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Landscapes, Temples, And Colonization In Sicily : A Study Of Greek Sacred Architecture And Colonization In Sicily To Better Understand Cultural Ethnicity, Cassandra C. Tobin

Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations

The focus of this study is to better understand cultural ethnicity and colonization in Sicily. The objective is fourfold: (1) identify and note all Greek temples in Sicily, (2) identify and better understand the landscape relationships of Greek temples, (3) understand what literary sources and archaeological data say about Greek colonization in Sicily, and (4) using that information, determine how "Greek" Greek temple sites are in Sicily. The project seeks to determine whether Greek sacred architecture can be used to determine the cultural heritage of a site, and if so, apply the hypothesis to all Greek temple sites in Sicily. …