Agrigento: Archaeology of an Ancient City. Urban Form, Sacred and Civil Spaces, Productions, Territory

The archaeological research in Agrigento has undergone a new and important impulse thanks to a new collaboration between the Archaeological Park "Valley of the
Temples" and many Italian and European universities, who have worked side by side on
shared projects and excavations. This volume aims to be a synthesis of the most
recent research carried out in the various sectors of the ancient city, but also a
testimony of a correct way of proceeding, in which different universities and
management, protection and research structures actively collaborate in the search
for a common vision of such an important city of Antiquity as Agrigento, which,
until a few years ago was isolated and little known in the research community,
except for the famous Hill of the Temples. Agrigento now displays an unprecedented
richness in archaeological research: the various aspects of the social,
architectural and economic life of the ancient city now emerge with greater clarity,
as well as the urban spaces, its sanctuaries, housing estates, production sites, but
also the agricultural management of the chora and the extra-urban territory in an
overall vision of the city which, although still partly incomplete, produces one of
the few complex syntheses of the life of a city in ancient Sicily.