: But now he is not a Sicilian — he is a Boian, he has got a Boian woman.

" Samuel Butler argues, based on literary observations, that a young Sicilian woman wrote the Odyssey ( but not the Iliad ), an idea further pursued by Robert Graves in his novel Homer's Daughter and Andrew Dalby in Rediscovering Homer.

In Roman mythology, Acestes or Egestes ( Greek ) was the son of the Sicilian river-god Crinisus by a Dardanian or Trojan woman named Egesta or Segesta.

* In the novel The Godfather, " being hit with the thunderbolt " is a Sicilian expression referring to a man being spellbound at the sight of a beautiful woman.

The Tuscan Liber turns the rape story around, suggesting the Sicilian woman had pulled a knife on her French suitor when his friends came to aid him.

What distinguishes the Sicilian School from the troubadours, however, is the introduction of a kinder, gentler type of woman than that found in their French models ; one who was nearer to Dante's madonnas and Petrarch's Laura, though much less characterised psychologically.

* Mark Bluvshtein vs Irina Krush, New York Generation Chess International 2003, Sicilian Defence, Richter-Rauzer Variation ( B66 ), 1-0 Bluvshtein defeats one of the world's best young woman players.

Apollonia, a beautiful Sicilian woman, meets Michael Corleone shortly after he arrives in Sicily.

In interviews made before his 2009 death, Woolfson said he planned to release one track from the " Sicilian " album, which in 2008 appeared as a bonus track on a CD re-issue of the Eve album.

Apart from financial, administrative and artistical improvements, his other accomplishments in the Sicilian kingdom include the restoration of the aqueducts, the drainage of marshy areas, and the pavement of streets.

Andronikos hastily assembled five different armies to stop the Sicilian army from reaching Constantinople, but none of these five smaller armies would stand against the Sicilian forces and retreated to the outlying hills.

The Sicilian historian Diodorus Siculus, writing in the 1st century BC in his Bibliotheca Historica, also provides an account of the Greco-Persian wars, partially derived from the earlier Greek historian Ephorus.

For example, one might read that Corsican is a " central southern Italian dialect " along with Tuscan, Neapolitan, Sicilian and others or that it is " closely related to the Tuscan dialect of Italian ,", an infelicitous claim in that Italian is derived from Tuscan rather than the reverse.

Another possibility is that Rome received technical assistance from its seafaring Sicilian ally, Syracuse.

A somewhat disinterested treatment of the emotional subject and painstaking attention to the throne and other details of the material world distinguish this work by a medieval Sicily | Sicilian master from works by imperial icon-painters of Constantinople.

He bigamously married Adelaide del Vasto, regent of Sicily, in 1113, but was convinced to divorce her as well in 1117 ; Adelaide's son from her first marriage, Roger II of Sicily, never forgave Jerusalem, and for decades withheld much-needed Sicilian naval support.

About half of the vocabulary is borrowed from standard Italian and Sicilian ; English words make up between 6 % and 20 % of the Maltese vocabulary, according to different estimates ( see below ).

Maltese is a Semitic language descended from Siculo-Arabic, that in the course of its history has been influenced by Sicilian and Italian, to a lesser extent French, and more recently English.

Malta has two official languages -- Maltese ( a Semitic language derived from Siculo-Arabic and heavily influenced by Sicilian and Italian ), and English.

Rome could use Sicilian markets, Carthage could buy and sell goods at Rome, and slaves taken by Carthage from allies of Rome were to be set free.

The imperfect rhymes of u with closed o and i with closed e ( inherited from Guittone's mistaken rendering of Sicilian verse ) are excluded, but the rhyme of open and closed o is kept.

Sicilian affairs required immediate attention from the new Pope.

Although the full story was described by Ovid, it was also mentioned by Philoxenus and Theocritus, and in Valerius Flaccus ' version of Argonautica, among the themes painted on the Argos, " Cyclops from the Sicilian shore calls Galatea back.

Upon arriving, he raised up a force from several Sicilian cities, and went to the relief of Syracuse.

On 3 May 1241, a combined fleet of Pisan and Sicilian ships, led by the Emperor's son Enzo, attacked a Genoese convoy carrying prelates from Northern Italy and France, next to the Isola del Giglio, in front of Tuscany: the Genoese lost 25 ships, while about thousand sailors, two cardinals and one bishop were taken prisoner.

The Syracusans enlisted the aid of a general from Sparta, Athens ' foe in the war, to defeat the Athenians, destroy their ships, and leave them to starve on the island ( see Sicilian Expedition ).

