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L'identità delle popolazioni anelleniche d'Occidente nel Peri Italias di Antioco di Siracusa

2021

Dealing with the origins of the populations settled in southern Italy and eastern Sicily Antiochus focuses on the theme of the autochthony of the Oenotrians, as well as other ethne originated from those, such as Italoi, Sicels and Morgetes. This can be especially inferred by the narrative context of fragment 2 (Jacoby), reported by Dionysius of Halicarnassus. The sketchy reference to the Italic Archaeology made by Antiochus, who mentions the Oenotrians as the oldest people in Italy, contrasts with traditions absorbed into Pherecydes’ work, according to which the Oenotrians were an ethnos of a distant Arcadian kinship, descending from the eponymous Lycaon, son of Oenotrus. Antiochus’ portray…