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Journal articles on the topic "Sicilian influences"
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García Fernández, José. "El superestrato románico: la huella del español, del francés y del occitano en el siciliano contemporáneo." Estudios Románicos 28 (December 20, 2019): 233–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.6018/er/373971.
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Sicilia siempre ha sido un enclave disputado por múltiples pueblos que terminarían por modelar la cultura de sus habitantes. En consecuencia, el siciliano se embebió lingüísticamente de las hablas de los sucesivos pobladores de la isla, de entre los que caben destacar, entre otros, los españoles y los franceses. Atentos a esta realidad, este artículo propone un acercamiento a los influjos del castellano, francés y occitano, tres variedades romances que, en forma de superestrato semántico, han influido en la configuración lingüística del siciliano. Sirviéndonos de las voces dialectales empleadas por la palermitana Giuseppina Torregrossa en su primera novela, L’Assaggiatrice, hemos podido corroborar cómo, al igual que hicieran antaño otros especialistas, tanto el dominio iberorrománico como el galorrománico siguen siendo determinantes en la conformación de la lengua siciliana, una variante lingüística aún empleada con frecuencia en la literatura isleña pese al creciente interés social por el italiano estándar desde la unificación del país. Sicily has always been a territory under dispute by multiple peoples that eventually managed to mold the culture of the inhabitants of the island. As a result, the Sicilian language absorbed the language of the ensuing settlers, particularly Spanish and French. In view of this, this article addresses the analysis of the Spanish, French and Occitan traces, three Romance variants that, through the semantic superstratum, have had an impact on the linguistic configuration of the Sicilian language. With the focus on the dialectal lexicon used by the Palermitan writer, Giuseppina Torregrossa, in her debut novel, L’Assaggiatrice, this study confirms what previous specialized authorities on the field observed in past times: that the Ibero-Romance and Gallo-Romance influence have been, and still are, key to the shaping of the Sicilian language, a linguistic variant that is most frequently used in insular literature regardless of the growing social interest in standard Italian after the unification.
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Cazzolla Gatti, R., G. Messina, M. Ruggieri, V. Dalla Nora, and B. M. Lombardo. "Habitat and ecological diversity influences the species-area relationship and the biogeography of the Sicilian archipelago’s isopods." European Zoological Journal 85, no. 1 (January 1, 2018): 209–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/24750263.2018.1466930.
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Schimmenti, Emanuele, Enrico Viola, Cassandra Funsten, and Valeria Borsellino. "The Contribution of Geographical Certification Programs to Farm Income and Rural Economies: The Case of Pecorino Siciliano PDO." Sustainability 13, no. 4 (February 12, 2021): 1977. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13041977.
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This study attempts to measure the capacity of the EU geographical certification scheme to positively influence the price of certified products and the incomes of their producers. A comparison of the economic results of two cheese-producing dairy farm enterprises with different business strategies and locations within the Sicilian hinterlands is performed in order to determine the transformation value of each dairy’s sheep milk into pecorino cheese (with and without the Protected Designation of Origin, or PDO, certification) and the related joint products (ricotta). The economic convenience of the total transformation of sheep milk into Pecorino Siciliano PDO and ricotta is also appraised. The results suggest that producing and commercializing Pecorino Siciliano PDO is a promising strategy for differentiating and promoting dairy farm products and improving the financial performance of producers, with foreseeable positive repercussions in the socioeconomically less favored rural areas where they are located.
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DILLON, JOHN NOËL. "THE DELEGATION OF THE XVIRI TO ENNA CA. 133 BC AND THE MURDER OF TIBERIUS GRACCHUS." Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 56, no. 2 (December 1, 2013): 89–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.2013.00060.x.
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Abstract In the Verrine orations, Cicero mentions an unusual delegation of public Roman priests, members of the xviri sacris faciundis, to the Sicilian city of Enna shortly after the death of Tiberius Gracchus. Most historians have traditionally followed Cicero's lead in associating these two events, assuming that the religious mission was orchestrated by the Roman Senate in order to influence the Roman plebs in the aftermath of Gracchus' spectacular murder. An alternative interpretation makes the Sicilians the intended audience. A closer look at the evidence for the delegation, however, and consideration of Roman conceptions of religious territory make both connections unlikely. I argue instead that the delegation of priests was motivated above all by territorial religious concerns raised by recent catastrophes in the Roman province.
