Research Catalog

Title

Tradition and innovation : Sicily between Hellenism and Rome / Efrem Zambon.

Author

Zambon, Efrem

Publication

Stuttgart : Franz Steiner Verlag, 2008.

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Details

Description

326 p.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

• Historia. Einzelschriften, 0341-0056 ; Heft 205
• Geschichte

Uniform Title

• Historia (Wiesbaden, Germany). Einzelschriften Heft 205.
• Geschichte (Franz Steiner Verlag)

Alternative Title

Sicily between Hellenism and Rome

Subject

• Pyrrhus, King of Epirus, 318 B.C.-272 B.C
• To 800
• Punic War, 1st, 264 B.C.-241 B.C
• Sicily (Italy) > History > To 800
• Greece > Colonies > Italy > Sicily
• Rome > History > Republic, 510 B.C.-30 B.C

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Padua.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Ch. 1. Political evolution and historical events In the Greek city-states of Sicily from Agathocles' death to Pyrrhus' arrival (289-278 BC) -- 1.1. "The king is dead": civil struggles and institutional changes in Syracuse, between a new democracy and further autocratic desires (289-287 BC) -- 1.2. Mercenaries, marauders and settlers: the foundation of the Mamertine State in Messina (287 BC) -- 1.3. Minor tyrants of eastern Sicily between Carthage and Syracuse: aims of power or instincts of self-preservation? -- 1.4. Phintias and the revival of Agrigentum: history of a tyrant who wanted to look like an Hellenistic monarch (289/288-280? BC) -- 1.5. Hicetas' autocratic rule in Syracuse: from victory to decline (285-279 BC) -- 1.6. "Another king will save us": the last civil strife in Syracuse and the appeals to Pyrrhus (279-278 BC) -- 1.7. The arrival of the Syracusan ambassadors and the first steps of Pyrrhus' Sicilian expedition (summer-autumn 279 BC) -- 1.8. The Carthaginians on the international scene. The Punic diplomacy between Pyrrhus and Rome, and the renewal of the Romano-Punic alliance (autumn 279-spring 278 BC) -- 1.9. Some notes about the Romano-Carthaginian treaty: matters of understanding -- 1.10. A passage of Diodorus and the carrying out of the treaty; quick cooperation in Rhegium (spring 278 BC) -- Ch. 2. Pyrrhus and the Greeks of Sicily: military events, political meanings and ideological implications -- 2.1. Preliminary notes. The situation in Sicily and Pyrrhus' last arrangements for the expedition -- 2.2. The situation in Magna Graecia. Some more enlightenments about the events in Rhegium -- 2.3. The first stage of the Sicilian adventure: from Taras to Syracuse (summer/autumn 278 BC) -- 2.4. The political title of Pyrrhus in Sicily: an example of Hellenistic kingship? -- 2.5. Pyrrhus' coinage in Sicily: Greek propaganda, ideological inferences and economic innovations -- 2.6. The war-campaign of 277 BC. First steps of glory in southern Sicily: traces of Pyrrhus at Heraclea Minoa and Azones, between historical and archaeological evidence -- 2.7. The war-campaign of 277 BC. From Selinous to Eryx; Pyrrhus' march through the Elymian territories -- 2.8. The conquest of Panormus and the Punic fortresses of the Conca d'Oro -- 2.9. First step to defeat: the siege of Lilybaeum (autumn 277 BC) -- 2.10. "The king has turned to be a tyrant!". The last months of Pyrrhus in Sicily and the rebellion of the Greeks (spring 276 BC) -- Ch. 3. The first Punic war: Greeks and natives of Sicily among Hellenistic kingship, old masters and new conquerors -- 3.1. The first steps of Hiero II as [actual symbol not reproducible] (276/275-271 BC): civil struggles and autocracy in the fate of Syracuse -- 3.2. "Getting rid from those barbarians". Hiero's warfares against the Mamertines (270-269 BC) and the alliances with the Greek city-states of eastern Sicily -- 3.3. Messina squeezed: the outbreak of the first Punic war, between diplomacy and fighting armies -- 3.4. Between resistance and deditiones: that is, how the Greek communities of eastern Sicily approached the Romans -- 3.5. "Friend of Rome, lord of Syracuse, king of Sicily": the peace-treaty between Hiero and the Romans, and the new role of Syracuse within Sicily and the Mediterranean basin -- 3.6. The Greeks and the natives during the first Punic war; from the siege of Agrigentum to the first Roman mission to Africa (262-256 BC) -- 3.7. From Sicily to Africa, and the way back; Tempests, Roman shipwrecks and first Punic crushes in the [actual symbol not reproducible] (256-250 BC) -- 3.8. Lilybaeum, Eryx and Drepana: the Roman triumph and the new fate for the Greeks of Sicily (250-241 BC) -- 3.9. Romanisation or acculturation? Roman ways of approach towards the Sicilian city-states -- 3.10. Some signs of "realpolitik". Rome and the city-states of Sicily between local identity and new political perspectives. The case-study of the Elymian cities -- Index of classical references.

ISBN

9783515091947 (hd.bd.)

OCLC

• 300276605
• SCSB-12272852

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library