Ancient Greek migrants in Sicily produced societies and economies that paralleled and differed from their homeland. Since the nineteenth century explanations for this have been heavily debated. This book is the first to gather the historical and archaeological evidence and to deploy it to test the various historical models proposed. Anglophone readers with a general interest in Greek Sicily are wellserved by this book, which summarises recent work, much of it in Italian, and offers an update to the first eight chapters of Moses Finley's classic, Ancient Sicily (2nd ed. 1979)