Sicily: large and rich island opposite the Italian mainland. In Antiquity, it was settled by Phoenicians and Greeks, and contested by the Carthaginians, Romans, Ostrogoths, and Byzantines.Articles on Sicily
Prehistory
Polybius' decription of the Sicilian topography
Homer on the Cyclops
Colonization
Thucydides on the colonization
Polyaenus…
Sicily: large and rich island opposite the Italian mainland. In Antiquity, it was settled by Phoenicians and Greeks, and contested by the Carthaginians, Romans, Ostrogoths, and Byzantines.Prehistory
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Sidon (Hebrew: צִידוֹן, Ṣîdôn; Greek: Σιδών): port in Phoenicia, modern Ṣaydā.Bronze Age
Sidon-Dakerman, Middle Bronze jar
Situated on a promontory halfway between…
Silphium (Greek σίλφιον): unidentified, now extinct plant from ancient Cyrenaica.
Coin from Cyrene, silphium
According to the Greek researcher Herodotus, who lived in…
Soastus: ancient Greek name of the river Swat in Pakistan.The valley of the Swat, the ancient Soastus, belongs to the most fertile areas of modern Pakistan. There are pine forests and lush green plains, and it comes as no surprise…
Sogdians (Greek: Σογδιανοί or Σόγδοι): ancient name for the people living in the region of Maracanda (modern Samarkand). Their land is known as Sogdia, Sogdiana (Greek Σογδιανή), or Transoxiana.The land
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At the beginning of our era, the Greek scientist Strabo of Amasia published his Geography, which includes the following description of Tyre. Geography 16.2.23 is offered here in the translation by H. L. Jones.
Strymon: river in Thrace. Today, it is called Struma (in Bulgarian) and Strymonas (in Greek). The poetic name Kara Su, "the black waters", is Turkish.
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