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Schimmenti, Emanuele, Elli Vassiliadis, and Antonino Galati. "Il ruolo delle Tecnologie Informatiche e di Comunicazione e della logistica distributiva sulla competitivitŕ del comparto ortofrutticolo siciliano." ECONOMIA AGRO-ALIMENTARE, no. 2 (November 2012): 11–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/ecag2012-002002.
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In recent years, the market globalization process has deeply altered the international competitive scene, leading, inevitably, to a revision of companies' strategies and organization structures. It is now widely accepted that Information and Communication Technology (ict) and supply chain logistics management, have an important role in increasing the competitive potential of each company and in the development of entire economic sectors. The importance of these factors for the business strategies of firms, has generated increasing research attention towards the study of their economic and social impact, concerning both the spread of modern information and communication technologies and logistics. This paper mainly proposes, through a direct survey conducted on a group of firms (production and commercial companies), working in the Sicilian fruit and vegetable sector - a strategic sector in the economic and social field for most of the region - to provide empirical evidence regarding the degree of diffusion of ict and its use, as well as on business relationships with the regional distribution logistics system, as they are two of the determinants that can influence companies' competitive potential. Through Multiple Correspondence Analysis (mca) it was possible to filter down the information from the available data and to identify two factors that describe and summarize how the surveyed firms behave. In particular, the analysis highlighted the close connection between the diffusion and use of ict and logistics distribution organization and the firms' physical and economic size. Specifically, the large-size companies, in this case represented by producer organizations and associations, have a medium-high degree of computerization and an efficient logistics organization, which allows them to interface with competitors both in the national and international market. Agricultural cooperatives and individual companies, on the other hand, though having well-developed infrastructure hardware and software, limit their use to basic functions, but above all have greater needs in terms of logistics structures, which are scantly distributed in the region, and this negatively influences the efficiency of fruit and vegetable produce distribution. In this context, the competitive potential of the fruit and vegetable sector, as regards the issues under investigation, is connected, on the one hand, to companies' recognition of the potential offered by ict and efficient logistics and, on the other, to government intervention aimed at overcoming the region's infrastructure limits which are at the heart of inefficiencies in the distribution system.
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El Hajj, Maya. "The Influence of the Arabic Language in the Sicilian Dialect and in Camilleri’s Vigatese." International Journal of Comparative Literature and Translation Studies 10, no. 1 (February 16, 2022): 6. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijclts.v.10n.1p.6.
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This paper highlights the richness associated with having several dialects within the same Italian language system, and specifically discusses the Sicilian dialect that was highly affected by Arabic. The article will also go back historically to introduce “Siqilliya,” examining the Arabic Sicilian lexicology to demonstrate syntactic constructions typically relevant to the Arabic language, and thus exposing the Sicilian Arabism. My main target is to show, through different examples, the interaction between the Sicilian and Arabic languages at the cultural, syntactic, lexicological and grammatical levels. I will also trace some terms used by Andrea Camilleri through his “Commissario Montalbano,” which have become a “modo di dire” or way of speaking that has become an integral part of the Italian language.
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Gasparo Morticelli, Maurizio, Vera Valenti, Raimondo Catalano, Attilio Sulli, Mauro Agate, Giuseppe Avellone, Cinzia Albanese, Luca Basilone, and Calogero Gugliotta. "Deep controls on foreland basin system evolution along the Sicilian fold and thrust belt." Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 186, no. 4-5 (July 1, 2015): 273–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.2113/gssgfbull.186.4-5.273.
