Da Zankle a Messene: le ktiseis tra mito e storia
From Zankle to Messene: The ktiseis between Myth and History

Summary/Abstract: The contribution aims to analyze the various traditions, mythographic and historiographic, relating to the foundations of Zankle, a polis that, among the Greek apoikiai of Sicily, stands out for its originality and atypicality. The tradition, in fact, elaborated over the centuries, in addition to testifying to the intense vitality that characterized the area since ancient times, also offered the poets interesting ideas for mythopoeic elaboration by setting events of monstrous beings and heroic figures reflecting the essence of those places.

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