Geometric Greece by Coldstream J. N

Author:Coldstream, J. N.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM)
Published: 2011-11-02T16:00:00+00:00

The Settlement of the Straits of Messina

Zancle, as Messina was originally called, took its name from the native word for a sickle; for that is the shape of the ancient Greek colony, enclosing an excellent harbour. It was settled in two stages,62 first by pirates from Cumae, later by a joint expedition from Cumae and Chalcis which parcelled out the land in a not very fertile region. We are left to conjecture whether this strategic place had to be rescued by the two mother-cities from lawless freebooters, or whether ‘pirates’ means Cumaean merchants, seen through the suspicious eyes of the farmers who came with the second expedition. Neither event has a precise date in literary sources, but a small sanctuary deposit from the end of the ‘sickle’ includes several EPC vessels, and a sherd from a late LG heron kotyle of the 720s.63

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