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Abstract Neogene-Quaternary wedge-top-basins arose during the Sicilian fold and thrust belt (FTB) build-up. The infilling sedimentary successions are: i) middle-upper Miocene silicoclastics succession, accommodated on top of the accreted Sicilide and Numidian flysch nappes; ii) upper Miocene-lower Pliocene deepening-upwards sediments unconformably overlying the inner Meso-Cenozoic deep-water, Imerese and Sicanian thrust units; iii) Upper Pliocene-Quaternary coastal-open shelf deposits unconformably covering (in the outer sector of the FTB) a tectonic stack (Gela thrust system). These successions are characterized by a basal unconformity on the deformed substrate believed to be the depositional interface common both to the coeval wedge-top and foredeep basins. The tectono-sedimentary evolution of the syn-tectonic basins was controlled by the progressive deepening of the structural levels, which were active during the growing of the FTB. The palinspastic restoration of a crustal geological transect in central Sicily points to: i) the occurrence of two subsequent, basal main thrusts (MT1 and MT2) active during the Neogene-middle Pleistocene tectonic evolution, as well as ii) a decrease in slip- and shortening-rate, estimated for the later MT2 as compared to earlier MT1 basal main thrust. The foreland-basin system evolution recorded during these two steps suggests: – the regional lithofacies distribution, during late Tortonian-early Pliocene, accounted for a wide depozone including the Iblean plateau and its offshore;– a crucial change was recorded by the late Pliocene-Pleistocene wedge-top depozone, when the deeper basal main thrust (MT2) involved and thickened (in the inner sector of the FTB) the crystalline basement (thin- to thick-skinned thrust tectonics); this change influenced the depozones, progressively narrowing up to the present-day setting. As regards this general evolutionary framework, thin-skinned and thick-skinned thrust tectonics can be recognized in the Sicilian FTB evolution. The late Tortonian-early Pliocene, thin-skinned thrust tectonics include two main tectonic events, a “shallow-seated” Event 1 and a “deep-seated” Event 2, with the Pliocene-Pleistocene thick-skinned thrust tectonics representing a third tectonic event (Event 3).
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De Angelis, Franco De Angelis, and Benjamin Garstad. "Euhemerus in Context." Classical Antiquity 25, no. 2 (October 1, 2006): 211–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ca.2006.25.2.211.
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Abstract Euhemerus, the famous theorist on the nature of the gods who lived around 300 BC, has usually been discussed as a disembodied intellectual figure, with scholars focusing on his literary and philosophical sources and influence. Although he is called ““Euhemerus of Messene,”” there is uncertainty as to where he was born, lived, and worked, in particular whether he came from Sicilian or Peloponnesian Messene. Until now, the conquests of Alexander the Great and the establishment of the Successor Kingdoms have been considered the only context for Euhemerus. This paper will draw upon literary, historical, and archaeological evidence to argue that Euhemerus belongs in a Sicilian context. The long history of the worship of rulers in Sicily from the oikistai to the tyrants of Syracuse, the wealth of Sicily, the proximity of the Lipari Islands, the multiethnic milieu of Sicily with its vigorous interaction and syncretism, all contributed to Euhemerus' experiences and thought. We suggest that centuries of Sicilian cultural and political experience, not merely the ““phenomenon”” of Alexander the Great and the dawn of the Hellenistic Age, provided the impetus to the ideas of Euhemerus, and that Euhemerus brought this Sicilian contribution to bear on the new problems of the wider world.
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Allegro, Rosalinda, Antonino Calagna, Daniela Lo Monaco, Valentina Ciprì, Carmelo Bongiorno, Gaetano Cammilleri, Luisa Battaglia, et al. "The assessment of the attitude of Sicilian consumers towards wild and farmed seafood products – a sample survey." British Food Journal 123, no. 7 (March 5, 2021): 2506–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/bfj-09-2020-0853.
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PurposeThe purpose of the paper was to know and evaluate consumption, preferences and the knowledge of labelling legislation about wild and farmed seafood products.Design/methodology/approachA sample survey on Sicilian families was conducted through a direct interviews between October 2015 and October 2016 to study the attitudes of Sicilian consumers towards wild and farmed fish and seafood products. A stratified two-stage sampling design was chosen with variable probability of inclusion of the units of first stage and 1,700 subjects were interviewed.FindingsThe results obtained showed that the 69.4% of respondent ate fresh fish at least once a week and the 86% of respondents consumed aquaculture products at least once a month. Also, the 77.3% of respondents did not know the current legislation on the labelling. Multiple correspondence analysis allowed to identified three profiles of Sicilian families and binary logit model was used to examine the factors that influenced different frequency of fresh fish consumption in general and farmed seafood products in particular.Research limitations/implicationsExtending the research throughout the Italian territory would have allowed further comparisons at the national level.Practical implicationsThe research provides useful information on Sicilian consumers that could be used by policymakers and by marketing communications company.Social implicationsThis research, on a restricted group of European consumers (Sicilian), characterised by living in an island, reinforce the knowledge regarding seafood consumers.Originality/valueThis study used a probabilistic sampling design and a face-to-face questionnaire which produce results more robust in compare to surveys used more frequently such as non-probabilistic sampling design.
