AGRIGENTO

ägrējānˈtō, Lat. Agrigentum, city (1991 pop. 55,283), capital of Agrigento prov., S Sicily, Italy, on a hill above the Mediterranean Sea. It is an agricultural market and a tourist center, but per capita income is among the lowest in Italy. Sulfur and potash are mined. Founded c.580 b.c. as Acragas (or Akragas) by Greek colonists of Gela, the city became one of the most prosperous in the Greek world, as is indicated by the imposing ruins that remain. It was destroyed c.406 b.c. by Carthage but recovered. During the first of the Punic Wars the city suffered at the hands of both the Romans and the Carthaginians. It fell definitively to Rome in 210 b.c. during the Second Punic War. After the fall of Rome, Agrigento passed to the Byzantines and then to the Arabs (9th cent.) and to the Normans (11th cent.). Of note in the city are the remains of several Doric temples (6th–5th cent. b.c.), Roman ruins, Christian catacombs, and archaeological and art museums.

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The Archaeology of Ancient Sicily
Book by R. Ross Holloway; Routledge, 2000
Subjects: Antiquities, Prehistoric--Italy--Sicily, Excavations (Archaeology)--Italy--Sicily, Sicily (Italy)--Antiquities, Sicily (Italy)--Civilization--Greek Influences
...nel territorio di Palma di Montechiaro Agrigento , Sicilia archeologica 15, 49-50...nel territorio di Palma di Montechiaro Agrigento , 2, Sicilia archeologica 16, 52...con nota sul sito di Caltafaraci presso Agrigento, Laparola del passato 39:375-83...
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The Architecture of Ancient Greece: An Account of Its Historic Development
Book by William Bell Dinsmoor, William J. Anderson, R. Phené Spiers; Biblo and Tannen, 1973
Subjects: Architecture--Greece
...GRIFFO P. -- Ultimi scavi e ultime scoperte in Agrigento . Agrigento, 1946. KLENZE L. v. -- Der Tempel des olympischen...Olimpieion agrigentino. " In same. -- -- -- Agrigento, topografia ed arte . Florence, 1929...
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The Architecture of Ancient Greece: An Account of Its Historic Development
Book by William Bell Dinsmoor; Biblo and Tannen, 1973
Subjects: Architecture--Greece
...GRIFFO P. -- Ultimi scavi e ultime scoperte in Agrigento . Agrigento, 1946. KLENZE L. v. -- Der Tempel des olympischen...dell Olimpieion agrigentino ." In same. ----- Agrigento, topografia ed arte . Florence, 1929...
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The Regions of Italy: A Reference Guide to History and Culture
Book by Roy Domenico; Greenwood Press, 2002
Subjects: Italy--Handbooks, Manuals, Etc
...proximity to Africa, the Muslims turned Agrigento into the second city of Sicily by developing...remained active in the area and held Agrigento for a time. They used its cathedral...Swabian arms won the day, however, and Agrigento evolved into a feudal possession within...
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The Western Greeks: The History of Sicily and South Italy from the Foundation of the Greek Colonies to 480 B.C
Book by T. J. Dunbabin; Clarendon Press, 1948
Subjects: Greece--Colonies--Italy
...found at Naro and at Montaperto near Agrigento, 1 without Greek imports, but do not...Marconi, 4 and it alone is exhibited in Agrigento Museum. To judge from the brief description...Angelo Muxaro, within fifteen miles of Agrigento; 6 and the proto-Doric cornice, which...
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Sicilian Folk Narrative versus Sicilian-American Literature: Mangione's "Mount Allegro
Journal article by Justin Vitiello; MELUS, Vol. 18, 1993
Subjects: Mangione, Jerre--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Mount Allegro (Book)--Social aspects, Myth in literature--Social aspects, Sicily, Italy--Popular culture
...far from Mangiones place of origin, Agrigento.(1) Locating Trappetese narratives...magnificent cities of Magna Graecia, Agrigento, "still has beauty" (248), yet...claiming that the Fascists called the city Agrigento (and not Girgenti), cannot even get...
