Description:
This book, accompanying a major 2016 exhibition at the British Museum, offers a broad survey of the island's geography and its rich mythological and historical past, while focusing on Sicily's two most artistically innovative periods.
Brief description: Dirk Booms is curator of Roman Mediterranean archaeology at the British Museum, specializing in architecture, sculpture, and inscriptions, and Norman Sicily. He is the author of Latin Inscriptions and coauthor and cocurator of Roman Empire.