Morgantina Studies VII. the City Plan and Political Agora: Results of the Excavations Conducted by Princeton University, the University of Illinois, and the University of Virginia
Morgantina Studies VII. the City Plan and Political Agora: Results of the Excavations Conducted by Princeton University, the University of Illinois, and the University of Virginia
English summary: Excavations beginning in 1955 have made Morgantina into one of the most extensively known ancient cities in Sicily. Volume VII in the series Morgantina Studies describes both the new urban plan of the fifth century BCE and the city's public center or agora, where ten major buildings were added between the late classical and early Hellenistic periods, ca. 400-200 BCE. The ambitious city plan, probably owed to the charismatic indigenous leader Douketios, is shown to reflect the democratic movements of the ...
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English summary: Excavations beginning in 1955 have made Morgantina into one of the most extensively known ancient cities in Sicily. Volume VII in the series Morgantina Studies describes both the new urban plan of the fifth century BCE and the city's public center or agora, where ten major buildings were added between the late classical and early Hellenistic periods, ca. 400-200 BCE. The ambitious city plan, probably owed to the charismatic indigenous leader Douketios, is shown to reflect the democratic movements of the early century BCE. The plan is characterized by lots of equal size and an unusually large agora for political assemblies. From the start the agora at Morgantina has been a focus of the U.S. excavations. Most buildings belong to an ambitious program adopted ca. 250 BCE, when the city lay under the sway of Hellenistic Syracuse. This was the age of Archimedes, Theokritos, and King Hieron II, whose economic and political reforms are perceptible at Morgantina. The building program exploited the generous available space. The result was a scenographic assemblage of monuments that took advantage of sight lines and changes in level to create a visually coherent whole. Volume VII of Morgantina Studies presents the material evidence for this major Hellenistic complex, offers reconstructions in the form of plans and drawings, and includes catalogues of objects from each structure. Political institutions are identified along with unusual building types and innovative details. While the agora of Morgantina offers a unique window on the lost civic architecture of Hellenistic Syracuse, it also documents the drastic local consequences of the second Punic war. Falling to Rome in 211 BCE, the city was depopulated and assigned to a band of mercenaries. Buildings that formerly housed political institutions were now largely given over to commerce and industry. Morgantina thus offers dramatic and detailed evidence for the traumatic effects on one Sicilian city of the transition from Syracusan to Roman rule. The book is intended for the interested public of scholars and students of ancient architecture and urbanism. Analysis of the relationship between architecture and political institutions will make it of interest to historians, as will the documentation of the specific consequences of depopulation and mercenary resettlement. Included is a study of the geology of the site by the late Sheldon Judson of Princeton University. German description: Die 1955 begonnenen Ausgrabungen haben Morgantina zu einer der am besten bekannten antiken Stadte Siziliens gemacht. Band VII der Reihe Morgantina Studies beschreibt sowohl den neuen Stadtplan aus dem funften Jahrhundert v. Chr. als auch das offentliche Zentrum oder die Agora der Stadt, wo zwischen der spatklassischen und der fruhhellenistischen Periode (ca. 400-200 v. Chr.) zehn bedeutende Gebaude errichtet wurden. Der ehrgeizige Stadtplan, der wahrscheinlich dem charismatischen einheimischen Fuhrer Douketios zu verdanken ist, spiegelt nachweislich die demokratischen Bewegungen des fruhen Jahrhunderts v. Chr. wider. Der Plan zeichnet sich durch gleich grosse Grundstucke und eine ungewohnlich grosse Agora fur politische Versammlungen aus. Die Agora von Morgantina stand von Anfang an im Mittelpunkt der U.S.-amerikanischen Ausgrabungen. Die meisten Gebaude gehoren zu einem ehrgeizigen Programm, das ca. 250 v. Chr. beschlossen wurde, als die Stadt unter der Herrschaft des hellenistischen Syrakus stand. Dies war die Zeit von Archimedes, Theokritos und Konig Hieron II., deren wirtschaftliche und politische Reformen in Morgantina spurbar sind. Das Baukonzept schopfte die grosszugigen Raumverhaltnisse ganz aus. Das Ergebnis war eine szenografische Anordnung von Monumenten, die Sichtachsen und Hohenunterschiede nutzten, um ein visuell koharentes Ganzes zu schaffen. Band VII der Studienreihe Morgantina prasentiert die materiellen Zeugnisse dieses bedeutenden hellenistischen Komplexes, bi
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