- Type: Doctoral thesis
Title: A cerâmica de figuras negras tasienses no contexto arqueológico: múltipla Ártemis e o feminino na Tasos arcaica
Year: 2018
Publication: Tese de doutorado
Keywords: Artemis; Thasian black-figure pottery; archaeological context; the feminine; Thasos
Abstract: Our aim in this work was to study Thasian black-figure pottery as a document embedded in archaeological contexts, part of the votive objects offered in female sanctuaries, with emphasis on the Artemision of Thasos. The research focused on Thasos, an island in the northern Aegean founded by Greeks from Paros. We concentrated on the Archaic period, more specifically the 6th century BC, the peak of local production. Starting from the archaeological contexts, examined in depth through excavation reports, we analysed the significant social and religious relationships established between votive materials associated with this Thasian black-figure pottery. These relationships provided elements that allowed us to interpret the multiculturalism embedded in the objects, the mimicry and innovations in the decoration of these black-figure wares, and the quantitative demand for a type of vessel called the lekane, an object that proved to be laden with cult information and meanings. In addition, there were features that revealed clearly votive practices, shown by the way the objects were displayed and by decorative traits that so far are documented exclusively on Thasos. The research revealed the intrinsic relationship with the various facets of Artemis, with rites of passage and with the protection of women in childbirth. It also showed that the multiple Artemis, protector of women, acts in the civic-religious space in connection with the oikos. Finally, we stress that all the elements listed above were grounded in a theoretical framework (the concepts of cultural entanglement, reception and cultural innovation) appropriate for underpinning our reflection on what emerged from the material documentation in archaeologically documented contexts.
Access - Type: Master's dissertation
Title: A expansão urbanística de Siracusa nos séculos VI e V a.C.
Year: 2013
Publication: Dissertação de Mestrado
Keywords: Colonisation; Monumentality; Polis; Syracuse; Tyranny
Abstract: This research aims to analyse the role of the Syracusan tyrannical governments in the urban restructuring of this city, founded by the Greeks in the mid-7th century BC. To this end, we explore the written sources of authors who report important aspects of Sicily: Diodorus Siculus, the main reference for Syracuse, Herodotus, Thucydides, Strabo, Cicero, Polybius, Pindar and Pausanias. We worked on compiling archaeological data from the important areas of the polis (ásty and khóra), as well as from its sub-colonies, in order to understand its urban space, the dynamics of its expansion from its foundation to the 5th century BC, and its monumentality. The comparison between written and material documents, the methodology of the work, will be the basis for a better understanding of political, social, economic and spatial relations. The forced relocations of populations promoted by the tyrants are analysed in the context of the changes observed in the space of the Syracusan polis.
Access - Type: Chapter
Title: A Cerâmica Tasiense de Figuras Negras: Uma Perspectiva Contextual de Análise Material - Uso Soci
Juliana Figueira da Hora