Ancient Sicily to the Arab Conquest.

From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Slightly rubbed, pencil annotation on page of dedication, otherwise very good and clean. Includes german newspaper article about the history of Sicily. / Leicht berieben, Bleistiftanmerkung auf Widmungsseite, sonst sehr gut und sauber. Beiligend deutscher Zeitungsartikel zur Geschichte von Sizilien. - CONTENTS: PART 1 Prehistoric and Archaic Sicily -- 1. The Beginnings -- 2. The Coming of the Greeks -- 3. Archaic Society and Politics -- PART 2 The Greek Tyrants -- 4. The First Tyrants -- 5. Democratic Interlude, 466-405 b.c. -- 6. Dionysius I -- 7. Plato, Dion and Dionysius II -- 8. Timoleon and Agathocles -- PART 3 Roman and Byzantine Sicily -- 9. Between Carthage and Rome -- 10. The First Roman Province -- 11. The Great Slave Revolts -- 12. Sicily under the Roman Emperors -- 13. Christianity -- 14. Byzantine Rule: the End of Ancient Sicily -- Notes on the Plates -- Bibliography. - Sir Moses Israel Finley, FBA (born Finkelstein; 20 May 1912 � 23 June 1986) was an American-born British academic and classical scholar. Finley taught at Columbia University and City College of New York, where he was influenced by members of the Frankfurt School who were working in exile in America. He then taught at Rutgers University. Finley immigrated to Britain, where he was appointed university lecturer in classics at Cambridge (1955�1964) and, during 1957, elected to a fellowship at Jesus College. He was reader of ancient social and economic history (1964�1970), professor of ancient history (1970�1979) and master of Darwin College (1976�1982). He gave the 1974 Mortimer Wheeler Archaeological Lecture. He broadened the scope of classical studies from philology to culture, economics, and society. He became a British subject in 1962 and a Fellow of the British Academy in 1971, and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II during 1979. He was a doctorate adviser to Paul Millett, now a senior lecturer in Classics at the University of Cambridge. (Wikipedia)