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Tombe a camera nella Creta ellenistica. Fra memoria minoica e influenze egizie, levantine ed egee

Author: G.A. Chatzidakis

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The paper, part of a broader research project, intends to reassess the uneven and variously documented evidence relating exclusively to chamber tombs documented in Crete during the Hellenistic period, highlighting their numerical distribution and geographical spread, their chronological indicators, and their apparently selective use (or reuse) by specific social groups. Focusing on this funerary type makes it possible, owing to both the quantity and quality of the available data, as well as the symbolic significance of such burial choices, to elucidate the presence of particular social, ethnic, and political influences within Hellenistic Crete. The study thus aims to provide a further element for the reconstruction of the island’s funerary landscape during this period, which has so far remained marginal in scholarship, particularly in the case of Crete.

Morte e memoria. Osservazioni sulle sepolture di personalità eminenti in associazione a edifici ginnici e agonistici

Author: R. Sassu

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In the framework of the topic concerning monumental tombs located within the urban space, outside the necropolis, a specific issue regards the identification of the spot where such edifices, exceptionally located inside traditionally forbidden areas, are built. The choice of associating the mausoleum to structures related to the concepts of glory and eternity is often expressed by the spatial and topographical connection between the sepulcher and structures devoted to sport and military training, as well as competition, particularly stadia and gymnasia, as testified by the case studies provided by Messene, Calydon, Miletus and Gortyn of Crete. The phenomenon – that usually aims to praise those who benefited the society through miliary or agonistic victories or euergetism acts by granting them an excellent tomb – is not restricted to the Hellenic world, but widely spread in the Roman provinces.

Dreros e Priniàs: nuovi dati e prospettive di ricerca sulla polis a Creta

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The present paper focuses on Priniàs and Dreros. These two Cretan sites show both analogies and differences concerning the construction and development of the civic and religious spaces during the Iron Age and the Archaic period. Furthermore, they allow to investigate the birth of the polis temple in connection with both the rise of an urban entity around an open space (agora) and the socio-political changes carrying from the Geometric society to archaic polis community. Furthermore, the paper underlines the importance of the new archaeological investigations of areas and buildings already excavated over the past century, which often allow a new reading of the archaeological evidence.