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Sicily – Art and Invention Between Greece and Rome
. Lyons
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Description for Sicily – Art and Invention Between Greece and Rome
Hardback. Demonstrates Sicily's essential role in the development of the ancient Mediterranean world. This title focuses on the watershed period between 480 BC and the Roman conquest of Syracuse in 212 BC - a time of great social and political ferment. Num Pages: 288 pages, 144 full-colour, 23 b&w, & 1 map. BIC Classification: ACG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 287 x 250 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1802.
This is a richly illustrated volume that demonstrates Sicily's essential role in the development of the ancient Mediterranean world. Ancient Sicily, a prosperous island at the crossroads of the Mediterranean, occupied a pivotal place in the region. In the late 8th Century B.C., emigres from the Greek mainland founded colonies along the shores of the region now known as Sicily. Over time, the area grew wealthy from its agricultural abundance, and colonial settlements emerged as formidable metropolises. Sicily is the only English-language book that focuses on the watershed period between 480 B.C. and the Roman conquest of Syracuse in 212 ... Read more
This is a richly illustrated volume that demonstrates Sicily's essential role in the development of the ancient Mediterranean world. Ancient Sicily, a prosperous island at the crossroads of the Mediterranean, occupied a pivotal place in the region. In the late 8th Century B.C., emigres from the Greek mainland founded colonies along the shores of the region now known as Sicily. Over time, the area grew wealthy from its agricultural abundance, and colonial settlements emerged as formidable metropolises. Sicily is the only English-language book that focuses on the watershed period between 480 B.C. and the Roman conquest of Syracuse in 212 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Getty Trust Publications United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Los Angeles, United States
ISBN
9781606061336
SKU
V9781606061336
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Ref
99-50
About . Lyons
Claire Lyons is acting senior curator of antiquities at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Michael Bennett is the Cleveland Museum of Art's first curator of Greek & Roman Art. Clemente Marconi is James R. McCredie Professor in the History of Greek Art and Archaeology at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts.
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