The expansion of urban and Syracuse in the sixth and fifth century BC

• Grant number: 09/12366-4
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: March 01, 2010
• End date: February 29, 2012
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Archeology - Historical Archaeology
• Principal Investigator: Elaine Farias Veloso Hirata
• Grantee: Juliana Figueira da Hora
• Host Institution: Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia (MAE). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The object of this masters degree project is to analyse de role of tiranic Siracusian government in city's urban reorganization, founded by Greeks in VIII b.C. For that, we are going to explore in written sources the authors that discribe Sicily's importants characteristics. They are: Diodoro Siculo, main reference for Syracuse, as well as Herodoto, Tucidides, Estrabao, Cicero, Polibio e Pausanias. The confrontation between the written and the archaeological sources will give us the elements for better compreending the different phases of occupation Asty-urban space and Khora-territory of Syracuse, since the foundation's moment until the fifth century b.C. The compulsory rearrangements of the population made by the tyrants should be analysed in the context of changes observed in polis Siracusana's space.

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

HORA, Juliana Figueira da. The Urban Expansion of Syracuse in sixth and fifth centuries BC. 2013. Master's Dissertation - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia (MAE) São Paulo.