Books by Laura Ficuciello
Delle antiche vie di Atene, strette e anche maleodoranti come le descrive Eraclide Critico (ma no... more Delle antiche vie di Atene, strette e anche maleodoranti come le descrive Eraclide Critico (ma non tutte erano tali), si può avere una pallida idea visitando l’area compresa tra la Pnice e l’Areopago o i quartieri a Sud-Ovest dell’Agora o ad Est dell’Acropoli. Altre strade sono ancora ben visibili in prossimità degli ingressi alla città, presso la Porta del Dipylon e la Hierà Pyle ad Ovest o presso la Porta di Acarne, a Nord, sotto l’attuale Banca Nazionale della Grecia o in hodòs Tripodon. Per il resto la città antica, la ruota di erodotea memoria distesa intorno all’Acropoli, inghiottita da quella moderna, è diventata invisibile come quelle prodotte dalla potente immaginazione di Calvino. Ma altri tratti viari sono stati individuati durante i numerosi scavi di tutela eseguiti dall’eforia competente e poi nuovamente sepolti. La relativa documentazione, dispersa in articoli e relazioni di scavo, fornisce, se opportunamente esaminata, una traccia importantissima per ricostruire, almeno in parte, quello che possiamo definire lo scheletro della città antica, un dossier finora trascurato, dopo il grande lavoro di W. Judeich, la cui prima edizione risale ormai a più di un secolo fa, e dopo il più recente studio di M. Korres, limitato al quartiere a Sud dell’Acropoli. La raccolta sistematica della documentazione letteraria ed epigrafica e la meticolosa rilettura dei rapporti di scavo ha consentito di realizzare una banca dati sulle strade di Atene, utilizzata per proporre una prima lettura diacronica dell’assetto urbano ateniese.
Papers by Laura Ficuciello
Cités Nouvelles, Villes des Marges. Fondations, formes urbaines, espaces ruraux et frontières de l’archaïsme à l’Empire, (Diabaseis 10), sous la direction d'Arianna Esposito et Airton Pollini, Pisa, 2023
The contribution examines the archaeological evidence, ranging from
the subgeometric period to th... more The contribution examines the archaeological evidence, ranging from
the subgeometric period to the archaic age, related to the main sites of
Lemnos, with the aim of demonstrating that the Athenian construction
of the marginality of Lemnos can be deconstructed, on an archaeological
basis. During the Archaic period, in fact, Lemnos was at the center of
complex socio-economic and cultural networks in the northern Aegean,
which allow it to be identified as an “interface” between Thrace, the
Aegean and Anatolia and, ultimately, to be recognized as a “frontier
island”.
Efestia (Lemno) da “interfaccia tra Egeo e Anatolia” a cleruchia ateniese, a cura di Emanuele Greco, Atti della Giornata di Studi (Napoli, 13 gennaio 2020), Pelargòs Suppl. 1, pp. 179-193. , 2023
The conquest of Miltiades causes a strong discontinuity of Lemnos: in the passage from the 6th to... more The conquest of Miltiades causes a strong discontinuity of Lemnos: in the passage from the 6th to the 5th century BC, signs of a sudden caesura can be seen in Hephaestia. The Athenian takeover of the island is highlighted by an Athenian casualty list from Hephaestia from the beginning of the 5th century BC, by the violent destruction of the sanctuaries of Efestia and Chloi, which took place in the early years of the 5th century BC, by the necropolis and by a new urban layout per strigas.
The main sanctuaries of the Athenian colony, on the other hand, were located in the same spaces in which they were in the Archaic age, and even the ritual practices and cults, albeit with rearrangements and transformations, show forms of continuity with the Archaic age. However, the topography and characteristics of the sanctuaries also show a close relationship with the Athenian cultic policy which took shape in the 5th century BC in the agora of Kerameikos.
Efestia (Lemno) da “interfaccia tra Egeo e Anatolia” a cleruchia ateniese, Pelargòs Supplemento 1, Atti della Giornata di Studi (Napoli, 13 gennaio 2020), a cura di Emanuele Greco, 2023
I return to address the two key archaeological contexts, which document the culture of the Archai... more I return to address the two key archaeological contexts, which document the culture of the Archaic period
of Hephaestia: the acropolis and the necropolis. The archaeological record between the second half/end of the 8th and the
end of the 6th century BC, reflects the great social transformations that throughout the Greek world accompanied the rise
of the polis through the transition from structures with pre-political characteristics to forms of shared government, of an
aristocratic and associative type: during this process, abruptly interrupted in Hephaestia around 500 BC, the adoption
of certain cults and religious practices at the community level was decisive, becoming an identity reference for the
community.
