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The contents

 

Preface 

Mediterranean 

 

Part One. The dawn of time. The era of rocken gravings, deities and heroes

I. Ancient sea routes 

II. What the myths tell us in their millennia-old poetic song 

III. Three pre-Greek and pre-Carthaginian sanctuaries Aphrodite, Demeter, Palici 

 

Part Two. The dawn of History. On the thres holdof prehistory and history

IV. Which peoples did the Carthaginians and Greeks encounter upon their arrival on the island: Sicanians, Sicels, Elymians 

V. The age of Carthaginian colonisation. 8th-6th centuries 

VI. The age of Greek colonisation. 8th-6th centuries 

 

Part Three. The early historical age. The 5th century: brief but golden. A young and creative world of many tongues 

VII. Siceliot Tyrants as allies in crucial years Akragas and Syracuse, 488-472

VIII. Pindar and the young Empedocles. Akragas in the first half of the 5th century

IX. At the court of Hiero. Pindar, Simonides, Aeschylus and many others. The birth of comedy

X. Etna and the poets. Katane/Aitna. Aeschylus’s Women of Aetna and Stesichorus’s octagon

XI. Democratic interlude. Economic growth and the birth of rhetoric. 466-405

 

Part Four. Between Athens and Carthage. A new role for Syracuse and for carthaginian epikrateia 

XII. Late 5th century: Sicily under threat. Two successive expeditions from the east (Athenians, 415) and from the south (Carthaginians, 409)

XIII. Dionysius I. Historians, poets and philosophers at his court

XIV. Collapse and Rebirth: Dionysius II and Timoleon. 367–317

 

Part Five. Sicily in the Hellenistic Age. Syracuse, Carthage, Alexandria in Egypt, Rome

XV. The ‘reign’ of Agathocles from tyrant to basileus (317-289)  

XVI. Rome, Sicily and Carthage: The First Punic War and Basileus Hiero II

 

Part Six.Sicily under the Roman Republic. The first Province

XVII. The Second Punic War and the Roman Siege of Syracuse     

XVIII. A Province of the Roman Republic. 210-44. From the End of the Second Punic War to the Age of Caesar

 

Appendices

1. Polybius and the underlying reason for events  

2. On the sources 

3. The Carthaginian Question  

4. Cover Images  

 

Index of sources and modern studies 

 

Afterword, Bologna, 24 April 2026