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Puccini and Aeschylus in Sicily, May 2008
Journal article by Jane House; Western European Stages, Vol. 20, 2008
Subjects: Aeschylus (522-456 BC), Carriglio, Peitro, London England, Maestrini, Pierfrancesco, Musical theater, Puccini, Giacomo
...Mafia Bureau. Further explorations of Sicily included a traveling circus, touring the breathtaking Valley of the Temples in Agrigento, and viewing the marvelous mosaics on the floors of a Roman villa at Piazza Armerina. Sicily is indeed an island full of...
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Shouting Very Loudly: Economics, Planning and Politics1
Journal article by Alan W. Evans; The Town Planning Review, Vol. 74, 2003
Subjects: Costs, Houses, Land use, Market economies, Prices, Urban planning
...proportion of new houses that are abusivi is relatively low in the north, and tends to increase the further south one goes. In Agrigento, on the south coast of Sicily, the proportion of houses that are abusivi reaches 80 per cent. Why planning controls and...
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Baroque Disruptions in Val Di Noto, Sicily
Journal article by Thomas J. Puleo; The Geographical Review, Vol. 100, 2010
Subjects: Architecture, Baroque--History, Architecture, Baroque--Protection and preservation, Baroque architecture--History, Baroque architecture--Protection and preservation, Earthquakes--History, Earthquakes--Italy, Earthquakes--Social aspects, Foreign investments--Social aspects, Serres, Michel--Works, Sicily--Economic aspects, Sicily--Environmental aspects, Sicily--Social aspects
...historical identity into a single hybridized body to be valued and defended. Andrea Camilleri, the popular mystery writer from Agrigento, entered the fight, which La Repubblica cast as a single paired conflict: "Commissioner Montalbano versus the Texans...
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Teaching with Technology -- Digital Slides
Journal article by David F. Lancy; College Teaching, Vol. 47, 1999
Subjects: College Teaching
...an opportunity to tour many of the sites of ancient civilization I would be teaching about, from Aleppo to Abu Simbel to Agrigento. I returned from sabbatical in July 1996 and immediately began the process, which is still on-going, of creating digital...
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A Chorus of Disapproval: Conserving Classical Theatres
Magazine article by John Carr; History Today, Vol. 46, January 1996
Subjects: Architecture, Ancient--Usage, Theaters--Usage, Travel industry--Environmental aspects
...prerogative of the harlot. But is it any worse than the tragi-comical treatment of the seating at Eraclea Minoa, a theatre near Agrigento in Sicily? Here the architectural insensitivities extend to the provision of moulded plastic benches (complete with bench...
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Cultural Extremes: Prepare to Be Inspired-And Surprised-As Rough Guide Authors Samantha Cook and Greg Ward Introduce Some of the Biggest, Longest and, of Course, Oldest Sites of Historical Interest from around the World
Magazine article by Samantha Cook, Greg Ward; Geographical, Vol. 76, April 2004
...unique for its 37 rooms floored with exquisite mosaics, Phoenician Motya and the classical sites of Segesta, Selinunte, Agrigento and Siracusa--plus, on the mainland, Paestum, Pompeii, Herculaneum and the incredible "Bronzes of Riace." MAY 29...
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The Personal Holocaust of a Sicilian Fisherman: The Sea around the Southern Tip of Italy Is Full of the Skeletons of Asylum-Seekers
Magazine article by Hilary Clarke; New Statesman, Vol. 131, October 14, 2002
Subjects: Illegal aliens--Laws, regulations, etc., Refugees--Laws, regulations, etc., Scala, Corrado
...retrieve from the bottom of the sea. On a stormy night a month after Scalas arrest, diners at La Playa beach restaurant near Agrigento spotted two black teenagers, one male and one female, staggering across the stretch of beach alongside the restaurant...
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The Rise and Fall of Empires: The Role of Surplus Extraction
Magazine article by Harold Perkin; History Today, Vol. 52, April 2002
Subjects: Societies--History
...personal service, private transport, and bodyguards. The palaces of the Roman, Chinese or Russian emperors at Capri and Agrigento, the Forbidden City and Summer Palace, and the Hermitage and Tsarskoe-Selo, far removed from their public functions...
