Known from ancient authors such as Herodotus, Thucydides, and Plato, and more than
2,500 inscriptions, proxeny (a form of public guest-friendship) is the best attested interstate …

This book offers an overview of the archaeological and structural evidence for one of the
most vital periods of Italian history, spanning the late Roman and early medieval periods …

This paper examines the evidence for military activity in the Republican provincia of Sicily
from the Punic Wars to the Civil Wars, and the implications of this for our understanding of …

Sicily was an island province with an identity unlike that of any other in the western Roman
Empire. Its largely Greek character at the time of Augustus was modified by Roman culture …

Ancient inscriptions represent an idiosyncratic category of evidence on past societies,
straddling the divide between textual accounts and archaeological artefacts. Close-reading …

Within the field of ancient bilingualism, Sicily represents a unique terrain for analysis as a
result of its incredibly rich linguistic history, in which'colonial'languages belonging to …

The study of ancient reading and writing practices must begin with inscriptions. This chapter
charts the recent debates about the concept of literacy in the Roman world. Setting out from …

Many histories of economic growth over the longue durée usually start around AD 1000,
tracing a gradual growth in the early middle ages with the weakening of feudalism and the …

Sicily has a vibrant and individual epigraphic culture from the Archaic period onwards. Using
the data available from the I. Sicily project, this paper surveys the epigraphic culture of the …

This book investigates the epigraphic habit of the Eastern Mediterranean in antiquity, from
the inception of alphabetic writing to the seventh c. CE, aiming to identify whether there was …