Sicily: Art and Invention between Greece and Rome

$60.00 at The Getty Museum.

Edited by Claire L. Lyons, Michael Bennett, and Clemente Marconi Ancient Sicily, a prosperous island at the crossroads of the Mediterranean, occupied a pivotal place between Greece, North Africa, and the Italian peninsula. In the late eighth century BCE, émigrés from the Greek mainland founded colonies along the shores of the region they knew as Sikelia, bringing with them the dialects, customs, and religious practices of their homelands. Dearest of all lands to Demeter, goddess of the harvest, Sicily grew…