https://gabrieldavidbaker.com/digital-exhibit/files/original/0855f98348f59666545d89f367227f42.jpg 727359ac7e26d3b6f57588b600968253 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Photo by Gabriel Baker. Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. https://gabrieldavidbaker.com/digital-exhibit/files/original/d6144440372e8c873865b40876a99a89.jpg 2825fa7d0506047347d58e7e0e901868 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Photo by Gabriel Baker. Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. https://gabrieldavidbaker.com/digital-exhibit/files/original/ef66a24251807e9ce752281357501d47.jpg c1ff9aa9e37d61f3639600741a45a342 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Photo by Gabriel Baker. Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Paestum Archaeological Site & Museum Description An account of the resource Poseidonia (later known as Paestum) was established around 600 BC by colonists from Sybaris, an older Greek colony on the south Italian coast. The town seems to have flourished in the intervening centuries, judging from its significant architectural remains--most famously its three large temples, of which impressive ruins survive. By 400 BC the city had taken on a large number of Lucanians, an Italian people from the surrounding region that spoke an Oscan language. While ancient authors like Strabo (and many modern authors) depict this as a Lucanian "conquest" or "occupation," most scholars now posit that the two cultures existed side-by-side, producing new, blended traditions (as seen in e.g. their tomb paintings). From 280-275 BC, the city sided with Pyrrhus of Epirus, a warrior-king who invaded from the Greek east, in his war against Rome. The Romans were ultimately victorious, and Poseidonia/Paestum became the site of a Roman colony in 273 BC. As a Roman colony, the civic architecture significantly changed to fall more in line with Roman models, pointing to the power and influence of the new Roman colonists. The city remained inhabited well into the Roman imperial period and into the early middle ages, though it was gradually abandoned by the seventh century. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gabriel Baker Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Comitium Description An account of the resource Location: Paestum Date: 273 BC Details: In 273, the Romans established a Latin colony at Paestum. (The city was originally called Poseidonia, then, after the take over by an Italian people called Lucanians, it was called Paistos, from which name the Latin "Paestum" was derived.) As in other Latin colonies, the settlers grafted Roman-style civic structures on top of the older city, in the process transforming the original Greek layout of the town. The comitium, as in Rome, was a place where citizens met for public meetings (contiones), to elect local magistrates, and for some judicial activities. At Paestum, the tiered seating of the comitium is still visible. Interestingly, the west side of the comitium building was partly demolished in the first century BC to make room for the (re?)constructed temple to Bona Mens (Good Mind). Thus, the comitium had probably fallen out of use, suggesting that the citizens had begun to meet in another location or the nature of civic activity had changed. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gabriel Baker Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License