Format: Paperback
Pages: 400
ISBN: 9781789253566
Pub Date: 01 Apr 2020
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w and colour
Description:
The island of Sicily was a highly contested area throughout much of its history. Among the first to exert strong influence on its political, cultural, infrastructural, and demographic developments were the two major decentralized civilizations of the first millennium BCE: the Phoenicians and the Greeks. While trade and cultural exchange preceded their permanent presence, it was the colonizing movement that brought territorial competition and political power struggles on the island to a new level.