The study focuses on the terms attested in Livy I, 24: (porcum) saxo silice percussit. The verb indicates a specific method for stunning/felling the animal with a particularly hard stone. The discrepancy between OHG. sahs and Latin saxum could be explained by the episode of Attus Navius, who has to cut a whetstone (cotem) with a novacula: this could not have been a metal tool but a hard stone capable of 'striking' and thus splitting the whetstone with a well-aimed blow, similar to the one of the fetial priest on the porcus (pig).
This return to the question ofAlalia, the Phocaean foundation of Corsica, seeks first to offer another interpretation of Herodotus' text (I, 163-167), which has always been considered the essential source; it aims to show that this is a direct account by the descendants of the Phocaean exiles, rather than a historian's assessment. It then takes a critical (and above all self-critical) look at the reading of this text. Finally, it aims to offer a broad historiographical assessment, taking into account the different ancient perspectives that explain, in particular, the silence on Marseille.
This paper aims to analyze the perception of the Etruscan civilization in the collective imagination through the study of four movies: L'Etrusco uccide ancora (1972), Assassinio al cimitero etrusco (1982), La maschera etrusca (2007) and La Chimera (2023). The analysis focuses on themes such as demons, the significance of the well and the mirror, and matriarchy.
This study aims to produce a systematic review of the topographical data found in the Attic Stelae (IG I-3 421-430), through an autoptical revision of the texts stored in the Athenian museums. It offers a detailed analysis of the documents and, at the same time, it seeks to outline the economic context that formed the background of confiscation of elitarian properties by public officials, in the final part of the 5th century BC.
The settlement of Sorgenti della Nova (Farnese, VT) dates back to the end of the Bronze Age. Its use is focused in the last phase of Late Bronze Age (BF 3), reaching the threshold of the Iron Age. At the end of the 10th century BC, the settlement was abandoned in favor of Vulci, and remained uninhabited until the medieval period. Nevertheless, the site remained in the collective memory of the local inhabitants. There is evidence of occasional use during the Etruscan period. Among the most substantial evidence of this phenomenon are the materials recovered from Sector XII, dated between the 7th and 6th centuries BC, presented in this paper.
