavi Archeologici, which... more
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      ArchaeologyGreek SicilyRoman SicilyHistory of Archaeology
What happens to art in time of war? Who should own art, and what is its appropriate context? Should the victorious ever allow the defeated to keep their art? These questions were posed by Cicero in speeches he gave in 70 BCE, when he... more
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      Cultural HeritageCiceroRoman SicilyLooting Art
I Monti Sicani, situati tra Agrigento e Palermo, erano in gran parte sconosciuti dal punto di vista archeologico. Il survey, effettuato su 274 km², ha fornito un nuovo e ricco quadro delle strutture insediative, presenti nell’area tra... more
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      Medieval SicilyNorman SicilySicily (History)Greek Sicily
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      HistoryAncient HistoryArchaeologyClassical Archaeology
La storia della Sicilia in età imperiale è stata spesso considerata una storia “marginale”: quella di una provincia che, dopo aver vissuto un passato di grande splendore caratterizzato dall’autonomia politica, diviene parte integrante del... more
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      Ancient Topography (Archaeology)Greek SicilyRoman SicilyAncient Sicily
I pagamenti possono essere effettuati tramite versamento su c.c.p. n. 17154550 o tramite carta di credito (American Express, Visa, Eurocard, Mastercard
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      Medieval SicilyUrban archaeologyLate Roman ArchaeologyRoman Sicily
Il volume racconta il monumento nei suoi dettagli, dalle origini greche alla sua trasformazione nel quartiere catanese chiamato “Grotte”, fino alla sua riscoperta nella metà del ‘700 e alla progressiva liberazione dalle case che nel tempo... more
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      ArchaeologyGreek LiteratureRoman HistoryGreek Tragedy
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      Roman HistoryRoman LawCiceroHistory of Collections
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      Landscape ArchaeologySicily (History)Sacred Landscape (Archaeology)Greek Sicily
Oggetto della mia comunicazione è la categoria di toponimi forse più comune e nota dell'Italia peninsulare: i prediali latini (o romani, se si vuole porre l'accento sul contesto storico entro cui si iscrive il fenomeno linguistico) in... more
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      Landscape ArchaeologyToponymyRoman SicilyAncient Sicily
Sulfur was used in several fields: military, tanning, wool’s disinfection and many other activities. Nevertheless, the largest quantity of sulfur was definitely used in agriculture, particularly in viticulture. Sulfur was used to contrast... more
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      Greek LanguageSociolinguisticsLatin Language and LiteratureRoman Sicily
Starting from an analysis of Verres' early cursus honorum, the paper focuses mainly on his role as propraetor and governor of Sicily between 73 and 71BC. There, when he was in charge, according to Cicero's In Verrem, he committed the most... more
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      Ancient HistoryClassicsRoman HistoryRoman Law
This examination of C. Duilius (consul in 260 BCE) and his achievements consists of a series of linked hypotheses, each suggested by direct evidence for Duilius' activities and contextualized by near-contemporary precedents (wherever... more
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      Ancient HistoryMaritime ArchaeologyLatin LiteratureRoman History
Conca d’oro è il nome della fertile piana, compresa tra mare e monti, che circonda la città di Palermo per una estensione di ca. 100 km2, celebrata per la sua feracità sin dalla antichità classica. Il presente studio intende delineare la... more
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      Environmental ScienceMedieval HistoryEtymologyMedieval Studies
Introduzione alla carta archeologica di Tindari (Tyndaris) con una rassegna completa di tutte le fonti utilizzate
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      Ancient HistoryArchaeologyClassicsGreek History
ANCIENT CATANIA. NEW PERSPECTIVES OF RESEARCH is a miscellany of contributions written by scholars who discussed this theme in various ways and from different perspectives. In addition to traditional archaeological reports, outlining the... more
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      ArchaeologyClassical ArchaeologyPrehistoric ArchaeologyUrbanism (Archaeology)
The present research paper aims to introduce and discuss the special issue dedicated to The Sicilian Questions. Thanks to the increase in studies and research there seems to be an urgent need today, more than ever, to bring together all... more
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      ArchaeologyArt HistoryArchitectureMaterial Culture Studies
Sundials in Roman and Byzantine Mosaics (1st – 9th Century AD). A scientific monograph. The sundials on ancient mosaics have not been the subject of scientific studies so far. The author has gathered together in this publication the... more
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      Classical ArchaeologyNear Eastern ArchaeologyMaterials ScienceClassics
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      ArchaeologyClassical ArchaeologyGreek LiteratureGreek Tragedy