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Magna Graecia
(southern Italy). The ruins of Paestum


1 Ancient remains

1.1 The three Greek Temples 1.2 Other archaeological features 1.3 Painted tombs 1.4 Sele complex 1.5 Art from Paestum 1.6 National Archaeological Museum at Paestum

2 History

2.1 Foundation 2.2 Greek period 2.3 Lucanian period 2.4 Roman period and abandonment

3 Rediscovery

3.1 Second World War

4 Coins 5 In fiction 6 See also 7 References 8 Sources 9 Further reading 10 External links

Ancient remains[edit]

Aerial view of Paestum, looking northwest; two Hera
Temples in foreground, Athena
Temple in background, a modern museum on right

Much the most celebrated features of the site today are the three large temples in the Archaic version of the Greek Doric order, dating from about 550 to 450 BC. All are typical of the period,[2] with massive colonnades having a very pronounced entasis (widening as they go down), and very wide capitals resembling upturned mushrooms. Above the columns, only the second Temple of Hera
(Juno, Minerva, and Neptune
are right next to each other, while the Temple of Athena
is on the other side of the town center. There were other temples, both Greek and Roman, which are far less well-preserved. Paestum
covers an area of approximately 120 hectares. It is only the 25 hectares that contain the three main temples and the other main buildings that have been excavated. The other 95 hectares remain on private land and have not been excavated. The city is surrounded by defensive walls that still stand. The walls are approximately 4750 m long, 5 – 7 m thick and 15 m high. Positioned along the wall are 24 square and round towers. There may have been as many as 28, but some of them were destroyed during the construction of a highway during the eighteenth century that effectively cut the site in two. The central area is completely clear of modern buildings and always has been largely so, since the Middle Ages. Although much stone has been stripped from the site, large numbers of buildings remain detectable by their footings or the lower parts of their walls, and the main roads remain paved. A low-built heroon or shrine memorial to an unknown local hero survived intact; the contents are in the museum. Numerous tombs have been excavated outside the walls. The three Greek Temples[edit]

First temple of Hera, c. 550 BC

Second temple of Hera, c. 460–450 BC

Temple of Hera
II at night - Paestum

The first Temple of Hera, built around 550 BC by the Greek colonists, is the oldest surviving temple in Paestum. Eighteenth-century archaeologists named it "The Basilica" because some mistakenly believed it to be a Roman building. (The original Roman basilica was essentially a civic form of building, before the basilica plan was adopted by the Early Christians for churches.) Inscriptions and terracotta statuettes revealed that the goddess worshiped here was Hera. Later, an altar was unearthed in front of the temple, in the open-air site usual for a Greek altar. The faithful could attend rites and sacrifices without entering the cella or inner sanctuary The columns have a very strong entasis or curvature down their length, an indication of an early date of construction. Some of the capitals still retain visible traces of their original paint.[3] The temple is wider than most Greek temples, probably because there are two doors and a row of seven columns running centrally inside the cella, an unusual feature.[4] This may reflect a dual dedication of the temple. Having an odd number of columns, here nine, across the shorter sides also is very unusual; there are eighteen columns along the longer sides. This was possible, or necessary, because of the two doors, so that neither has a view blocked by a column. The second Temple of Hera

Temple of Athena, c. 500 BC

On the highest point of the town, some way from the Hera
Temples and north of the center of the ancient settlement, is the Temple of Athena. It was built around 500 BC, and was for some time incorrectly thought to have been dedicated to Ceres.[5] The architecture is transitional, being partly in the Ionic style and partly early Doric. Three medieval Christian
church.[citation needed]

External video

smARThistory – Ancient Greek Temples at Paestum, Italy[6]

Other archaeological features[edit] In the central part of the complex is the Roman Forum, thought to have been built on the site of the preceding Greek agora. On the north side of the forum is a small Roman temple, dated to 200 BC. It was dedicated to the Capitoline Triad, Juno, Jupiter, and Minerva. To the north-east of the forum is the amphitheater. This is of normal Roman pattern, although much smaller than later examples. Only the western half is visible; in 1930 AD, a road was built across the site, burying the eastern half. It is said by local inhabitants that the civil engineer responsible was tried, convicted and received a prison sentence for what was described as wanton destruction of a historic site. There is also a small circular council hall (bouleuterion) or assembly space (ekklesiasterion), with seats in tiers. It was probably never roofed, but had a wall around it, perhaps with a small arcade round the inside.[7] This ceased to have a role in Roman times and was filled over.[8]

Detail of one of the bronze vessels from the Heroon, in the museum showing a sheep and a woman