La Parola del Passato. Rivista di studi antichi, vol. LXXVIII/1 , 2023
The article started from the study of two domestic units that emerged in the lower town of Elea d... more The article started from the study of two domestic units that emerged in the lower town of Elea during the archaeological excavations conducted by F. Krinzinger, between 1987 and 1994, under the Augustan triporticus of the Insula II. During the explorations, two mud brick houses came to light: they had been built in the second quarter of the fifth century BC, near the coast line, in an area already occupied by wooden houses and reeds. These houses were destroyed twice by land slides detached from the overhanging hillsides. The review of the settlement nucleus has made it possible to highlight elements that allow domestic structures to be ncluded in a regular urban planning organization. For the overall framing of the housing units in their topographic context, and for a proposal for an urban restitution, a brief summary of the main hermeneutical issues related to the late-archaic and classical settlements of the city (late sixth-fifth century BC) is presented preliminarily.
AIONArchStAnt (Annali di Archeologia e Storia Antica dell’Università degli Studi L’Orientale di Napoli), n.s. 29, , 2022
Nel contributo vengono esaminati, come casi di studio, alcuni abitati urbani delle apoikiai d’Occ... more Nel contributo vengono esaminati, come casi di studio, alcuni abitati urbani delle apoikiai d’Occidente al fine di rilevare l’eventuale presenza di peculiarità nella costruzione degli spazi insediativi nelle poleis con comune matrice culturale e, in definitiva, per osservare come cambia nel tempo, nelle città di nuova fondazione, il rapporto tra oikopeda, insulae ed impianto urbano, e contemporaneamente valutare se tale schēma consente di instituire rapporti con l’organizzazione della chora. Partiremo da Megara Hyblaea che rappresenta il punto di riferimento imprescindibile per affrontare questo argomento, saranno sottolineati alcuni tratti comuni tra le colonie megaresi, tra quelle siracusane, tra quelle calcidesi e tra quelle achee, per arrivare a Neapolis e Olinto e, infine, approdare a Thurii, e tentare un bilancio.
Pelargòs 3, pp. 41-81, 2022
The archaeological investigations carried out in a sector of the inhabited area of Poseidonia-Pae... more The archaeological investigations carried out in a sector of the inhabited area of Poseidonia-Paestum have made it possible to acquire some elements which, for the first time, allow us to formulate some hypotheses on the structure of the Greek-era housing blocks of the city.
Throught the elements that emerged from the explored context, revised in relation to the ancient road system, a restitution of the urban subdivision into plots and lots in the late Archaic period is proposed.
in M. Cipriani, E. Greco, A. Pontrandolfo (a cura di), Dialoghi sull’Archeologia della Magna Grecia e del Mediterraneo (DialArchMed VI), Atti del VI Convegno Internazionale di Studi, In memoria di Dinu Theodorescu (Paestum 1-3 ottobre 2021), Paestum, pp. 65-77. , 2022
The heroon of Poseidonia represents a monument particularly linked to the memory of Dinu Theodore... more The heroon of Poseidonia represents a monument particularly linked to the memory of Dinu Theodorescu: discovered by P.C. Sestieri in 1954, the building was correctly interpreted only thanks to the research that Dinu, in collaboration with Emanuele Greco, conducted in the 1970s in Paestum with the Italian-French mission. These investigations were very significant for the correct interpretation of the monument, identified as a herôon, and for the restitution of the topographical context of the agora within the urban layout of the Greek city. The careful drawings of the building structures and the study of the architectural remains that lie in the surrounding space, allowed Dinu to put forward some hypotheses on the restitution of the monument which, in his opinion, was covered by a mound and also equipped with an altar: the archaeological investigations carried out in 2018 in the area in which the altar was hypothesized, while not
allowing to confirm its existence, made it possible to collect clues that corroborate the hypothesis of the mound and revealed a complex stratigraphic situation that would require further insights.
