Scylletium
Σκυλλήτιον Scolacium | |
Location | Borgia, Calabria, Province of Catanzaro, Calabria, Italy |
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Coordinates | 38°48′33″N 16°35′44″E / 38.80917°N 16.59556°E |
Type | Settlement |
Site notes | |
Excavation dates | 1982 |
Management | Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Calabria |
Website | ArcheoCalabriaVirtual (in Italian) |
Scylletium[1] or Skylletion or Scolacium was an ancient seaside city in Calabria, southern Italy. Its ruins can be found at the frazione of Roccelletta, near Catanzaro, facing the Gulf of Squillace.
History
Greek era
Skylletion may originally have been founded in the 7th c. BC on the Punta di Staletti promontory.[2]
In any case Scylletium was situated from the 6th c. BC on the east coast of Calabria (ancient Bruttium), on the shores of an extensive bay, to which it gave the name of Scylleticus Sinus.[3]
According to a tradition generally received in ancient times, Scylletium (
It appears during this period to have been a minor place and a mere dependency of
It was still a small and unimportant place at the time of the Second Punic War, as no mention is found of its name during the operations of Hannibal in Bruttium, though he appears to have had his headquarters for some time at Castra Hannibalis very near Scylletium.
Roman era
In 124 BC the
Towards the close of this period it was distinguished as the birthplace of the Roman statesman
Sculpture
In 2006 a sculpture with the title Time Horizon was set up in the park by the English sculptor Antony Gormley.
Literature
- Antony Gormley: Time Horizon Intersecione, Intersecione 2 al Parco Archeologico di Scolacium, 2006 ISBN 88-370-4583-2
Notes
- ISBN 0-691-03169-X), Map 46, notes..
- ^ P. Courcelle, MEFR, 55(1938), 259-307, as modified by his article in Actes du Ve congrès international d'archéologie chrétienne (1957), 511-528
- ^ Strabo vi. p. 261.
- ^ Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica, § S579.7
- Serviusad Aeneidos iii. 553.)
- ^ Solinus, Polyhistor, 2.10
- ^ Cassiod. Var. xii. 15; Servius l. c..
- Diodorusxiii. 3.
- ^ Strabo vi. p. 261.
- ^ Velleius Paterculus i. 15; Mommsen, in Berichte der Sächsischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, 1849, pp. 49–51.
- ^ Orell. Inscr. 136; Mommsen, l. c.
- ^ Pomponius Mela ii. 4. § 8; Pliny iii. 10. s. 15; Ptolemy iii. 1. § 11.
- ^ Cassiod. Var. xii. 15.
- ^ Cassiodorus Chapter 6: Vivarium https://faculty.georgetown.edu/jod/texts/cassbook/chap6.html
References
- Roberto Spadea (a cura di), Scolacium una città romana in Calabria. Il museo e il parco archeologico, Milano, ET, 2005, pp. 506-542 e pp. 51-65
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
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