G. Rechenauer - S. Kazmierski (Hrsg.), Vom Grund des Tragischen: Ansätze zur Interpretation der Tragödie, Regensburger Klassikstudien 6 (Regensburg 2023) 61-80
B. Eder – C. Baier – W. Gauss (Hrsg.): Ein anderes Griechenland: 125 Jahre Forschungen des Österreichischen Archäologischen Instituts in Athen. / Μια άλλη Ελλάδα: 125 χρόνια έρευνας του Αυστριακού Αρχαιολογικού Ινστιτούτου Αθηνών, 40–45. (Athen 2023) 384-393, 2023
B. Eder - C. Baier - W. Gauss (Hrsg.), Ein anderes Griechenland: 125 Jahre Forschungen des Österreichischen Archäologischen Instituts Athen (Athen 2023) 230-241, 2023
G. Rechenauer - S. Kazmierski (Hrsg.), Vom Grund des Tragischen: Ansätze zur Interpretation der Tragödie, Regensburger Klassikstudien 6 (Regensburg 2023) 61-80
B. Eder – C. Baier – W. Gauss (Hrsg.): Ein anderes Griechenland: 125 Jahre Forschungen des Österreichischen Archäologischen Instituts in Athen. / Μια άλλη Ελλάδα: 125 χρόνια έρευνας του Αυστριακού Αρχαιολογικού Ινστιτούτου Αθηνών, 40–45. (Athen 2023) 384-393, 2023
B. Eder - C. Baier - W. Gauss (Hrsg.), Ein anderes Griechenland: 125 Jahre Forschungen des Österreichischen Archäologischen Instituts Athen (Athen 2023) 230-241, 2023
Von Hyele zu Velia. Die Stadtmauern im urbanistischen Kontext. Die Befunde. Die österreichischen Forschungen in der West- und Unterstadt (1974, 1990–1993 und 1997–2001). Velia-Studien IV/1. Wien, 2024
The urban development of a city is often closely linked to its fortifications. Comprehensive rese... more The urban development of a city is often closely linked to its fortifications. Comprehensive research, undertaken by a multidisciplinary team of the University of Vienna between 1997 and 2001, focused on the evolution of Velia's city walls in relation to the urban development of the Greek colony on the Tyrrhenian coast. The new results mainly provide new information on the development of the city between the 5th and the 2nd c. BC and focused on a study of the architecture of the fortification as well as on a detailed analysis of the complex stratigraphy and the geology. A major force for the dynamics of urban evolution were ecological factors, mainly due to the instability of the slopes on which the city was built, and due to recurring, destructive sea floods. The complete contextualization and processing of the finds from these excavations (pottery, small finds and coins) allows for a new, precise dating of the individual periods of the urban development, eventually changing older approaches. The newly understood relations have implications for the interpretation of the fortifications in other historical and cultural settings as previously assumed.
The city walls of Elea-Velia, a Phocaean foundation on the Tyrrhenian coast of South Italy, have ... more The city walls of Elea-Velia, a Phocaean foundation on the Tyrrhenian coast of South Italy, have been explored and studied from the 1960s by M. Napoli and F. Krinzinger. In 1997-1999 the Austrian team under the direction of F. Krinzinger re-examined wall B in the lower town where the intact stratigraphy brought crucial new results for the development of the fortification which evidently was more complex than assumed in the 1970s. They revealed a new, yet unknown part of the fortifications (wall G) which constituted the earliest seaward boundary of the city. At the same time, they allowed to divide further and readjust the dating of the three periods of the city walls (midth of 5th c. – 1st half of 2nd c. B.C.) and brought new arguments for the location of the harbour. They also underlined the determining importance of natural factors, like constant landslides and violent sea storms, for the development of the city.
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