Starting from the results of recent explorations, the new hypotheses, unresolved problems and prospects for future research are exposed.
in E. Greco, F. Longo, A. Pontrandolfo (a cura di), Studiis Florens, Miscellanea in onore di Marina Cipriani per il suo 70° compleanno, (Tekmeria 20), Paestum, 2022
The article deals with the problem of the attribution of a building from the Greek period (end of... more The article deals with the problem of the attribution of a building from the Greek period (end of the 6th century BC) which was discovered in the 1990s in the agora of Poseidonia, a short distance from the assembly building.
R. Brancato, L. M. Caliò, M. Figuera, G. M. Gerogiannis, E. Pappalardo, S. Todaro (a cura di), Schemata. La città oltre la forma. Per una nuova definizione dei paesaggi urbani e delle loro funzioni: urbanizzazione e società nel Mediterraneo pre-classico. Età arcaica, 2022
The discoveries that have been made in recent years by the SAIA, have revealed that Hephaestia wa... more The discoveries that have been made in recent years by the SAIA, have revealed that Hephaestia was continuously inhabited from the Bronze and Iron Ages until the end of the Archaic period. Between the end of the eighth and the end of the sixth century BC, the site is distinguished by a peculiar culture which will suffer a drastic interruption following the Athenian conquest of the island, which took place by Miltiades around 500 BC. The urban landscape is characterized by a settlement structured by 'family plots’, in which the tribal groups lived with a highly hierarchical social organization that also transpires in the burial ground. The urban architecture is dominated by 'prestige residences', including the ruler dwelling of the acropolis, or anaktoron, inhabited by a kind of tyrannos or basileus with priestly prerogatives. These buildings are residential complexes with multifunctional characteristics: initially connected with production areas, then reveal a strong interference with the spaces intended for religious practices and the exercise of certain political functions. The distribution, multiplicity and specificity of the spaces of collective life that emerge from the end of the sixth century BC are the result of the processes of social transformation that take place over a period of about two centuries in the site, and reflect a sociopolitical reality organized in urban or protourban forms, paralleling trends under way in Greece and the Aegean at the time.
in Grégory Mainet – Thomas Morard (Eds.), Roman Street and Urban Economy, Panel 8.12, Heidelberg, Propylaeum 2021, (Archaeology and Economy in the Ancient World – Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Classical Archaeology, Cologne/Bonn 2018, 2021
The article examines the urban economy of the famous Athenian district of Kerameikos through the ... more The article examines the urban economy of the famous Athenian district of Kerameikos through the restitution of the road network and the main economic activities that took place there between the Classical and Hellenistic periods, up to the Roman age, through a reconstruction carried out thanks to the literary sources and archaeological evidence.
in F. Pesando – G. Zuchtriegel (a cura di), Abitare in Magna Grecia: l’età arcaica, Atti del convegno, Napoli-Paestum 15-16 marzo 2018, (Argonautica 2), Pisa 2020, (ed. ETS), pp. 79-95, ISBN: 978-884675778-4., 2020
The paper concerns the archaeological explorations in Poseidonia-Paestum in an urban neighborhood... more The paper concerns the archaeological explorations in Poseidonia-Paestum in an urban neighborhood located within the walls but outside the Archaeological Park, in a privately owned area which, despite being only a hundred meters from the temple of Athena and the ancient agora, falls under the protection of the Soprintendenza of Salerno. In this area, which about 30 years ago had been the subject of preliminary investigations by the University of Naples “L’Orientale” (thanks to the Italian-French mission led by Emanuele Greco and Dinu Theodorescu), the remains of a Greek house emerged that was inhabited over two or three generations by people who lived in the same period in which the three great temples were built in Doric order. The exceptional condition of being able to investigate an entire sector of the Greek town which, due to circumstances fortunate, it is not affected by the overlapping of the Roman era, encouraged the new explorations that have been conducted under the direction of the writer: in this area, in fact, it was possible to unearth an entire room, about 36 square meters, which had been built towards the end of the sixth century BC, and which still had all the pertinent furnishings and remains in situ to a symposium that was still in progress at the time the house was abandoned, by first decades of the fifth century B.C.
