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The Archaeology of Lucanian Cult Places

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The Archaeology of Lucanian Cult Places

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The Archaeology of Lucanian Cult Places book

Fourth Century BC to the Early Imperial Age

The Archaeology of Lucanian Cult Places

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The Archaeology of Lucanian Cult Places book

Fourth Century BC to the Early Imperial Age
ByIlaria Battiloro
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2018
eBook Published 14 October 2016
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315593074
Pages 342
eBook ISBN 9781315593074
Subjects Humanities
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Battiloro, I. (2018). The Archaeology of Lucanian Cult Places: Fourth Century BC to the Early Imperial Age (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315593074

ABSTRACT

With the emergence and structuring of the Lucanian ethnos during the fourth century BC, a network of cult places, set apart from habitation spaces, was created at the crossroads of the most important communication routes of ancient Lucania. These sanctuaries became centers of social and political aggregation of the local communities: a space in which the community united for all the social manifestations that, in urban societies, were usually performed within the city space.

With a detailed analysis of the archaeological record, this study traces the historical and archaeological narrative of Lucanian cult places from their creation to the Late Republican Age, which saw the incorporation of southern Italy into the Roman state. By placing the sanctuaries within their territorial, political, social, and cultural context, Battiloro offers insight into the diachronic development of sacred architecture and ritual customs in ancient Lucania.

The author highlights the role of material evidence in constructing the significance of sanctuaries in the historical context in which they were used, and crucial new evidence from the most recent archaeological investigations is explored in order to define dynamics of contact and interaction between Lucanians and Romans on the eve of the Roman conquest.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |12 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|31 pages

Lucania and Lucanians

chapter 2|39 pages

Lucanian cult places

Topographic and architectural aspects

chapter 3|48 pages

Lucanian cult places

Cultic manifestations

chapter 4|21 pages

Lucanian cults and pantheon between epigraphy and archaeology

chapter 5|24 pages

Lucania and the rise of Roman power

chapter 6|40 pages

Lucanian cult places during the Late Republican age

chapter 7|9 pages

Conclusions

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