M. Bennett and A.J. Paul (eds.), in collaboration with M. Iozzo and B.M. White, photographer Magna Graecia. Greek Art from South Italy and Sicily

2006 ◽  
pp. 480-481
Keyword(s):  
South Italy ◽  
Magna Graecia ◽  
Greek Art

Sicily and Magna Graecia (South Italy)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Hornblower
Keyword(s):  
Southern Italy ◽  
Third Century ◽  
Recent Event ◽  
South Italy ◽  
Magna Graecia ◽  
Western Sicily

The Alexandra is full of allusions to and whole sections about south Italy and to a lesser extent Sicily. This makes it likely that the poet came from southern Italy. Eastern Sicily hardly features, despite the ancient glories of its Greek cities. But western Sicily was important in Lykophron’s time for kinship reasons to do with the supposed Trojan origins of Elymian cities like Egesta and Eryx, whose support Rome needed in the mid-third-century BC: Troy was the mythical mother-city of Rome. In Italy, many places prominent in the poem (especially Croton and its neighbours) also featured in the ancient histories of the war against Hannibal, a recent event in 190 BC, and of Roman colonization policies of the 190s.

scholarly journals Um planejamento ortogonal guliveriano: uma leitura modular da Túrio do período clássico

Tempo ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Renan Falcheti Peixoto ◽  
Maria Beatriz Borba Florenzano
Keyword(s):  
Main Argument ◽  
South Italy ◽  
Urban Plan ◽  
Compositional Structure ◽  
Magna Graecia ◽  
Modular Unit ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract: This paper uses the Gulliverian metaphor to examine the organization of a well-known Classical orthogonal planning in Magna Graecia, south Italy. After observing the relationship between the elements of the urban grid of Thourioi, we will propose the application of a modular unit formed by the sum of ten Attic feet by the geometer of its urban plan. According to our main argument here, this module orientated the land-measurement of Thourioi by co-measuring the width of ithe roadway network and width/length of blocks, lots, and “major rectangles”. Furthermore, certain alignments in its planning are physically established, as it will be demonstrated in the case of its major roads. Thourioi calls forth through its compositional structure of older formulas a wider horizon of orthogonal planning tradition, an ancient scansion rhythm reified in archaeological patterns of many Greek Western foundations since the VIII century BC.

Minting Identity: Coinage, Ideology and the Economics of Colonization in Akhaina Magna Graecia

2002 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
John K. Papadopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Archaic Period ◽  
South Italy ◽  
Magna Graecia ◽  
The World ◽  
Abstract Notion ◽  
Social Orders ◽  
The Bronze Age

This article focuses on the early coinage of the Akhaian cities of South Italy — Sybaris, Kroton, Metapontion, Kaulonia, Poseidonia — against the backdrop of colonization. Minting an early and distinctive series of coins, these centres were issuing coinage well before their ‘mother-cities’, a phenomenon that has never been fully appreciated. With its origins in a colonial context, the Akhaian coinage of Magna Graecia not only differs from that of the early coin-minting states of the Greek mainland, it offers a case study that challenges long-held assumptions and potentially contributes to a better understanding of the origins of coinage. It does so by suggesting that coinage is much more than a symbol of authority and represents considerably more than just an abstract notion of sovereignty or hegemony. The images or emblems that the Akhaians of South Italy chose for their coins are those current in the contemporary cultural landscape of the historic Akhaians, but at the same time actively recall the world of the heroic Akhaians of the Bronze Age by referring to prehistoric measures of value. More than his, the vicissitudes of colonial and indigenous history in parts of South Italy in the Archaic period were not merely reflected in coinage, the coins themselves were central to the processes of transformation. By boldly minting — constructing — their identity on coinage, the Akhaians of South Italy chose money in order to create relations of dominance and to produce social orders that had not existed before.

scholarly journals Historical archaeology in Magna Graecia: From an American perspective to the Greek colonization in South Italy

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 275-297
Author(s):  
Airton Pollini
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Historical Archaeology ◽  
White Male ◽  
Archaeological Remains ◽  
South Italy ◽  
Magna Graecia ◽  
American Perspective ◽  
American Society ◽  
Greek Colonization

The historical archaeology approach was forged for the study of the American society after the European conquest of colonial lands in the new continent. Interested in the comparison between material culture and written records, it was opposed to Prehistory and Anthropology with their methods of inquiry. Its main proposal is to use all available data, material and written, independently, without any hierarchy, but in close comparison. As such, this perspective studies the archaeology of individuals “without history”, such as Natives, slaves, women, or even the African diasporas in America, in antagonism to the white male European colonist. Issued from an explicit postcolonial background, this approach may give an important contribution to the study of other ancient societies where interpretations are based on discussions between archaeological remains and texts, such as the Greek colonial communities in Magna Graecia.  

Some Cave Chapels of Southern Italy

1930 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 186-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gertrude Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Southern Italy ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
South Italy ◽  
Magna Graecia ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Punic Wars

There are few things in history more illusive and at the same time more persistent than the tradition that the Hellenistic language and culture did not cease to be part of the life of Southern Italy when Magna Graecia ceased to be anything but the shadow of a great name. It is a fact that the Hellenism of South Italy has a habit of being lost sight of. It hides itself, as it were, from the end of the Punic wars till the time of Justinian. After the end of the Byzantine domination it again burrows into the earth, and it is only now when it is indeed disappearing that we begin to realise that it has been there all the time. There have always been signs of its presence for those who will look for them.

Archaeological Discoveries in Sicily and Magna Graecia

1937 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 238-246
Author(s):  
Umberto Zanotti-Bianco
Keyword(s):  
Large Collection ◽  
Similar Material ◽  
Railway Station ◽  
South Italy ◽  
Geometric Patterns ◽  
Magna Graecia ◽  
Knife Blade ◽  
The Hill ◽  
Painted Pottery

This year again funds and labour have been scarce, and little work has been done by the archaeological departments for South Italy, except in Campania. Most of the finds have been made accidentally during operations of the Bonifica or of road-making.In the basin of the river Gela, where the Bonifica was levelling the gorge of Mt. Dessueri for a dam, workmen reported the discovery of a Sicel site. The cemetery had already been found and illustrated by P. Orsi (NdS 1903, Mon Ant 21). The Department has preserved, among other finds (NdS 1937, 368), a jug with vase-spout containing a filter, the tall foot of a one-handled cup, some fragments of decorated bowls, and, among the bronze material, two axe-heads, a knife-blade, and a spear-head. These recall similar material found by Orsi in the cemeteries of Mt. Dessueri, Mt. Finocchito and Pantalica, and date the site to the second Sicel period.In April 1937 the Sicilian Dept., financed by the Commune of Agrigento, practically completed its prehistoric excavations of the hill of Serraferlicchio above the old railway station, which were successfully started by Orsi and continued later by P. Marconi. It is one of the oldest sites of West Sicily; Orsi had acutely divined the importance of the region, and by 1928 the museum at Syracuse had been enriched by a large collection of painted pottery, of novel shape, with bold and complex geometric patterns.

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