Newsletter di Archeologia CISA 10 (2019), pp. 155-168, 2020
Newsletter di Archeologia CISA 9 (2018), pp. 195-200, 2019
Newsletter di Archeologia CISA 9 (2018), pp. 203-223, 2019
A. Pontrandolfo - M. Scafuro (a cura di), Dialoghi sull'Archeologia della Magna Grecia e del Mediterraneo, Atti del I Convegno Internazionale di Studi (Paestum, 7-9 settembre 2016), vol. I,1, pp. 229-246, 2017
C. Rescigno - F. Sirano (a cura di), Immaginando città. Racconti di fondazioni mitiche, forma e funzioni delle città campane, Catalogo della Mostra, Santa Maria Capua Vetere - Paestum, 2014
C. Rescigno - F. Sirano (a cura di), Immaginando città. Racconti di fondazioni mitiche, forme e funzioni delle città campane, Catalogo Mostra Santa Maria Capua Vetere-Paestum , 2014
F. Longo, R. Di Cesare, S. Privitera (a cura di), Dromoi, Studi sul mondo antico offerti a Emanuele Greco dagli allievi della Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene, tomo I, Atene-Paestum, 2016
The paper aims to examine records of Classical and Hellenistic city foundations to identify disti... more The paper aims to examine records of Classical and Hellenistic city foundations to identify distinctive features that are somehow traceable to innovations in the conception of Greek urban spaces traditionally ascribed to the city-planner Hippodamus of Miletus.
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the subgeometric period to the archaic age, related to the main sites of
Lemnos, with the aim of demonstrating that the Athenian construction
of the marginality of Lemnos can be deconstructed, on an archaeological
basis. During the Archaic period, in fact, Lemnos was at the center of
complex socio-economic and cultural networks in the northern Aegean,
which allow it to be identified as an “interface” between Thrace, the
Aegean and Anatolia and, ultimately, to be recognized as a “frontier
island”.
The main sanctuaries of the Athenian colony, on the other hand, were located in the same spaces in which they were in the Archaic age, and even the ritual practices and cults, albeit with rearrangements and transformations, show forms of continuity with the Archaic age. However, the topography and characteristics of the sanctuaries also show a close relationship with the Athenian cultic policy which took shape in the 5th century BC in the agora of Kerameikos.
of Hephaestia: the acropolis and the necropolis. The archaeological record between the second half/end of the 8th and the
end of the 6th century BC, reflects the great social transformations that throughout the Greek world accompanied the rise
of the polis through the transition from structures with pre-political characteristics to forms of shared government, of an
aristocratic and associative type: during this process, abruptly interrupted in Hephaestia around 500 BC, the adoption
of certain cults and religious practices at the community level was decisive, becoming an identity reference for the
community.
Throught the elements that emerged from the explored context, revised in relation to the ancient road system, a restitution of the urban subdivision into plots and lots in the late Archaic period is proposed.
allowing to confirm its existence, made it possible to collect clues that corroborate the hypothesis of the mound and revealed a complex stratigraphic situation that would require further insights.
Starting from the results of recent explorations, the new hypotheses, unresolved problems and prospects for future research are exposed.
the subgeometric period to the archaic age, related to the main sites of
Lemnos, with the aim of demonstrating that the Athenian construction
of the marginality of Lemnos can be deconstructed, on an archaeological
basis. During the Archaic period, in fact, Lemnos was at the center of
complex socio-economic and cultural networks in the northern Aegean,
which allow it to be identified as an “interface” between Thrace, the
Aegean and Anatolia and, ultimately, to be recognized as a “frontier
island”.
The main sanctuaries of the Athenian colony, on the other hand, were located in the same spaces in which they were in the Archaic age, and even the ritual practices and cults, albeit with rearrangements and transformations, show forms of continuity with the Archaic age. However, the topography and characteristics of the sanctuaries also show a close relationship with the Athenian cultic policy which took shape in the 5th century BC in the agora of Kerameikos.
of Hephaestia: the acropolis and the necropolis. The archaeological record between the second half/end of the 8th and the
end of the 6th century BC, reflects the great social transformations that throughout the Greek world accompanied the rise
of the polis through the transition from structures with pre-political characteristics to forms of shared government, of an
aristocratic and associative type: during this process, abruptly interrupted in Hephaestia around 500 BC, the adoption
of certain cults and religious practices at the community level was decisive, becoming an identity reference for the
community.
Throught the elements that emerged from the explored context, revised in relation to the ancient road system, a restitution of the urban subdivision into plots and lots in the late Archaic period is proposed.
allowing to confirm its existence, made it possible to collect clues that corroborate the hypothesis of the mound and revealed a complex stratigraphic situation that would require further insights.
Starting from the results of recent explorations, the new hypotheses, unresolved problems and prospects for future research are exposed.