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Edward A. Freeman.
Sicily: Phoenician, Greek, & Roman.
Published London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1902.
Series: The Story of the Nations.
[No ISBN].
Binding: hardback, stitch bound; decorated boards.
Printed in the UK at the Gresham Press, Unwin Brothers.
Size: 141x201x31mm.
Page count: xvi,378pp plus 1 foldout and a 24pp publisher’s catalogue.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: this copy has no dustjacket; boards frayed at the edges and corners, and somewhat rubbed overall; binding starting to split here and there, though no pages are detached; heavy foxing to the pages at either end of the book, lighter foxing to the page edges; otherwise the paper is somewhat yellowed with age; many pages throughout have some pencilled underlining.

This item £5.00
plus P&P £3.00 within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[Various POD edns. available]
Weight without packaging: 798g.

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Emphasis pre-medieval.

Contents: Characteristics of Sicilian history; Sicily & its inhabitants; The legends; Greek settlements; 1st age of the Greek cities; 1st wars with Carthage & Etruria; Greeks of Sicily free & independent; Share in the wars of old Greece; 2nd Carthaginian invasion; Tyranny of Dionysios; The deliverers; Tyranny of Agathoklês; Coming of Pyrrhos & rise of Hierôn; War for Sicily; End of Sicilian independence; Sicily a Roman province.

Illustrations: 42, monochrome
Maps & plans: 1 in 2‑colour on a foldout sheet, 3 monochrome in the text

Notes: no
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: no
Index: yes

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