ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1990.
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Paestum: Greeks and Romans in Southern Italy / John Griffiths Pedley


London 1990. Tvrd povez, zaštitni omot, ilustrovano, engleski jezik, veći format, 184 strane .
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Paestum presents an archaeological history of one of the best-preserved Classical cities of the ancient world. Founded by the Greeks in about 600 BC and well known today for its magnificent Greek temples and wall-paintings, the city fell into the hands of indigenous peoples around 400 BC, and under the sway of expansionist Rome in 273 BC. Loyal to Rome throughout the Carthaginian wars, the city flourished in the years of the Roman Republic; but isolation from new trade routes and severe environmental problems led to a slow decline under the Empire. When the remnants of the population at last fled the malaria-ridden plain in the ninth century AD, the city lapsed into obscurity.

The literary sources, both Greek and Latin, are mute; the archaeology is all important. Drawing on the results of recent excavations, Professor Pedley describes the city in the sixth century, including the great temples and sanctuary at the mouth of the river Sele. The fifth century is distinguished by its new temple (the largest of the three), the painted Tomb of the Diver, and the recently identified agora and council chamber, while the fourth century saw the arrival of indigenous Lucanians, the painting of richly decorated tombs and the final flowering of Greek vase-painting. With the appearance of the Romans, forum, comitium, temple and gymnasium were soon in place, followed by amphitheatre and treasury. An important chapter addresses new excavations undertaken by the author and Italian colleagues outside the south wall of the city which have revealed a sanctuary of the goddess Aphrodite/Venus, lavishly repaired by two aristocratic women, Sabina and Valeria, in Roman times. In conclusion, Professor Pedley describes Paestum`s decline, disappearance and ultimate rediscovery, an event which helped ignite the great mid-eighteenth-century Doric Revival and inspire artists and scholars such as Piranesi and Winckelmann.




Sadržaj:
General Editor`s Foreword
Preface
Introduction

Early history
The Monuments
Later history
Excavations
Recent archaeological work

1 THE GREEK WESTWARD EXPANSION
Precursors
Revival in the East
The Westward Movement
Early Buildings
Early Neighbours
Sybaris

2 POSEIDONIA: THE SIXTH-CENTURY CITY
Early Settlers
Geology
The Harbour
The Town plan
Cemeteries
The Underground Shrine
Trade and Coinage
Votives

3 THE SIXTH-CENTURY TEMPLES
The Basilica
Other Structures nearby
Whose Temple was it?
The Temple of Athena
Other Monuments and the later Temple

4 THE SANCTUARY AT THE MOUTH OF THE RIVER SELE
Sources and Location
Minor Monuments
The Treasury and its Metopes
The Temple and its Metopes
Votives
Later events

5 POSEIDONIA IN THE FIFTH CENTURY
Walls and Gates
Agora and Bouleuterion
Temple of Hera II
Votives and other monuments
Extramural Sanctuaries
The Tomb of the Diver
Cemeteries

6 THE LUCANIAN CONQUEST AND ITS AFTERMATH
The Arrival
The Territory
Sanctuaries and cemeteries
Tomb paintings
Grave goods
Alexander the Molossian
Vase painting

7 ROMAN PAESTUM
The Colony
The Forum
Forum Dependencies
Town Plan and Housing
Sanctuaries and Cemeteries

8 THE SANCTUARY AT SANTA VENERA
Excavation and setting
The Oikos
The South Building
The West Wing
The Rectangular Hall
The Piscina
The Divinity

9 DECLINE, DISAPPEARANCE AND DISCOVERY
Late Antiquity
The Middle Ages
Disappearance
Discovery

Visiting Paestum
Bibliography
List of Illustrations
Index