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Pisciotta, A., P. Catania, S. Orlando, and M. Vallone. "Influence of row orientation on the canopy temperature of Sicilian vineyards." Acta Horticulturae, no. 1314 (June 2021): 367–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.17660/actahortic.2021.1314.46.
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Romão, João Manuel Batista. "A criminalidade organizada internacional: Seu impacto em Portugal no século XXI." Master's thesis, Universidade Portucalense, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11328/1226.
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Dissertação de Mestrado em Ciências Jurídico-ProcessuaisA presente dissertação de mestrado procura dar uma perspetiva realista e atualizada da atividade das principais associações criminosas de cariz internacional, caracterizando-as a partir da análise histórica–evolutiva das condições que contribuíram para o seu surgimento, do complexo “modus operandi” em que cada uma se move, da dinâmica que desenvolveram, da expansão que têm conseguido e da ameaça que representam num processo de globalização da economia e da sociedade. É certo que as organizações criminosas existem pelo menos desde a Antiguidade, tal como os conceitos de bem e do mal, de justiça, do crime e da punição. Mas o crime organizado no Ocidente, tal como o vamos conhecendo, é um fenómeno que surgiu apenas há pouco mais de um século e tem-se expandido, diversificado e até fortalecido, com mais ou menos reveses, em todas as partes do globo, tendo-se tornado uma ameaça silenciosa mas nem por isso menos mortífera do que o terrorismo ou os cataclismos climáticos à escala regional. Daí ser importante que, para além duma abordagem das especificidades de cada organização, também se faça nesta dissertação referência aos mecanismos mais eficazes da investigação, da repressão e punição de tal fenómeno, assim como a algumas convenções e legislação internacional relevantes para tal finalidade. Analisados os principais aspetos criminológicos desta realidade, também se impõe referir os potenciais perigos para Portugal, tendo presente a sua inserção europeia e os conhecimentos atuais disponíveis. A presente dissertação não resulta apenas dum mero trabalho de estudo, mas também de um esforço reiterado de cruzamento de dados, de análise e reflexão que passou pela consulta da diversa bibliografia indicada, da apreciação critica de um grande número de artigos e noticias publicados na imprensa estrangeira, assim como da informação que os organismos internacionais, o Congresso Norte-Americano e forças policiais prestigiadas como o FBI, o Conselho e a Comissão Europeia (ainda que através de outros organismos que patrocinam) disponibilizam de forma mais aberta ou reservada.
This dissertation aims to give a realistic and updated perspective on the activity of the main international criminal organizations, characterizing them using historical-evolutionary analysis of the conditions that contributed to their emergence, the complex “modus operandi” in which each one moves, the dynamic that they developed, the expansion they have achieved and the threat they represent in the process of globalization of the economy and society. It is true that criminal organizations exist at least since antiquity, such as the concepts of good and evil, justice, crime and punishment. But organised crime in the west, as we know it, it is a phenomenon that came up just a little over a century and it has expanded, diversified and even strengthened, with more or less setbacks, in all parts of the globe, having become a quieter but no less deadlier than terrorism or climatic cataclysms of regional scale. Therefore, in addition to an approach of the specificities of each organization, it is important to refer to the most effective mechanisms of research, the prosecution and punishment of such phenomenon, as well as some relevant conventions and international law for such purpose. Having analyzed the main criminological aspects of this reality, it should be referred the potential dangers to Portugal, bearing in mind its European integration and current knowledge available. This dissertation arises from study, persistent data cross analysis, and reflection by consulting diverse bibliography, critically appreciating a large number of articles and news published in the foreign press, as well as the information provided (in a more open and reserved manner) by international organizations and prestigious police forces, such as the FBI, the USA Congress, the European Council and European Commission (through other sponsoring organizations).
