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I volti del sacro nella Segesta elima: spazi, riti, oggetti
2022
Si pubblicano in questa sede i testi dei pannelli esplicativi della mostra "I volti del sacro nella Segesta elima: spazi, riti, oggetti" inaugurata il 14 luglio 2021 al Parco Archeologico di Segesta nelle nuove sale espositive dello “Stazzo”. La mostra illustra la vita religiosa del centro elimo, raccontata attraverso le recenti acquisizioni sulle aree cultuali segestane (VI-V sec. a.C.), frutto di ‘scavi’ effettuati nei magazzini del Parco, dove sono conservati i numerosissimi reperti, per lo più inediti, delle vecchie ricerche - compiute da Vincenzo Tusa negli anni ’50-’60 del secolo scorso - al cosiddetto scarico di Grotta Vanella (pertinenti ad un’area sacra collocata sulla cima del Mo…
Evolution of the forest landscape in the Punic Eparchy area (West Sicily): the importance of cork oak in natural residual vegetation for the purposes…
2018
The natural forest vegetation in the territory of the western provinces of Sicily (Palermo, Trapani and Agrigento) has almost completely disappeared. This area coincides with the ancient administrative ter- ritorial unit that precedes the division into three "valleys" of the most inhabited island of the Mediterranean: it is the Val di Mazara, remembered by archaeologists as "Punic Eparchy". As a seat of important Greek cities (Himera, Solunto, Entella, Agrigento, Gela, Eraclea Minoa, Segesta, Selinunte, Erice, Lilibeo, Mozia, etc.), it was a Punic domain before being abandoned. Due to the lack of a marked relief and the benefit of climate, agriculture was practiced for three millennia. In t…
« Rien dans les mains, rien dans les poches ». Louis Gernet e Jean-Pierre Vernant e lo studio della tirannide in Grecia
2022
The article aims both at exploring the contribution of L. Gernet and J.-P. Vernant to the study of tyranny in Greece and at reconstructing the intellectual and academic context in which these considerations were developed. These two scholars devoted only a couple of short essays to that topic, managing to trace the behavioural patterns of the Greek tyrants in the mythical past. The results that they reached and the approach they applied to the ancient sources arose a wide debate and had a considerable impact on the later studies on the tyranny.
La chora e i notabili di Iasos in epoca ellenistico-romana. A proposito di un libro (e di uno studio) recente su Chalketor e Iasos
2017
L'analisi di una recente monografia storico-epigrafica di Thibaut Boulay e Anne-Valérie Pont su Chalketor di Caria (2014) e di uno studio della stessa Pont sui proprietari terrieri di Iasos (2016) offre l'occasione per discutere alcuni aspetti riguardanti la chora di Iasos e l'appartenenza del villaggio di Chalketor a questo territorio, l'attribuzione di Iasos ai distretti giudiziari (conventus, dioikeseis) di Mylasa e quindi di Alabanda all'interno della provincia Asia, il ruolo politico e socio-economico dei notabili iasei e l'ascesa di alcuni di essi alla classe senatoria. The analysis of a recent historical-epigraphical monograph on Chalketor of Caria (2014) by Thibaut Boulay and Anne-V…
Pettazzoni e Rohde su Agamennone e Clitemestra: il “maschalismòs” e l’opzione comparativa
2021
For Greek lexicographers, the verb 'maschalisthenai', which appears only in Aeschylus and Sophocles, refers to certain details of the murder of Agamemnon by his wife Clytemnestra.The ancient tradition on "maschalismos" has become in the modern age a bone of contention among scholars around the study of Greek religion, in particular concerning the relationship with death and the underworld. This contribution examines the different interpretations of "maschalismos" proposed by Erwin Rohde and Raffaele Pettazzoni and their different perspectives on the comparison.
La Sicilia fra Cartagine e Roma
2016
The aim is to point out the salient stages that led to a momentous change of the whole history of Greek Sic- ily. After a period, started within the VIth century BC, in which the preferred interlocutor of the Siceliots was Carthage, regarded by some Greek cities as a trustworthy international partner and by other cities as a “danger” to fight with and that should have been cancelled, if possible, the Greek-Punic relationship had known for a long time of the Vth century BC a moment of blackout. At the end of this period, lasted nearly seventy years, the North-African city had turned to be interested in Sicily within a deeply changed international context. Even the attitude of Carthage toward…
L’exemplum del Dinomenide Gelone tra memoria civica e storiografica
2015
La storia della Sicilia greca è scandita, nei suoi momenti chiave, dalla persistente presenza dell’immagine del Dinomenide Gelone. Questo lavoro analizza le valenze paradigmatiche assunte dalla sua figura nella memoria civica siracusana e nella produzione storiografica; inoltre ricostruisce le dinamiche politiche che hanno spinto i principali tiranni siracusani (da Dionisio I a Ierone II) a stabilire un confronto con Gelone. Il suo exemplum è utilizzato per legittimare azioni politiche e impegno antipunico; particolare attenzione è posta alla Biblioteca storica di Diodoro Siculo e al ruolo che in essa assume la figura del Dinomenide; in relazione a questi aspetti l’opera dell’Agirinense sem…
Cultura materiale e organizzazione degli spazi domestici
2008
The paper examines in detail the functioning of the houses of ancient Himera on the basis of access analysis and findings of each domestic unity
Which Dioskouroi? On some Locrian pinakes with music-themed iconography
2016
The paper considers an iconographic type attested to in a series of Locrian pinakes, showing twins on horseback (one of which has a lyra eptacorde, the other a kantharos) in front of a female figure (type 8/35: ASMG S. IV, III, 5, fig. 34); this is considered a variant of a more common type with the Dioscuri on horseback with shield and phiale accompanied by a woman (Elena, Aphrodite or nubenda?). Without prejudice to the identity of the pair of twins, it was found that the variant would intend to emphasize a particular aspect of the male world personified by the Spartan Dioscuroi, namely the paideutic role of music for the male party of the nuptial rituals (recently, summarized in A. Belli…
Ricerche nel Santuario di Contrada Mango a Segesta
2022
Between June and July 2022, the University of Palermo started new feld investigations in the Contrada Mango sanctuary in Segesta, which, in the 1950s and 1960s, had brought to light a monumental temenos-terracing wall in isodomic technique and the remains of a Doric Severe-Style peripteral temple, largely spoliated at an unknown period. This paper presents some preliminary results of the new research that results from an intensive review and study of the documentation of the old excavations, which isabout to be published. The most important data acquired are the identifcation of the spoliation trench of the north side of the peristasis of the temple and the attribution of the foundations su…