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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 https://gabrieldavidbaker.com/digital-exhibit/files/original/6691fe98af02f5ea5bf55596861b5fe2.jpg c1bd36f6d65a8e75a78d34d1ae23c63c https://gabrieldavidbaker.com/digital-exhibit/files/original/f7745dad265988c8136040c3a48aa9d4.jpg 86c12845db77c105015d13dd3f3e9311 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 Deceased Woman on Funeral Couch - Andriuolo Tomba 53 Description An account of the resource Location: National Archaeological Museum of Paestum Date: 350-330 BC Details: 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 https://gabrieldavidbaker.com/digital-exhibit/files/original/0103a34d10fbd452a40221aaa9c2fd16.jpg 46304a5a46d11e6f4cbe6271884f54eb 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 Duel - Arcioni Tomb 1 Description An account of the resource Location: National Archaeological Museum of Paestum Date: 375-350 BC Details: 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 https://gabrieldavidbaker.com/digital-exhibit/files/original/06c80a3a83cc8ffadf8045d4d31a45ae.jpg cbcbc5a4c42c3cff0122ce341b9a35d5 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 Duel - Tomb Painting, Andriuolo Tomb 24 Description An account of the resource Location: National Archaeological Museum of Paestum Date: 370-360 BC Detail: 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 https://gabrieldavidbaker.com/digital-exhibit/files/original/d317ab8b56cf80778b48a74fb67fc56c.jpg 91f7146d6aead3fe37369252ec9268d9 https://gabrieldavidbaker.com/digital-exhibit/files/original/15cf99fe493bebe8fe8a6f2fb9114aaf.jpg f631c47538044e479e4c6cedbe58b2e4 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 Duel - Tomb Painting, Andriuolo Tomb 4 Description An account of the resource Location: National Archaeological Museum of Paestum <br />Date: late 4th century BC <br /><br />Details: The tomb frescoes of fourth century Paestum vividly express a mixture of cultures, drawing from Greek, Lucanian/south Italic, and Etruscan traditions. <br />Funerary games, such as dueling, boxing, and chariot racing, are commonly depicted in these paintings, celebrating the lives of the deceased and the martial virtues valued by Lucanian society. Images of dueling and gladiatorial combat, as pictured in this tomb, seem to have their origins particularly in Italic funerary traditions. However, note that the combatants pictured here wield both Greek and Italic military equipment. The combatant on the left appears to wear an Attic helmet, popular in the Greek east, while his opponent on the right wears an Italo-Corinthian helmet was used in Italy. Both wield a large hoplite shield (hoplon) and seem to wear the type of linen armor (linothorax) used in Greece and Macedonia.<br />Greek and Etruscan traditions peak out elsewhere: the thick red border at the bottom of the image (called a "dado") is well known from Etruscan art, where it was employed to mark off the base of walls; on the other hand, the red spheres hanging around the fighters are almost certainly pomegranates, which were "associated with death and rebirth in Greek iconongraphy as in the story of Persephone eating pomegranate in the underworld" (Tuck, 57).<br /><br />Further reading:<br />Tuck, Steven L. <em>A History of Roman Art. </em>Wiley-Blackwell, 2015. 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 https://gabrieldavidbaker.com/digital-exhibit/files/original/01028b2474535b5e7cad03e08961828b.jpg 18fd964ff9b8c4bb137302ebd924ea36 https://gabrieldavidbaker.com/digital-exhibit/files/original/b5ac0471b8e9eb95ece6dd9de936c729.jpg 388ec9a4ac4bba1dd35c4603def82e14 https://gabrieldavidbaker.com/digital-exhibit/files/original/aa57233bf98ea857d22589cdda7983ab.jpg 62f5faae8af9ae1f56abb0faaae1dc23 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 Duel and Two-Horse Chariot - Andriuolo Tomb 53 Description An account of the resource Location: National Archaeological Museum of Paestum Date: 350-330 BC Details: 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 https://gabrieldavidbaker.com/digital-exhibit/files/original/56b52f213dc17e3defe1ffd5e5e40a2a.jpg 2b843ecbfb7ff6b92440d15d86fe809d https://gabrieldavidbaker.com/digital-exhibit/files/original/7af485ace1d7d7f50ad04dd27db00245.jpg 09cc6046037644e6799a34f3876b8b59 https://gabrieldavidbaker.com/digital-exhibit/files/original/f8b638bb9e5f6a34038dd45346705f2c.jpg 4d814e5736e4b041a86a684a2647326b 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 Duel and Two-Horse Chariot Race - Laghetto Tomb X Description An account of the resource Location: National Archaeological Museum of Paestum Date: 350 BC Details: 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 https://gabrieldavidbaker.com/digital-exhibit/files/original/678ccba405e7e32dccb05c694387c6f5.jpg 2b05e0111f9d94c6ecd1e30bfd21e1c3 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 Ekklesiaterion or Bouleuterion Description An account of the resource Location: Paestum Date: fifth century BC Details: In many Greek cities, the ekklesiaterion was a building that hosted meetings of the ekklesia, the assembly of all adult male citizens. The bouleuterion was a building designated for the boule, usually about 500 leading councilmen. This building may be either, though its size perhaps points towards the latter. The building was certainly in use when Paestum (or Poseidonia) was a Greek city, and continued in use after the Lucanians (a local Italian people) had become prominent in the city population. The building was demolished and thus fell out of use when the Roman colony was installed in 273 BC, after which political gravity shifted towards the forum, comitium, and curia. 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 https://gabrieldavidbaker.com/digital-exhibit/files/original/89ad3e81b631688a5eee7149afe0ef0f.jpg 41b1eeeb96af24e1a89da22512f32e59 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/. 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Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. https://gabrieldavidbaker.com/digital-exhibit/files/original/f4132be227d5b5e4c5733ab6ce78d5e7.jpg 3bef0e93283d42414ca168d8afa018b2 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/40bd21abee9ae6445cc71547bb83733a.jpg 778a703ff6a3f1af27fd4aaa044be936 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 Fortifications Description An account of the resource Location: Paestum Date: the walls visible today were probably built between the late fourth and third century BC, when a Roman colony was established here. However, they may have been preceded by an earlier fortification system. Details: The massive fortification walls of Paestum once stood about 7 meters (~23 feet) tall--or taller--and were 5-6 meters (15-20 feet) thick. They stretched nearly 5 km (~3 miles) around the city. They had 28 towers and four main gates. The wall is ashlar (which basically means that it was made of rectangular dressed stones) and made from local travertine stone. There was a large ditch in front of the walls, as was common in Hellenistic fortifications. 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 https://gabrieldavidbaker.com/digital-exhibit/files/original/0aa609d1ebb6876ab75cd66cee6647c3.jpg b8d86f0347382e324b5158d74fd88df9 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. 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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 Forum 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 forum, as in Rome, was an open air space that served as the political, sacred, and economic heart of the city. Markets were held in or around the forum, and many of the city's most important civic and religious buildings were built around the forum. 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