This volume provides a chronological account of the island's history, interwoven with discussions of Sicilian identity, to show Sicily as a centre of affairs within the context of a fundamentally regional ancient world.
"Smith's project reconfigures the understanding of public space as a site for symbolic contestation of social and political control by investigating historical moments of participatory vernacular dance. Smith focuses extensively on public venues, such as the street, dance hall, …
"Augustus' Memoirs", written probably in the mid 20s BC, might have been one of the most revealing texts of Roman history - had they survived. Far longer than his surviving Res Gestae, the Memoirs seem to date from a period at which the wounds of Rome's civil wars were fresh, an…
Augustus' 'Memoirs', written probably in the mid 20s BC, might have been one of the most revealing texts of Roman history - had they survived. In this comprehensive study of the subject, a cast of internationally-respected scholars reconstructs aspects of the work, its important…
Augustus' "Memoirs," written probably in the mid 20s B.C., might have been one of the most revealing texts of Roman history--had they survived. In this comprehensive study of the subject, a cast of internationally-respected scholars reconstructs aspects of the work, its importan…
