Lo spazio ionico e le comunità della Grecia nord-occidentale

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Abstracts
Maria Intrieri
Università della Calabria
AUTARKEIA.
REMARKS ON KERKYRA’S ECONOMY (5 TH -4 TH CENT. BC)
In the speech held in 433 BC before the Athenian assembly gathered to decide
whether to grant Kerkyra’s request for alliance, Korinthians accused
Kerkyraians to “be themselves judges of the damage they do to others rather
than submit to agreed terms” inasmuch they were in a position of ‘autarkeia’,
because, “while they have little need to seek the assistance of others, it is the
others who mostly fall into their hands necessarily”(Thuc. 1, 37, 3). This complain
tended to unmask – from the Korinthian point of view – the false justifications
the Kerkyraians had brought with regard to their previous policy of independence
from the factions then emerging in the Greek world; from our point
of view, it contains an explicit reference to the peculiarities of Kerkyra’s economy.
In a recent interpretation of the passage, A. Bresson has proposed to identify
in a ‘smart’ use of foreign traders as vectors of both imports and exports
the foundation of Kerkyra’s autarkeia and thus of its golden isolation.
In order to better define this autarkeia, it is our intention to put to the test –
more comprehensively, and analytically – all the fragmentary news offered by
the literary and epigraphical sources, as well as the data retrievable from the
archaeological evidence, to build up – as far as possible – a picture of Kerkyra’s
economy (agricultural production, port operations, commercial assets and relationships,
directions) and its incidence on the events that mark the island’s internal
and international life between the 5 th and the 4 th cent. BC.
Ekaterini Kanta‐Kitsou, Kassiani Lazari
32 nd Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities
THESPROTIA DURING LATE CLASSIC AND HELLENISTIC PERIODS.
THE FORMATION AND EVOLUTION OF THE CITIES
In this paper we discuss the residential development and, in general, topography
of Thesprotia during late Classic and Hellenistic periods (4 th -2 nd cent.
BC), when the area evolves rapidly and the first fortified settlements and cities
are established, following the example of the south Greek colonies, which have
been set up on the coast of Epirus.
In the mid‐4 th cent. BC the population of the small unfortified villages of
Thesprotia is organized in new larger fortified settlements, which take control