The heroon, close to the forum and the Temple of Athena, probably celebrated the founder of the city, though constructed around a century after the death of this unnamed figure. It was a low tumulus with a walled rectangular enclosure faced with large stones around it. When it was excavated in 1954 a low stone chamber with a pitched roof was discovered at the centre, half below the surrounding ground leval and half above. This contained several large, rare, and splendid bronze vessels, perhaps not locally-made, and a large Athenian pottery black-figure amphora of about 520–500 BC. The bronze vessels had traces of honey inside. These are all now in the museum.[8] Just south of the city walls, at a site still called Santa Venera, a series of small terracotta offertory molded statuettes of a standing nude woman wearing the polos headdress of Anatolian and Syrian goddesses, which were dated to the first half of the sixth century BC, were found in the sanctuary. Other similar ones have been excavated at other Paestum
sanctuaries during excavations in the 1980s. The figure is highly unusual in the Western Mediterranean.[9] The open-air temenos was established at the start of Greek occupation: a temple on the site was not built until the early fifth century BC. A nude goddess is a figure alien to Greek culture before the famous Cnidian Aphrodite by Praxiteles
or Cypriot Aphrodite. Inscriptions make clear that during Roman times, the cult was reserved to Venus.

The roof of the heroon chamber, after the tumulus was removed

The ekklesiasterion or council chamber

A ruined tower on the city wall

The Via Sacra, main street of the Roman city

Painted tombs[edit]

The ceiling of the Tomb of the Diver, c. 470 BC

Main article: Tomb of the Diver Paestum
also is renowned for its painted tombs, mainly belonging to the period of Lucanian rule, while only one of them dates to the Greek period. However, this is the Tomb of the Diver
Tomb of the Diver
(Italian: Tomba del tuffatore), which is the most famous. It is named after the enigmatic scene, depicted on the underside of the covering slab, of a young man diving into a stream of water. It dates to the first half of the fifth century BC (about 470 BC), the Golden Age of the Greek town. It was found, on 3 June 1968, in a small necropolis some 1.5 km south of the ancient walls. The paintings have now been transferred to the museum. The tomb is painted with the true fresco technique and its importance lies in being "the only example of Greek painting with figured scenes dating from the Orientalizing, Archaic, or Classical periods to survive in its entirety. Among the thousands of Greek tombs known from this time (roughly 700–400 BC), this is the only one found to have been decorated with frescoes of human subjects."[10]

The symposium on the north wall

The remaining four walls of the tomb are occupied by symposium-related scenes, an iconography far more familiar from Greek pottery than the diving scene. All the five frescoes are displayed in the museum, together with other cycles from Lucanian painted tombs. In contrast to earlier Greek tomb paintings, these later scenes have many figures and a high proportion of scenes including horses and equestrian sports. Sele complex[edit]

The Sele metopes as displayed in the Paestum

Sele metope, two women running

Main article: Foce del Sele A few kilometres from Paestum
there was a temple complex at the mouth of the Sele river ( Foce del Sele
Foce del Sele
in Italian) dedicated to Hera. The temple is now all but destroyed, and little remains of several other buildings. About 70 of the sixth-century BC Archaic metope relief panels on the temple and another building at the site were recovered, however. These fall into two groups, the earlier of which shows the story of the life of Heracles
in 38 surviving reliefs; the later group, of about 510 BC, shows pairs of running women. The earlier cycle forms the centrepiece of the Paestum
museum, set in place around walls of the original height. At the site there is a museo narrante with video displays, but no original artefacts.[11] Art from Paestum[edit] The Paestum
archaeological museum holds the largest collection, but there are many significant pieces that were removed from the site before modern controls, and they are in a number of collections around the world. The National Archaeological Museum of Spain
National Archaeological Museum of Spain
in Madrid has especially rich holdings, with two important Imperial Roman statues and many, very fine vases (see below). Other pieces, mostly painted pottery, are in the Louvre, the Antikensammlung Berlin, and other museums in Europe and America. In the case of painted pottery, a number of individual artists, especially from the fourth century BC, have been identified and given notnames whose work has been found in tombs around the city and the region, and sometimes further afield. It has been presumed that these artists were based in the city.

Statues of Livia
and Tiberius, c. 30 AD, now in the National Archaeological Museum of Spain

and the Sirens on a Paestum
vase in Berlin

of about 360 BC, now Getty Villa, California

"Bell-krater with an Elderly Satyr Followed by Young Dionysos", by the "Python" painter, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

National Archaeological Museum at Paestum[edit] The highlights of the national museum at Paestum
are mentioned above: the Sele metopes, the Tomb of the Diver, and the contents of the Heroon. The displays also show a number of large painted terracotta architectural fragments from the temples and other buildings, many Greek terracotta figurines, and incomplete larger terracotta statues, and pottery including painted vases.

