Figured iconography on pottery from Pithekoussai : insights into a local interactive identity
The thesis deals with figured iconography on pottery of approximately the second balf of the eighth century BC (the so-called 'Euboean period'), produced at the site ofpjthekoussai on the island oflschia in the Bay of Naples. Ancient testimonia on the origin of the settlers and the history of the site mainly come from Strabo and Livy, both writing in the time of the Emperor Augustus. Strabo (5.4.9) mentions that the site was once inhabited by Eretrians and ChaLcidians, and that the island suffered from volcanic eruptions and earthquakes. Livy (8.22.5-6) says that tbe founders of Cumae' were from Euboean Chalcis: after landing on Aenaria and Pithekoussai, they de.cided to take their chance on tbe mainland. The differences between these accounts may be related to the different sources from wbich each writer drew his information - Strabo from tbe fourth-century historian Ephorus and Livy from Timaeus who was writing at about 300 BC. The study focuses on ~ethodological issues in the study of figured iconography arising from the nature of what may be loosely termed a multi-cultural context. Emphasis is placed on the manner in which distinctive aspects of the Pithekoussan context interact, rather than on treating
Kosmopoulou, Maria-Eugenia
Figured iconography on pottery from Pithekoussai : insights into a local interactive identity. The thesis deals with figured iconography on pottery of approximately the second balf of the eighth century BC (the so-called 'Euboean period'), produced at the site ofpjthekoussai on the island oflschia in the Bay of Naples. Ancient testimonia on the origin of the settlers and the history of the site mainly come from Strabo and Livy, both writing in the time of the Emperor Augustus. Strabo (5.4.9) mentions that the site was once inhabited by Eretrians and ChaLcidians, and that the island suffered from volcanic eruptions and earthquakes. Livy (8.22.5-6) says that tbe founders of Cumae' were from Euboean Chalcis: after landing on Aenaria and Pithekoussai, they de.cided to take their chance on tbe mainland. The differences between these accounts may be related to the different sources from wbich each writer drew his information - Strabo from tbe fourth-century historian Ephorus and Livy from Timaeus who was writing at about 300 BC. The study focuses on ~ethodological issues in the study of figured iconography arising from the nature of what may be loosely termed a multi-cultural context. Emphasis is placed on the manner in which distinctive aspects of the Pithekoussan context interact, rather than on treating
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