CONTENTS 6
SOMMAIRE 7
Introduction -Sophie Collin Bouffier 9
AROUND THE HISTORIAN AND HIS HISTORICAL METHOD 19
Pascale Giovannelli-Jouanna, Mythic Sicily, historic Sicily: Sicily in Diodorus’ Universal History 21
Renaud Robert, Diodorus and the mythico-historical patrimony of Sicily 43
DIODORUS AND THE HISTORY OF SICILY 69
Sophie Collin Bouffier, Diodorus of Sicily as witness of the Vth century B.C.: a golden Age for Sicily? 71
Nicola Cusumano, Managing hate, creating the enemy. Greeks and Carthaginians in Sicily between the Vth and IVth century B.C. 113
Aude Cohen-Skalli, The evidence of Diodorus of Sicily on two Elymian cities: Segesta and Eryx (VIth and Vth century B.C.) 137
Sandra Péré-Noguès, Diodorus of Sicily and the Sikels: history and/or memory of an «ethnos» and of its hero Douketios 155
Sylvie Pittia, Diodorus and the history of Republican Sicily 171