Sele metope with Heracles
killing the giant Alcyoneus

Head of a lioness, Temple of Hera

Painted terracotta from the Temple of Athena

Hellenistic Greek terracotta figurines


Overview of Paestum, 1769

Foundation[edit] According to Strabo
the city was founded as Poseidonia (named after the Greek deity of the sea) by Greek Achaeans from Sybaris. The colonists had built fortifications close to the sea, but then decided to found the city farther inland at a higher elevation.[12] The fortifications might have been built to the south of Poseidonia on the promontory where Agropoli
is now. According to the historical tradition the sanctuary to Poseidon
was located there, after which the city would have been named. The date of Poseidonia's founding is not given by ancient sources, but the archaeological evidence gives a date of approximately 600 BC.[13] Alternatively in fact, the Sybarites may have been Troezenians. Aristotle
wrote that a group of Troezenians was expelled from Sybaris by the Achaeans after their joint founding of that city.[14] Gaius Julius Solinus calls Paestum
a Dorian colony[15] and Strabo
mentions that Troezen
once was called Poseidonia.[16] As a consequence it has been argued that Paestum
was founded by the Troezenians referred to by Aristotle.[17] Another hypothesis is that the Sybarites were aided by Dorians
in their founding of Poseidonia.[13] Greek period[edit]

Rape of Europa
Rape of Europa
from a krater, 350–340 BC

Archaeological evidence from Paestum's first centuries indicates the building of roads, temples, and other features of a growing city. Coinage, architecture, and molded votive figurines all attest to close relations maintained with Metaponto
in the sixth and fifth centuries.[18] It is presumed that Poseidonia harbored refugees from its mother city, Sybaris, when that city was conquered by Croton in 510 BC. In the early fifth century, Poseidonia's coins adopted the Achaean weight standard and the bull seen on Sybarite coins. A. J. Graham thinks it was plausible that the number of refugees was large enough for some kind of synoecism to have occurred between the Poseidonians and the Sybarites, possibly in the form of a sympolity.[19] Poseidonia might have had a major share in a new foundation of Sybaris, which lasted from 452/1 BC until 446/5 BC. This is suggested by the great resemblance of the coins of Sybaris
to those of Poseidonia during this period. Possibly a treaty of friendship between Sybaris, its allies, and the Serdaioi (an unknown people) dates to this new foundation, because Poseidonia was the guarantor of this treaty.[20][21] Lucanian period[edit]

of chariot race and the winning post, third century BC, in the museum

It is not until the end of the fifth century BC that the city is mentioned, when according to Strabo, the city was conquered by the Lucanians. From the archaeological evidence it appears that the two cultures, Greek and Oscan, were able to thrive alongside one another. Roman period and abandonment[edit] What is known is it later became the Roman city of Paestum
in 273 BC after the Graeco-Italian Poseidonians sided king Pyrrhus of Epirus, who lost in his war against republican Rome
during the first quarter of the third century BC. During the Carthaginian invasion of Italy
by Hannibal, the city remained faithful to Rome
and afterward, was granted special favours such as the minting of its own coinage. The city continued to prosper during the Roman imperial period and became a bishopric as the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pesto around 400 AD. It started to go into decline between the fourth and seventh centuries AD, and was abandoned during the Middle Ages. The bishopric was suppressed in 1100. Like Naples
and most of the surrounding region, the inhabitants presumably spoke a Greek dialect throughout its history. The decline and desertion were probably due to changes in local land drainage patterns, leading to swampy malarial conditions. Raids by "Saracen" pirates and slavers also may have been a deciding factor. The remaining population seems to have moved to the more easily defended cliff-top settlement at Agropoli
(i.e. "acropolis" or "citadel" in Greek), a few kilometres away, although this settlement became a base for Muslim raiders for a period. The Paestum
site became overgrown and largely forgotten, although some stone spolia were collected and used in Salerno Cathedral
Salerno Cathedral
by Robert Guiscard
Robert Guiscard
(d. 1085). Rediscovery[edit]

