Le cinte murarie dell’Etruria meridionale all'epoca della conquista romana, in Le cinte murarie antiche della Sicilia occidentale
Author(s)
DE ANGELI, Stefano
Date Issued
2019
Type
article
Volume
4, 2019
Start Page
205
End Page
235
Journal
Abstract
This paper aims at offering an updated overview of the urban fortifcations of the Etruscan world erected between the IV and III century BC, on the eve of the Ro man conquest of Southern Etruria and in the wake of the architectural innovations determined by the new techniques of Hellenistic poliorcetics. On the basis of this
information, the dynamics of the gradual acquisition of the notions of the new Greek poliorcetics by the Romans between the end of the IV and the frst decades of the III cent. BC is subsequently taken into account. In this regard, the discourse dwells on some examples of Roman military architecture, where the so-called “Hellenistic rev olution” has found a complete manifestation, as in particular in the polygonal walls of Cosa and later in the wall circuit of Falerii Novi.
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