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| Author(s): |
Renan Falcheti Peixoto
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Maria Beatriz Borba Florenzano
[2]
Total Authors: 2
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| Document type: | Journal article |
| Source: | TEMPO-NITEROI; v. 27, n. 1, p. 1-26, 2021-05-03. |
| Abstract | |
Abstract: This paper uses the Gulliverian metaphor to examine the organization of a well-known Classical orthogonal planning in Magna Graecia, south Italy. After observing the relationship between the elements of the urban grid of Thourioi, we will propose the application of a modular unit formed by the sum of ten Attic feet by the geometer of its urban plan. According to our main argument here, this module orientated the land-measurement of Thourioi by co-measuring the width of ithe roadway network and width/length of blocks, lots, and “major rectangles”. Furthermore, certain alignments in its planning are physically established, as it will be demonstrated in the case of its major roads. Thourioi calls forth through its compositional structure of older formulas a wider horizon of orthogonal planning tradition, an ancient scansion rhythm reified in archaeological patterns of many Greek Western foundations since the VIII century BC. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 14/06260-7 - Hippodamus of Miletus and the foundation of the panhellenic colony of Thourioi, 444/443 BCE |
| Grantee: | Renan Falcheti Peixoto |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |
| FAPESP's process: | 19/24957-9 - Bringing up things out of date: re-assessing mobility in a comparative analysis of Mediterranean and Amazonian archaeology |
| Grantee: | Renan Falcheti Peixoto |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate |
| FAPESP's process: | 16/00914-0 - On spatial structuration: the poetics of social rhythms in Western Greek apoikiai |
| Grantee: | Renan Falcheti Peixoto |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Master's degree |
| FAPESP's process: | 18/06265-0 - A Brazilian Classical Archaeology: the coming of the Greeks in the Aegean and the comparative study of the origins of Indo-Europeans and Tupis |
| Grantee: | Renan Falcheti Peixoto |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |