La géographie de la Sicile dans les Verrines

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_16582
dc.contributor.author	Soraci Cristina
dc.title	La géographie de la Sicile dans les Verrines
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	fr
dc.description.abstract	Cicero’s Verrines offer a great deal of information on the Romans’ geographical knowledge of the island in the first century BC. This paper aims to trace the characteristics of Sicily’s insularity, to identify which Sicilian cities were mentioned, ‘forgotten’ or visited by the author and to recognise the roads and elements of the natural landscape referred to in the works. The contrast between the summary description of many cities and the particular attention reserved for two of them (Syracusae and Henna) is carefully examined. A new reconstruction of the route followed by Cicero on his tour of the island in 70 BC is also offered.
dc.relation.ispartof	Antiquity Studies
dc.relation.ispartof	Filologia e letteratura
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2023-12-19
dc.dateAccepted	2023-04-18
dc.dateSubmitted	2023-02-13
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-743-2/la-geographie-de-la-sicile-dans-les-verrines/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-742-5/002
dc.identifier.issn	2610-8828
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9344
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-743-2
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-742-5
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Cicero
dc.subject	Cities
dc.subject	Geography
dc.subject	Natural landscape
dc.subject	Route
dc.subject	Sicily

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La géographie de la Sicile dans les Verrines

Cristina Soraci Università di Catania, Italia

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Cicero’s Verrines offer a great deal of information on the Romans’ geographical knowledge of the island in the first century BC. This paper aims to trace the characteristics of Sicily’s insularity, to identify which Sicilian cities were mentioned, ‘forgotten’ or visited by the author and to recognise the roads and elements of the natural landscape referred to in the works. The contrast between the summary description of many cities and the particular attention reserved for two of them (Syracusae and Henna) is carefully examined. A new reconstruction of the route followed by Cicero on his tour of the island in 70 BC is also offered.

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Dec. 19, 2023

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April 18, 2023

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Feb. 13, 2023

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978-88-6969-743-2

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978-88-6969-742-5

Keywords: Geography • Cities • Natural landscape • Cicero • Route • Sicily

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