Cette thèse de doctorat traite de l’histoire de Poseidonia, une cité grecque d’Italie du Sud fondée vers 600 av. J.-C. Elle étudie son histoire sur les trois siècles de son existence à partir de toutes les sources documentaires qu’il est possible de réunir. Cette partie forme le contexte historique sur lequel s’appuie l’histoire monétaire de la cité grecque. La seconde partie répertorie et classe toutes les monnaies qui ont été frappées par Poseidonia entre 530 av. J.-C., date à laquelle elle inaugure un monnayage d’argent selon la technique incuse, jusqu’aux derniers bronzes émis par la cité dans les premières années du IIIe siècle. Elle analyse sa politique monétaire et ses réformes, et les replace dans le contexte historique. / This thesis is about the history of Poseidonia, a Greek colony of Southern Italy founded c. 600 B.C. It studies her history on the three centuries of her existence from every source which is possible to find. This first part forms the historical context on which the monetary history of the city relies on. The second part catalogues and classifies all coins that have been minted by Poseidonia between 530 B.C., when the coinage appears following the incuse technique, up to the last bronzes minted in the first years of the third century B.C. It analyses the monetary policy and reforms, and place them in their historical context.

This article pretends to provide a reading of the Seventh Letter focused on the role that medical terminology plays in it. Leaving aside the unsolvable enigma of Plato’s authorship, the letter shows evident connections with fundamental topics from the last” Plato, particularly in its political aspects. In many passages of the Seventh Letter, the figure of the philosopher as an educator appears covered with medical aspects, and the political situation is defined as a pathology that we must treat according to a therapeutic methodology. / En este artículo se pretende aportar una lectura de la Carta VII desde la función que desempeña en ella el léxico médico. Dejando al margen la irresoluble cuestión sobre la autoría platónica, la carta muestra conexiones evidentes con temas fundamentales en el llamado último” Platón, principalmente en sus aspectos políticos. En varios pasajes de la Carta VII, la figura del filósofo en tanto educador aparece revestida de aspectos médicos, y la propia situación política es definida como una patología sobre la que hay que actuar de acuerdo con una metodología terapéutica.

This master thesis deals with comparison of Greek temples in areas of Magna Graecia and the mainland Greece from the 6th and 5th centuries BC. The first chapter covers with the Greek colonization in Sicily and south Italy. Main temple buildings from both areas are described and compared in following chapters. All the differences between both areas are summarized in the end of the thesis.

Missing from the discussion surrounding the use of coinage in select burials within southern Italian Greek necropoleis in the fourth and third centuries BCE is an attempt to reconstruct the ancient conception of the ritualistic function of coinage. It is through a chronological survey of epigraphical evidence for temple finances that we can trace the concurrent developments of the recognition of a fiduciary value to money, on one hand, and the acceptance of a ritualistic function to coinage on the other. Both occur simultaneously in Magna Graecia where the earliest coins in burial have been found. The case study of Metaponto, an archaeological site around the Lucanian Apennines, reveals a correspondence between an Oscan assemblage of funerary equipment and the presence of coinage. One tomb in particular contains an old coin’s ceramic impression, a clear representation of a value above that of its monetary model. Indigenous Italian agency ought therefore be considered when explaining, not just the ritualistic deposition of bronze coinage in Italy, but also a broader recognition of the sacred and fiduciary value to coinage which led to its deposition. / Thesis / Master of Arts (MA) / When did humans start conceptualising the abstract notion of value which underpins modern paper money? The time of Socrates’ death was one of economic transition, when coins were first integrated into funerary rituals, used as religious dedicatory offerings, and minted in a new metal, bronze. These concurrent developments stemmed from the need for Greeks, using silver, to exchange with indigenous Italians who used bronze. This created a symbolic value for the bronze coins which was manifested in the contemporaneous acceptance of coinage in religious rituals. The case study of Metaponto, a Greek city founded in southern Italy, demonstrates the indigenous Italian impetus to include coinage in funerary assemblages, and by extension, their involvement in redefining the economic conception of money. A ceramic impression of an older coin found in one of these burials, is similar to paper money in that it represents a value abstracted from its silver model.

En se proposant d’étudier les relations des Français avec le Royaume de Naples dans la mise en place d’une politique archéologique parmi les plus modernes d’Europe sous les règnes de Joseph Bonaparte et Joachim Murat, cette thèse s’inscrit dans plusieurs domaines de la recherche en Histoire (politique et culturelle), Histoire de l’Art et Archéologie. Il s’agit ainsi de nous pencher surl’Antiquité à travers le prisme du XIXe siècle, tout en tentant de répondre aux questions actuelles de l’Histoire de l’art sur les provenances archéologiques et le destin des oeuvres découvertes dans ces années. Devant l’ampleur des découvertes archéologiques faites pendant le decennio francese, nous choisissons de limiter la recherche au matériel céramique. Ce corpus homogène permet de revenir sur les découvertes et l’histoire des sites archéologiques de l’Italie méridionale dans les années 1806-1815, en explorant des archives inédites. Leur dépouillement systématique apporte de nouvelles connaissances sur l’histoire des sites fouillés et permet de retrouver la provenance perdue d’objets aujourd’hui conservés dans les musées européens. Par ce croisement inédit de sources, nous espérons donner une vision plus complète de la Naples du decennio francese, tout en élargissant les connaissances sur l’Histoire de l’Archéologie en Italieméridionale. C’est là tout l’enjeu d’un sujet aux confluences des différents courants de l’Histoire,contemplant l’Antiquité dans le miroir des premières années du XIXe siècle. / Dealing with the relationships between the French connoisseurship and the Kingdom of Naples in building of one of the most modern archeological policies in Europe under Joseph Bonaparte and Joachim Murat's reigns, this doctorate takes a part in several fields of research in History (political and cultural), Art History and Archeology. It makes us look at the Antiquity through the prism of the XIX Century, trying at the same time to answer today’s questions of Art History about the archeological proveniences and the faith of the vases discovered in those years. In front of the large number of archeological discoveries made during the French Decade, we choose to focus our research on ancient painted vases. This homogeneous corpus leads us back to the discoveries and the history of archeological sites in the south of Italy during the years 1806-1815 by exploring ancient and unpublished archives. Their systematic sorting gives new information on the History of excavations, allowing us to find out the lost provenance of ancient vases, today conserved in several museums in Europe.With this original sources crossing, we aimed at offering a more complete vision of Naples during the French Decade by broadening the knowledge on the Southern Italian archeological History.Here stands the stake of a study at the confluences of different streams of History, looking at the Antiquity in the mirror of the first years of the XIX Century.