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| Coin, before 405 BCE, Sikeliote (Sicilian Greek) © Royal Library of Belgium, du Chastel coll., nr. 112 |
I don't know about you, but when I think Sicily, I tend to think Italy, not Greece. But the Greeks were an integral part of Sicily's history, as I learned from these pages accompanying the Getty Villa's exhibit called
Sicily: Art and Invention Between Greece and Rome (museum website with story, audio):
http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/sicily/greeks.html
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