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Vigneri, Francesco. "Flussi migratori e processi interculturali nelle zone di confine : dinamiche comunicative e prassi di riconoscimento a Lampedusa e in Sicilia (2011-2014)." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016STRAG002.
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La recherche porte sur l’observation et l’analyse des dynamiques, explicites et implicites, qui règlent les interactions communicatives entre les migrants, arrivés en Europe par la route de la Méditerranée centrale, et les intervenants (humanitaires et sécuritaires) impliqués dans la gestion de l’urgence migratoire aux frontières maritimes. L’étude se focalise sur l’île de Lampedusa et la Sicile où les observations ont été menées à trois périodes différentes de l’histoire récente des migrations en Europe : en 2011, suite aux révolutions arabes, en 2013, lors du naufrage du 3 octobre, et en 2014, pendant l’opération de recherche et sauvetage Mare Nostrum. Elle vise à saisir les spécificités de chacun de ces contextes et la manière dont celles-ci se lient, dans un rapport de conditionnement mutuel, à des variables de plus grande envergure – les politiques migratoires, le rôle des médias, les sentiments collectifs, etc. – en influençant les comportements communicatifs des sujets observésThe research aims at observing and analysing both the explicit and the implicit dynamics that characterise the communicative interactions between migrants who reach Europe through the central Mediterranean route and the security and humanitarian players working at its maritime borders. The study focuses on the island of Lampedusa and Sicily where much of the fieldwork has been carried out over three significant periods of Europe’s recent migration history: in 2011, in the aftermath of the Arab uprisings, in 2013, at the time of the 3 October migrant shipwreck, in 2014, during the search and rescue operation Mare Nostrum. The purpose is to capture and take into account the specific characteristics of each context as well as their closely intertwined combination with wider factors – immigration policies, the role of the media, the general perception of migration, etc. – which influence the communicative behaviours of the subjects observed and the ways they interact with each other
Il presente lavoro si pone l’obiettivo di osservare le interazioni tra i migranti da un lato, e gli operatori dell’accoglienza e della sicurezza dall’altro, nelle zonedi confine esposte ai flussi migratori, e nello specifico l’isola di Lampedusa e la Sicilia tra il 2011 e il 2014; di analizzarne le dinamiche comunicative col supporto di riferimenti teorico-letterari e di rilevazioni precedentemente prodotte in analoghi contesti di studio; di proporre, infine, delle riflessioni sui principali elementi individuatinell’osservazione del fenomeno, cercando di contribuire allo sviluppo di un percorso d’indagine che l’attuale declinarsi del fenomeno migratorio ha imposto al dibattito sociologico, e soprattutto di proporre spunti di riflessione e approfondimento rispetto a una narrazione che, nonostante la complessità del tema, risulta spesso troppo semplicistica osensazionalistica, e funzionale al tornaconto mediatico e politico
Books on the topic "Sicilian influences"
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Musumeci, Ferdinando. Il ritmo siciliano: Una tradizione smarrita ma non perduta. Messina: Armando Siciliano editore, 2015.
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Correnti, Santi. Il contributo dei siciliani alla civiltà europea. 2nd ed. Catania: Giannotta, 1987.
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Sicilian palimpsest: The language of Castroreale and its territory. New York: Legas, 2009.
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Pietro, Di Marco, and Musco Alessandro, eds. Aspetti della cultura bizantina ed albanese in Sicilia. Palermo: Officina di studi medievali, 2005.
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Pietro, Di Marco, and Musco Alessandro, eds. Aspetti della cultura bizantina ed albanese in Sicilia. Palermo: Officina di studi medievali, 2005.
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Salmeri, Giovanni. Sicilia romana: Storia e storiografia. Catania: G. Maimone, 1992.
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Saverio, Santangelo Giovanni, ed. Sicilia e Francia, come in uno specchio. [Palermo]: Università di Palermo, Facoltà di lettere, Istituto di lingue e letterature straniere, 1988.
