The technical information regarding dies and metals is precise while the knowledgeably original valuation of the phytomorphic and theriomorphic categories, overlooked until then, is constant. Coins are also related to auctores in the section dedicated to Greek Italy, forming 'signs' of the mos graecum, saved through the historicus' actions from the dark silence of centuries and returned to the memory. When communicating memory of the past, coins represent the documents of a lost world, to be re-discovered and connected with literary sources, a link between the past and present. The first and foremost of these is Siracusa, but also Elymian and Punic locations, the sequence of which complies with contiguity-based criteria, in the presentation of a coherent cultural itinerary which unwinds for the humanist reader-viator. The section dedicated to Sicily opens with detailed plates and numerous pages dedicated to reconstruction of the history of the island's ancient cities. In the title, Goltzius expresses the already age-old separation of Greek Sicily from Megale Hellas, together with the theorisation regarding the Sicans' precedence as settlers, forefathers of the bloodline of the Hapsburgs of Spain and of Phillip II to whom the work is dedicated, a precedence supported by the auctoritas of Thucydides. Sicilia et Magna Graecia is the first and only volume of a project dedicated to the coinage and history of the Greek population at a time when the appreciated and desired subject matter, especially by the Empire and Papacy was the Roman world, and not the Greek world. PAPER - ABSTRACT HUBERTUS GOLTZIUS, TOTIUS ANTIQUITATIS RESTAURATOR: NUMISMATICS AND ANCIENT HISTORY IN SICILIA ET MAGNA GRAECIA (1576) Hubertus Goltzius' work is the first example of a scientific approach to ancient numismatics in the broad perspective of antiquitatis restaurator.
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