Mark R. Thatcher is Assistant Professor of the Practice, Department of Classical Studies, at Boston College.

T. presents a thoughtful analysis of the ways by which shifting communal identities impacted political decisions and how different political contexts in turn caused a change in salience for the polis, regional, sub-Hellenic ethnic and Greek identities held by Sicilian and Italian Greeks. These overlapping identities create a four-fold structure for the study, and one of the strengths of the work is T.'s demonstration of the interconnected and interdependent nature of these four identities.

• AcknowledgmentsList of abbreviationsList of figuresMaps 1. Introduction Scope of researchTheorizing identityA typology of identitiesSeeking identity in antiquity 2. Becoming Achaean in Italy The first AchaeansCroton: athletes and heroesMetapontion: insiders and outsidersConclusion 3. Syracusan Tyranny and Identity Politics The tyrant's house and Syracusan identitiesGreeks and barbariansResponses to tyrannyConclusion 4. Ruling Grain-Rich Sicily Myth and cultSicilian politicsConclusion 5. Shifting Identities in Thucydides' Sicily Kinship diplomacyCamarina's polis identityRhetoric and identityConclusion 6. Continuity and Change in the Third Century Greeks and barbarians in southern ItalyBeing Syracusan in the third centuryConclusion Conclusion BibliographyIndex

Mark R. Thatcher is Assistant Professor of the Practice, Department of Classical Studies, at Boston College.

T. presents a thoughtful analysis of the ways by which shifting communal identities impacted political decisions and how different political contexts in turn caused a change in salience for the polis, regional, sub-Hellenic ethnic and Greek identities held by Sicilian and Italian Greeks. These overlapping identities create a four-fold structure for the study, and one of the strengths of the work is T.'s demonstration of the interconnected and interdependent nature of these four identities.

• AcknowledgmentsList of abbreviationsList of figuresMaps 1. Introduction Scope of researchTheorizing identityA typology of identitiesSeeking identity in antiquity 2. Becoming Achaean in Italy The first AchaeansCroton: athletes and heroesMetapontion: insiders and outsidersConclusion 3. Syracusan Tyranny and Identity Politics The tyrant's house and Syracusan identitiesGreeks and barbariansResponses to tyrannyConclusion 4. Ruling Grain-Rich Sicily Myth and cultSicilian politicsConclusion 5. Shifting Identities in Thucydides' Sicily Kinship diplomacyCamarina's polis identityRhetoric and identityConclusion 6. Continuity and Change in the Third Century Greeks and barbarians in southern ItalyBeing Syracusan in the third centuryConclusion Conclusion BibliographyIndex

Mark R. Thatcher is Assistant Professor of the Practice, Department of Classical Studies, at Boston College.

T. presents a thoughtful analysis of the ways by which shifting communal identities impacted political decisions and how different political contexts in turn caused a change in salience for the polis, regional, sub-Hellenic ethnic and Greek identities held by Sicilian and Italian Greeks. These overlapping identities create a four-fold structure for the study, and one of the strengths of the work is T.'s demonstration of the interconnected and interdependent nature of these four identities.

• AcknowledgmentsList of abbreviationsList of figuresMaps 1. Introduction Scope of researchTheorizing identityA typology of identitiesSeeking identity in antiquity 2. Becoming Achaean in Italy The first AchaeansCroton: athletes and heroesMetapontion: insiders and outsidersConclusion 3. Syracusan Tyranny and Identity Politics The tyrant's house and Syracusan identitiesGreeks and barbariansResponses to tyrannyConclusion 4. Ruling Grain-Rich Sicily Myth and cultSicilian politicsConclusion 5. Shifting Identities in Thucydides' Sicily Kinship diplomacyCamarina's polis identityRhetoric and identityConclusion 6. Continuity and Change in the Third Century Greeks and barbarians in southern ItalyBeing Syracusan in the third centuryConclusion Conclusion BibliographyIndex