One of Giovanni Battista Piranesi's etchings, 1778

Part of the wall and the three temples, 1837

Despite stray mentions such as that in the history of Pietro Summonte in 1524, who correctly identified the three Doric temples as such, its ruins only came to wide notice again in the eighteenth century,[22] following the rediscovery of the Roman cities of Pompeii
and Herculaneum, and during the construction of a new coastal road south from Naples. The modern settlement had begun to revive by at least the sixteenth century, to the side of the ancient ruins. After a complicated start, the rediscovery of the three relatively easily accessible, and early, Greek temples created huge interest throughout Europe. Prints of artworks by Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
(1778) and others were widely circulated.[23] The complete and relatively simple form of the temples became influential in early Greek Revival architecture. In 1740 a proposal was made, but not executed, to remove columns for the new Palace of Capodimonte
Palace of Capodimonte
in Naples. Initially, eighteenth-century savants doubted that the structures had been temples, and it was suggested variously, that they included a gymnasium, a public basilica or hall, or a "portico".[22] There also was controversy and misunderstanding of their cultural background. Alessio Simmaco Mazzocchi, a clergyman and antiquarian, "the founder of the modern study of Magna Graecia" (the ancient Greeks in Italy),[24] thought they were Etruscan, in line with his theories that Greek colonists merely had joined existing cultures in Italy, founded by peoples from farther east.[25] He derived the etymology of "Poseidonia" from an invented Phoenician sea deity.[26] The first modern published account of the ruins was Les Ruines de Paestum
in 1764, by G. P. M. Dumont, who had been taken to the site in 1750, along with the architect Jacques-Germain Soufflot, by Count Gazzola, an engineer for the government in Naples. Gazzola had drawn or commissioned measured drawings, to which Dumont added his own, as well as, more artistic plates. There was an expanded edition in 1769, the same year when a still more extensive account was published by the Englishman Thomas Major. By 1774 there were nine different illustrated publications on the site.[27] Second World War[edit]

A company of soldiers set up its office between the columns (Doric) of the Temple of Hera
II (c 1943)

On September 9, 1943, Paestum
U.S. 36th Infantry Division
during the Allied invasion of Italy. German forces resisted the landings from the outset, causing heavy fighting within and around the town. Combat persisted around the town for nine days before the Germans withdrew to the north. The Allied forces set up their Red Cross first aid tents in, and around, the temples since the Temples were "off limits" to bombing by both sides.[28] Coins[edit]

Nomos of Poseidonia, c. 530–500 BC. Poseidon
is seen wielding a trident with a chlamys draped over his arms.

The coins of Paestum
begin about 550 BC. These early issues were perhaps all festival coins. They usually have Poseidon
with upraised trident. Issues continue until the reign of Tiberius. For unknown reasons Paestum
alone of all the smaller Italian mints, was allowed to continue minting bronze coins by a Senatorial decree of about 89 BC, after this had been centralized. Later coins carry "P. S. S. C.", standing for "Paesti Signatum Senatus Consulto" to reflect this.[29] In fiction[edit]

from the "Tomb of the Black Rider", Lucanian period

Gate to the Sea, a historical novel by Bryher published in 1958, portrays the flight of Harmonia, a Greek high priestess, from Poseidonia (Paestum), where the Greek inhabitants have been enslaved and culturally dominated by the Lucani
since the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC In the novel My Antonia
My Antonia
by Willa Cather, the professor Gaston Cleric contracts a fever after spending the night outdoors admiring "the sea temples at Paestum" In the film Mare Nostrum (film)
Mare Nostrum (film)
by Rex Ingram (director), they visit Paestum In the 2007 video game Medal of Honor: Airborne, the second mission takes place in Paestum Jason and the Argonauts (1963 film)

See also[edit]

Architecture of Ancient Greece Roman Catholic Diocese of Pesto Greek temple List of ancient Greek temples List of Greco-Roman roofs List of archaeological sites sorted by country


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Further reading[edit]

Amato, Vincenzo (2009). "Geomorphology and geoarchaeology of the Paestum
area: modifications of the physical environment in historical times". Méditerranée (112). doi:10.4000/mediterranee.3376.  Bunbury, Edward Herbert (1854). "Paestum". In Smith, William. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography.  Cipriani, Marina (1996). The Lucanians in Paestum. Sirene. 1. Paestum: Fondazione Paestum. ISBN 978-88-86884-02-0.  Greco, Emanuele (2006). Archaeological and Historical Guide to the Excavations, the Museum and the Antiquities of Poseidonia and Paestum. Taranto: Scorpione editrice.  Greco, Emanuele (1993). Paestum: A Guide with Reconstructions of Ancient Monuments. Past & Present (in Italian). 171. Vision SRL. ISBN 978-88-8162-016-6.  Higginbotham, James (2012). " Paestum
(Poseidonia)". The Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Blackwell Publishing Ltd. doi:10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah16104. ISBN 978-1-4443-3838-6. Retrieved 5 November 2013.  Horsnaes, Helle W. (2002). The Cultural Development in North Western Lucania c. 600–273 BC. Analecta Romana Instituti Danici Supplementum. 28. Rome: L'Erma di Bretschneider. ISBN 978-88-8265-194-7.  Pedley, John Griffiths (1990). Paestum: Greek and Romans in Southern Italy. New Aspects of Antiquity. London, England: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 978-0-500-39027-6.  Strabo, Geographica
6.1 Wonder, John W. (2002). "What Happened to the Greeks in Lucanian-Occupied Paestum? Multiculturalism in Southern Italy". Phoenix. 56 (1/2): 40–55. JSTOR 1192469. 

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