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The idyllic image that ancient historiography has given of the arrival of the Greeks on the island is far from what was in truth a coexistence that was anything but peaceful, characterized by the oppression of the natives, by the "economic and political, but also cultural and ideological pressure
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The contribution to literature made by the Siceliotes was remarkable. In fact, some genres of Greek literature developed in Sicily: according to Aristotle, the technique of constructing plots was born in Sicily and the Doric-Siceliote comedy itself, whose main exponents were
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died in Sicily, the first considered "the most famous of the first tragedians", the second listed among the three greatest tragedians of ancient Greek theatre; Aeschylus also performed some of his tragedies in the Syracuse theatre, including
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Theatre in Sicily was not limited to comedy alone: Sophron of Syracuse is credited with the invention of Greek mime (μῖμος), which had considerable success in the Hellenistic age, especially with
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continued to see a distinction between the Siceliotes (the descendants of Greek settlers) and the non-Greek inhabitants of Sicily.
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exerted by the colonizers, and the consequent dismantling of the parameters of self-identification of the indigenous world"
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and participated in the wider cultural and political activities of Greek Sicily and of the Hellenic world as a whole. The
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Another great Sicilian innovation was rhetoric: the first manuals of this, in fact, are attributed to the Syracusans
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spent ten years of exile there According to some scholars, choral lyric poetry itself may have been born in Sicily.
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as one of the most important pre-Socratic philosophers, to be the inventor of rhetoric: among his students was
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Thucydides IV, 64.3, Italian translation by Luciano Canfora - English translation
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He was part of the court of intellectuals that surrounded the Syracuse tyrant
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until their assimilation into the general Sicilian population. As
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Siceliotes are a distinguishable subethnicity of the broader
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Philistus

Archimedes

Tetradrachm
Ancient Greek
Sicily
8th century BC
Hellenic
colonists
Doric
Greece
Greek
Athenian
Thucydides
History of the Peloponnesian War
Roman Republic
Roman Empire
Italiote
Congress of Gela
Thucydides
Hermocrates
Epicharmus of Kos
Attic Greek
5th century BC
Theocritus
Phrynichus
Aeschylus

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