Seminars on ancient topography and landscape archaeology
The cycle of Seminars on ancient topography and landscape archaeology for the 2025-26 academic year continues, with a new event organized by Rodolfo Brancato.
The meeting will host Massimo Frasca, from the University of Catania , who will hold a seminar entitled “Il paesaggio collinare di Leontinoi. Fenomeni di interazione tra Siculi e Greci“.
The talk, scheduled for Friday, May 8, 2026, from 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM, will focus on the settlement’s peculiarities. The choice of the Chalcidians to found the colony of Leontinoi on two rugged hills far from the sea is unusual compared to other Greek apoikiai in the West. It is, in fact, an anomalous landscape for a Greek polis, but typical of indigenous Iron Age settlements. On the two hills of San Mauro and Metapiccola, two indigenous settlements were already present, with different modalities and chronologies, with which the Chalcidians interacted from the very beginning, establishing relationships that were not necessarily conflictual.
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