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Iñesta-Pastor, Emilia. "The Influence Exerted by the 1819 Criminal Code of the Two Sicilies upon Nineteenth-Century Spanish Criminal Law Codification and Its Projection in Latin America." In Studies in the History of Law and Justice, 243–78. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71912-2_9.
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Abulafia, David. "Conclusion: Crossing the Sea." In The Great Sea. Oxford University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195323344.003.0050.
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It is tempting to try to reduce the history of the Mediterranean to a few common features, to attempt to define a ‘Mediterranean identity’ or to insist that certain physical features of the region have moulded human experience there (as Braudel strongly argued). Yet this search for a fundamental unity starts from a misunderstanding of what the Mediterranean has meant for the peoples who have inhabited its shores and islands, or have crossed its surface. Rather than searching for unity, we should note diversity. At the human level, this ethnic, linguistic, religious and political diversity was constantly subject to external influences from across the sea, and therefore in a constant state of flux. From the earliest chapters of this book, where the first settlers in Sicily were described, to the ribbon developments along the Spanish costas, the edges of the Mediterranean Sea have provided meeting-points for peoples of the most varied backgrounds who have exploited its resources and learned, in some cases, to make a living from transferring its products from better-endowed to ill-endowed regions. From within its waters came fish and salt, two ingredients of the much-traded garum sauce of ancient Rome, and the basis for the early prosperity of one of the greatest of Mediterranean cities, Venice. As predicted in the preface, fishermen have not featured prominently in this book, in part because the evidence they have left behind is often very slight, but in part too because fishermen seek what is by definition under the surface of the sea and are less likely to make contact with communities on the opposing shores of the Mediterranean. The great exceptions are within the narrows near Malta, where the Genoese established a colony at Tabarka on the coast of Tunisia between 1540 and 1742 specializing in coral-fishing, and where Tunisian fishermen have now joined Sicilian fleets in the matanza, the great seasonal slaughter of tuna. Even more than fish, which keeps well only after salting or drying, grain has long been the major product carried across the sea, originally grown around its shores or brought down from the Black Sea, but, by the seventeenth century, increasingly of north European origin.
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"Philosophy and medicine until the fourth century: 'Sicilian' medicine and its influence." In Greek Medicine, 66–88. Routledge, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203824832-13.
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Joho, Tobias. "Decision-Making Overshadowed by Necessity." In Style and Necessity in Thucydides, 159—C5.P103. Oxford University PressOxford, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198812043.003.0006.
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Abstract The chapter investigates the dominant forces in three major decisions recounted by Thucydides. First, in his account of the ‘truest cause’ of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides makes stylistic choices that highlight the subjection of the major players to an impersonal process: a pull unleashed by power and collective impulses. Secondly, the aftermath of the Athenian triumph at Pylos gives the paradoxical picture that victors and losers alike are passive in the face of the irrational forces confronting them. Finally, the Athenians’ decision to undertake the Sicilian Expedition takes place under the influence of rampant passions that impose themselves upon the Athenians and are represented as the forces that ultimately prompt the vote in favour of the expedition. In all three major decisions the implications of the abstract style suggest the prevalence of forces beyond the control of human agents. This exposure of all humans to far-reaching processes and collective forces is more fundamental than the contrast, however blatant, between the Athenian and Spartan character.
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Miles, Margaret M. "Large Temples as Cultural Banners in Western Sicily." In Religious Convergence in the Ancient Mediterranean, 59–75. Lockwood Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5913/2019167.ch03.
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An Elymian identity given by Thucydides (6.2.3) illustrates well ethnic convergen- ces in classical Sicily. Refugees from Troy called themselves Elymians, founded Segesta and Eryx, and were later joined by some storm-driven Phokians. The Trojan ethnic component may reflect a Sicilian tradition at least as early as the late sixth century BCE (Stesichoros), strengthened through time, so that by the Roman period Segesta won tax relief on the basis of “kinship diplomacy.” Identifying what is Elymian about Segesta is challenging, and the main topic of two international congresses (Pisa 1997, 2000). The Sanctuary at Contrada Mango was partially excavated by Vincenzo Tusa in the 1950s, and yielded Archaic pottery with graffiti in Elymian, but written in the Greek epichoric alphabet of Megara Hyblaia: thus convergence began early. This article addresses convergences in religious architecture: the Unfinished Temple at Segesta (ca. 420 BCE), Segesta’s stellar attraction today, has been studied thoroughly by Dieter Mertens (1984). Not as well known is a Greek, Doric temple of similar size but earlier fifth-century date, in the sanctuary at Contrada Mango at Segesta. Pieces of its superstructure lie scattered on the ground. Whereas Mertens was able to docu- ment Athenian influence in the unfinished temple, other sources of influence, and original- ity, are evident in Contrada Mango’s earlier temple.