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Stink Vessels: Charles Stephenson Introduces a Plan for Chemical Warfare in the Napoleonic Navy, Devised by Thomas Cochrane, Lord Dundonald, the Model for Patrick O'Brien's Jack Aubrey
Magazine article by Charles Stephenson; History Today, Vol. 56, November 2006
Subjects: Chemical warfare--History, Cochrane, Thomas--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Cochrane, Thomas--Innovations, Naval officers--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Naval officers--Innovations, Navies--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Navies--Innovations, Navies--Officials and employees, Sulfur dioxide--Usage
...off the defenders. The idea of using the products of burning sulphur as a weapon came to him while on a visit to Girgenti (Agrigento) in Sicily in March 1811. There he witnessed the collateral effects of sulphur manufacture, one of the principal industries...
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In the Lap of the Gods ... and the Godfathers; JEWELS: The 900-Year-Old Mosaics at Palermo's Palatine Chapel A TASTE OF THE PAST: The Ruins of the Temple of Hera at Agrigento. Left: Dymphna, Second Left, and Some of Her Group Enjoy an Ice Cream in Palermo
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), February 8, 2009
Subjects: Ice cream, Ice cream, ices, etc.
...The Ruins of the Temple of Hera at Agrigento. Left: Dymphna, Second Left, and...sites of Sicily and why the temples of Agrigento are high on their list. Built by 30...poor and threadbare, others such as Agrigento, Syracuse, Palermo and Cefalu buzz...
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Great Food,shame about the Mafiosi
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), July 14, 1996
...side, at Taormina, and three nights in Agrigento, right over the other side, on the...thought, were the four Greek temples at Agrigento, which are neither hugely big, nor...just about the only thing there is in Agrigento - and I had three nights there. You...
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Sicily Etna, Palermo, Siracusa, Taormina; Eight Days from Only [Pounds Sterling
Newspaper article; August 5, 2010
Subjects: Hotels and motels
...Catania. On arrival you transfer to Agrigento and to the four-star-rated hotel...located approximately three miles from Agrigento, where you stay for three nights dinner...archaeological museum. You then visit Agrigento itself, awash with medieval atmosphere...
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Sicily Etna, Palermo, Siracusa, Taormina; Eight Days from Only [Pounds Sterling]799pp
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), January 20, 2011
...to Catania, where youll transfer to Agrigento and stay for three nights B B at either...located approximately three miles from Agrigento, or the four-star Hotel Della Valle...archaeological museum. You then visit Agrigento - awash with medieval atmosphere, narrow...
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Sicily, Etna, Palermo, Siracusa, Taormina; Eight Days from Only [Pounds Sterling]799pp
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), September 23, 2011
...the four-star rated hotel Kaos In Agrigento, set in its own grounds, located approximately three miles from Agrigento, where you stay for three nights...archaeological museum. You then visit Agrigento itself, awash with medieval atmosphere...
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encyclopedia articles on: Agrigento  - 9 results

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Agrigento
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
AGRIGENTO agrejan to, Lat. Agrigentum, city (1991 pop. 55,283), capital of Agrigento prov., S Sicily, Italy, on a hill above...Second Punic War. After the fall of Rome, Agrigento passed to the Byzantines and then to the Arabs...
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Sicily
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...which is divided into the provinces of Agrigento, Caltanisetta, Catania, Enna, Messina...founded such cities as Acragas (now Agrigento ) and Himera . Their originally democratic...been found on Sicily, especially at Agrigento, Syracuse, Segesta, and Selinunte...
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Pindar
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...traveled widely, staying for some time at Athens and in Sicily at the court of Hiero I at Syracuse and also at Acragas (modern Agrigento). His chief medium was the choral lyric, and he set the standard for the triumphal ode or epinicion. Of his complete works...
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Atlantes
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...or pier. The earliest (c.480 460 b.c.) and most important example from antiquity is in the Greek temple of Zeus at Agrigento, Sicily. The baroque architecture of the 17th cent. made considerable use of atlantes, as did the classical revival in...
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Gela
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...688 b.c. by Greek colonists from Crete and Rhodes and soon flourished, founding (c.580 b.c.) Acragas (the later Agrigento ). It attained its greatest prosperity under the tyrants Hippocrates and Gelon in the 5th cent. b.c. However, the city...
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