* In an effort to blockade Sparta from access to Sicilian corn, Athens responds to a plea for help from a delegation from the city of Leontini led by Gorgias, the sophist and rhetorician.

For example, he told Enzo Ferrari after he got a ticket for a journey home from the Sicilian Targa Florio " What a strange businessman you are.

Palermo (, Sicilian: Palermu,, from, Panormos,, Balarm ; Phoenician: ז ִ יז, Ziz ) is a city in Insular Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Province of Palermo.

– 2 November 1687 ), minor Spanish dramatist of the school of Calderón, was the son of a Portuguese mother and a Sicilian merchant of Greek parentage who came to Madrid some time before 1631.

He also pioneered two provocative variations of the Sicilian Defence: the Nimzowitsch Variation, 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nf6, which invites 3. e5 Nd5 ( similar to Alekhine's Defence ) and 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 d5?!

There are also many smaller film festivals in the United States, such as the Stony Brook Film Festival in Long Island, New York, the Northwest Filmmakers ' Festival, or the Sicilian Film Festival in Miami, Florida, which do not charge entry fees ; however, acceptance of films is usually more limited, and such film festivals do not necessarily attract big names in their audiences like Sundance and Telluride do.

Kasparov with black chose the Berlin Defence instead of his usual Sicilian and Polgár proceeded with a line which Kasparov has used himself.

In his documentary, Il Mio Viaggio in Italia, Scorsese noted that the Sicilian episode of Roberto Rossellini's Paisà which he first saw on television alongside his relatives, who were themselves Sicilian immigrants, made a significant impact on his life.

The Pope, however, did not live long enough to complete these negotiations, which finally resulted in a peaceful settlement of the Aragonese as well as the Sicilian question in 1302 under Pope Boniface VIII.

Sicilian coined the modern word " macaroni ", which is making kneaded durum wheat by force.

The Arabs also introduced many agricultural items which remain a mainstay of Sicilian cuisine.

The reduced importance of agriculture in the Sicilian economy had led to a massive migration to the cities, especially Palermo, which swelled in size.

The result was the uprising known as the Sicilian Vespers, which was initiated in Palermo on 29 March 1282.

Studies have revealed that these rocks comprise the upper Unit of a pile of thrust sheets which dominate the Apennines and the Sicilian Maghrebides.

The growing industrial and commercial activity of Milazzo and its area, has traced the movement of the port which now holds second place among the Sicilian ports for moving freight and passenger movements for the first place.

Sicilian cuisine shows traces of all the cultures which established themselves on the island of Sicily over the last two millennia.

More typical Sicilian drinks are the limoncello, a lemon liqueur, and the Amaro Siciliano, a herbal drink, which is often consumed after meals as a digestive.

The period of prosperity which follows, and is consolidated during the course of his reign, ends with the domination of the Angevins and the rebellion of the Sicilians culminating in the revolt of the Sicilian Vespers.

The date of its foundation cannot be precisely fixed, as Thucydides indicates it only by reference to that of the Sicilian Megara, which is itself not accurately known, but it may be placed about 628 BCE.

The survivors took refuge on the Sicilian coast and founded a new town which they called Lilybaion (" Lilybaeum " in latin ), " The town which looks at Lybia "( at the time the whole African coast was referred to as Lybia ).

This resulted in a rebellion by Sicilian Muslims, which in turn triggered organized resistance and systematic reprisals and marked the final chapter of Islam in Sicily.

Mazara del Vallo ( Sicilian: Mazzara ) is a town and comune in southwestern Sicily, Italy, which lies mainly on the left bank at the mouth of the Mazaro river, administratively part of the province of Trapani.

Monreale ( Sicilian: Murriali ) is a town and comune in the province of Palermo, in Sicily, Italy, on the slope of Monte Caputo, overlooking the very fertile valley called " La Conca d ' oro " ( the Golden Shell ), famed for its orange, olive and almond trees, the produce of which is exported in large quantities.

It was one of the points occupied and fortified by the former, when preparing for the defence of the Sicilian straits, but was taken by Agrippa after his naval victory at Mylae, and became one of his chief posts, from which he carried on offensive warfare against Pompey.

the medieval Sardinian Gamurra later become Barracelli, the Sicilian Vendicatori and the Beati Paoli ), a type of early vigilante organization, which became extremely powerful in Westphalian Germany during the 15th century.