The volume C. Ampolo, R. Giglio, A. Magnetto, M.C. Parra (eds.), Conflitto e cultura civica nella storia della Sicilia antica: tra stasis e homonoia, 2024, has just been published.
All contents are published by Edizioni della Normale in open access and can be downloaded at the following address: https://edizioni.sns.it/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Atti-Erice-2024.pdf
This volume collects the contributions presented at the IX International Workshop on the Elymian Area and Western Sicily in the Mediterranean Context, organized by Carmine Ampolo, Rossella Giglio, Anna Magnetto and M. Cecilia Parra at the Ettore Majorana Center for Scientific Culture (Erice, September 28-30, 2021). In the Workshop tradition on the so-called “Elymian area,” started by Giuseppe Nenci on the topic dear to Vincenzo Tusa – but continued since 2003 with a less ‘ethnic’ profile – the sections on some epigraphic novelties and archaeological activities are preceded by a central topic: the protagonist of the IX Days is stasis, the internal conflict within cities and communities, indirectly present also in one of the decrees from Entella, the one of the city of Nakone. An important theme not only for the communities of ancient Sicily, for politics, society and the history of the island itself, reproposed and revisited through historical analysis of individual cases, including solutions to the conflict. Prominent roles are played by accounts of recent archaeological research in western Sicily, particularly at Segesta, Entella and Erice, the best-known centers of the “Elymian area,” alongside contributions on the language of the Elymians and on innovative projects to digitize epigraphic material.
