Thesis (doctoral)--Universität, Köln, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-162).

Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo analisar o desenvolvimento urbanístico de Selinonte desde a implantação do assentamento colonial em meados do século VII a.C. na costa ocidental da Sicília até o final do século VI a.C. focalizando especialmente a especialização dos espaços que compõem a khóra e a ásty desta pólis. Interessa-nos sobretudo compreender os mecanismos de apropriação de territórios e estratégias de reivindicação de soberania de áreas conquistadas mediante projeção de uma paisagem de poder. As mudanças na inscrição de espaços sagrados da paisagem, a definição das áreas de habitação e necrópoles e por fim o traçado da malha urbana são os dados materiais fundamentais desta pesquisa. Posteriormente opera-se uma analise que contrasta elementos da urbanística das pólis Mégara Hibléia e Mégara Nisea, tidas como cidades-mãe de Selinonte a fim de compreender possíveis replicações de paisagem urbana e respectiva importância para o desenvolvimento da pólis colonial. / This research aims to analyze the urban development of Selinus in a period that goes from the mid-7th Century BC, with the beginning of the colonial settlement on the Western coast of Sicily, until the end of the 6th Century BC, focusing the specialization of the spaces that compound the khóra and the ásty of this polis. Our main intention is to understand the mechanisms of appropriation of territories as well as the strategies of sovereignty claim in conquered areas through the projection of a landscape of power. The changes on the inscription of sacred spaces, the urban landscape and the definition of inhabitation and necropolis areas are the fundamental material data of this research. Thereafter, we follow with a contrastive analyses of the poleis Megara Hyblaea and Megara Nisaea, seen as mother-cities of Selinunte, in order to understand possible replications of the urban landscape and its respective importance to the development of the colonial polis.

Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo analisar o desenvolvimento urbanístico de Selinonte desde a implantação do assentamento colonial em meados do século VII a.C. na costa ocidental da Sicília até o final do século VI a.C. focalizando especialmente a especialização dos espaços que compõem a khóra e a ásty desta pólis. Interessa-nos sobretudo compreender os mecanismos de apropriação de territórios e estratégias de reivindicação de soberania de áreas conquistadas mediante projeção de uma paisagem de poder. As mudanças na inscrição de espaços sagrados da paisagem, a definição das áreas de habitação e necrópoles e por fim o traçado da malha urbana são os dados materiais fundamentais desta pesquisa. Posteriormente opera-se uma analise que contrasta elementos da urbanística das pólis Mégara Hibléia e Mégara Nisea, tidas como cidades-mãe de Selinonte a fim de compreender possíveis replicações de paisagem urbana e respectiva importância para o desenvolvimento da pólis colonial. / This research aims to analyze the urban development of Selinus in a period that goes from the mid-7th Century BC, with the beginning of the colonial settlement on the Western coast of Sicily, until the end of the 6th Century BC, focusing the specialization of the spaces that compound the khóra and the ásty of this polis. Our main intention is to understand the mechanisms of appropriation of territories as well as the strategies of sovereignty claim in conquered areas through the projection of a landscape of power. The changes on the inscription of sacred spaces, the urban landscape and the definition of inhabitation and necropolis areas are the fundamental material data of this research. Thereafter, we follow with a contrastive analyses of the poleis Megara Hyblaea and Megara Nisaea, seen as mother-cities of Selinunte, in order to understand possible replications of the urban landscape and its respective importance to the development of the colonial polis.

Urbanization in the Sikeliot apoikiai was the catalyst to the creation and reinforcement of polis identity from soon after the point of initial settlement onwards. A main priority of the Greek settlers was to first layout the foundations for an urban grid, and within this grid to designate space for ritual practice, later monumentalized during the Archaic and Classical periods following the growth of the polis. A diachronic and geographical survey of urbanization and of the religious architecture, art, and votives dating to the Archaic and Classical periods illustrates this; this survey centers around seven major Greek settlements in Sicily: Naxos, Megara Hyblaea, Syracuse, Himera, Gela, Akragas, and Selinus. While the process of urbanization also occurred on the Greek mainland, it was not prior to the phenomenon taking place in Sicily, rendering the Sikeliot poleis simply as imitations of mainland poleis as once argued; rather urbanization in Sicily occurred over a timeline parallel to that of the mainland. The development of Sikeliot trends and even prototypes in temple architecture and urban planning confirm this in the material evidence. There is also no evidence of the apoikiai in Sicily ever adopting poliadic deities, a traditional quality of polis identity within mainland poleis. Their polis identities were not rooted in the cult practice of poliadic deities, but in cult practice itself, which fostered a collective consciousness among polis inhabitants by virtue of shared ritual practice, reinforced by the monumentalization of religious space; cult practice is what affirmed and reaffirmed their polis identity. / Thesis / Master of Arts (MA)