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By Alessandro

Guaggenti

Cultural Encounters

In The Western

Mediterranean:Archaic Greek DrinkingCulture & Native Sicilians

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Looking at the Culturalexchangeand interactionthrough a primarily social, butalso religiousand economic

activity

O U T L I N

E

Di!!erent ethnicities,differentsocieties, di!!erent cultural

practices

Wine drinking

O!ects& meaning"ithin society

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A Study Area

"icil# $ earliest!ormalcolonisation byGreeks

#astern Sicilylargely looked

at

$he %nativesgroups o!Sicilians

%ocus on"outh CentralSicily

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& E L '

WHY?

Mentioned #'ncient sources:(erodotus)Thuc#dides)*iodorus "iculus+FOUNDATION

,ounded in -../+C0hodian andCretan colonistsSURROUNDING

"urrounded # a

numer ofexca1ated nati1esites sho2ingexamples ofnati1e and &reek

cultureAREA

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Wine Drinking & TheSyp!iu"

#ateria$ %u$ture

ottery shapes related "ith "drinking

'hat pottery shapes"ere alreadyemployed by nativesocieties$radition o! "ine drinking in bo

Greek and native societies

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# $ ( N ) C ) $ * )NS ) C ) L *What i! %n!idered natie and 'reign?

Wh are the natie!?

H( d the!e di''erent !%ietie! e)pre!! the"!e$e! thrugh "ateria$ %u$ture?

H( d (e identi'y thi! and !ee thi! in the ar%hae$gi%a$ re%rd?

What are the pr%e!!e! ' intera%tin *et(een !%ietie!+ and h( d they e''e%t the"?

H( are the!e an%ient !%ietie! pre!ented t u! in the pri"ary $iterary !ur%e!?

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# $ ( N ) C) $ *

The pri"ary !ur%e!

,$hucydides

+ (erodotus

+ ausanius

+ Diodorus Siculus

+ #lymians

+ Sicanians

+ Sikels

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# $ ( N ) C) $ *

The pri"ary !ur%e!

$he "icaniansappear to have been the !irst to have settled init Sicily- indeed, as they themselves assert,even be!ore

them cyclops-, being theaoriginal population. but as the truthbehind is !ound to be, they "ere Ierians, and "ere driven

!rom the river Sicanus, in $heria, by the Ligurians And it "as!rom them that the island "as at that time called "icania,

having previously been called $rinacria

+ $hucydides / (istory o! the eloponnesian 'ar

0

1

# $ ( N ) C

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# $ ( N ) C) $ *

The pri"ary !ur%e!

Antiphemos "ho built Gela, having plundered 2mphake, asmall city o! Sicanians, took a"ay "ith him to Gela a statue

made by Daedalus3ausanius

0 1Gela"as coloni3ed by emigrants !rom Lindos in 4hodes, led(erodotus0

1Gela, again, "as !ounded by Antiphemus !rom4hodes, and #ntimus !rom Crete, "ho led a

common colony, in the !orty+!i!th year a!ter the

!ounding o! SyracuseThuc#dides0 1

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# $ ( N ) C ) $ *The !e%ndary !ur%e!

+$he Archaic eriod

+ #megence o! colonialGreek poleis in a !oregin

land

+ Dislocation o! !oreigners

+ #mergence / trade,

politicalorganisations

+ Amid long+standingreligious traditions

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# $ ( N ) C ) $ *The !e%ndary !ur%e!

+ )nstrumentalist Approach

+ rimordialist Approach56eyapproa

ches

+ Deliberate decisiontoemphasi3e one !ormo! identity overothers

+ $he manipulation o!material culture

+ $he identi!ication o!

much more !luidboundaries o!

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B ) B L ) 2 G 4 A ( *Smith, C and Serrati, 8 ed- 5999 Sicily %rom Aeneas to Augustus: Ne"Approaches in Archaeology and (istory #dinburgh ;niversity ress

#dinburgh

Slater, '8 ichigan

Lissarrague, %