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Ulunyan, Artyom. "A. Ipsilanti’s Moldavo-Wallachian Saga in Newspapers of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and the Sardinian Kingdom (First Half of 1821)." In 1821 in the History of Balkan Peoples (On the 200th anniversary of the Greek Revolution), 39–69. Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences; Hellenic Cultural Center, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.31168/0469-5.03.
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International relations in Europe after the Vienna congress, the conferences following it and the treaties signed as a result, were shaped by a confrontation of two main ideological principles that emerged after the Napoleonic era - liberalism and conservatism, amplified by the internal political developments in most European states. From the point of view of the public news agenda, events in Greece have attracted widespread attention not just as another conflict po-tentially capable of turning into a full-scale war involving European empires, but also as one of the manifestations of the struggle for national independence based on liberal ideas. This chapter examines the way the uprising led by A. Ipsilanti in Moldavia and Wallachia was portrayed by the semi-official “Giornale del Regno delle Due Sicilie” and by two Sardinian publications, “Gazzetta di Genova” and “Gazetta piemontese”. Particular attention is given to the time-frame of publications, which usually came much later than the actual events, as well as the general tone of those publications, determined largely by situation in post-Revolutionary Italy, Austrian influence on Italian political life and the fact that Italian publications depended on Austrian sources for information about the events in Moldavia and Wallachia. The author deconstructs the reprinting system used by Italian publications and the usage of material in a de-chronologised, mosaic fashion which further transformed the image of the events for the Italian public, creating a “chorographic image” of the events in the Danube principalities as the Greek struggle for independence unfolded. The description of A. Ipsilanti’s actions, for all the details provide by the aforementioned publications, was inconsistent, as was the description of the results of his struggle, primarily due to the reliance on Austrian and German newspapers as a source of information.
Conference papers on the topic "Sicilian influences"
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Mollica, Sonia. "Tradition and semantics: the case of Aeolian architecture." In HERITAGE2022 International Conference on Vernacular Heritage: Culture, People and Sustainability. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica de València, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/heritage2022.2022.14070.
Full textAbstract:
Vernacular architecture is identified as a structure based on specific local needs, on the presence of building materials present in the place and on the extemporaneousness of the architecture, built according to structural dogmas based on the local construction tradition. This is confirmed by the etymology of the word ‘vernacular’, from the Latin “vernaculus”, meaning "indigenous, domestic", or from “verna”, that is "native slave". In the present, vernacular architecture takes on new meanings, often used as an identifier for popular architecture - as also stated by Allen Noble in "Traditional Buildings: A global Survey of Structural Forms and Cultural Functions" of 2007 - or rather structures belonging to common people but «That can be built by skilled professionals, using local and traditional designs and materials», which is also supported by the Oxford English Dictionary. It is in this context that the vernacular Aeolian architecture fits, which significantly and identically characterize the entire territory of the Aeolian Islands, awarded the title of World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Aeolian architecture is inextricably linked to the history of the invasions of different peoples that have taken place in this area, such as the Greek-Roman, Islamic and finally Campania influences, due to their modifications both from an urbanistic and compositional point of view. But today how is it possible to encourage the dissemination and knowledge of these architectures which are so identifying for the Sicilian territory? Cataloging and semantics are configured as fundamental actions for the analysis and use of the architectural heritage, broken down into its deepest formal and compositional characteristics, identifiable in Aeolian architecture through the identification of semantics with a peculiar nomenclature. This article therefore investigates the aspects of semantics applied to traditional language and the compositional characteristics of Aeolian architecture, treated as an indissoluble link of knowledge and analysis of the building, through possible uses of digital applications.