Beschreibung
The early tyranny in ancient Sicily is known to us mainly through literary and epigraphic sources. This technical article deals with a more recent research approach that has become possible thanks to advances in numismatic research and various new finds over the past two decades. By systematically recording the coinage and all coins found that are associated with the Emmenids of Akragas, it was possible to work out distribution, nominal systems and motif paradigms, which also provided new insights into the relevance of the early tyrants in Sicily. A methodologically and thematically contemporary ancient historical study of the Sicily of the Emmenids and Deinomenids in the fifth century BC.
