Roman Sicily
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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
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
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
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
A video on the Roman Theater of Catania (Sicily, Italy)
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
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
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
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catalogue of all the inscriptions from the site of ancient Halaesa (province of Messina, Sicily), including c.25 unpublished inscriptions from the agora excavations.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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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
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
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
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
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
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
Introduzione alla carta archeologica di Tindari (Tyndaris) con una rassegna completa di tutte le fonti utilizzate
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
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
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