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Lorenzo Campagna, « Trasformazioni urbanistiche in Sicilia alle origini della Provincia. Riflessioni sul ruolo di Roma », Ktèma (documents), ID : 10.3406/ktema.2019.2568
Orthogonal urban layouts in early Hellenistic Sicily have long attracted the attention of scholars, but the uncertainties on chronology still existing in many cases have led to divergent interpretations of their historical and cultural context. In the past these interpretations have often been guided mainly by formal and metrological considerations. A renewed attention to the available stratigraphic data has recently led to establish, at least in some cases (Tyndaris, Soluntum, Phintias), a dating after the middle of the 3rd century BC, in the initial phases of organization of the Provincia Sicilia. Moreover, in these three cases, the regular layout of the urban space overlies a previous settlement, with obvious changes in the property regime. It is therefore necessary to start thinking about the social and economic implications connected to these transformations, as well as on the political actors involved, evaluating the role played in these processes by Rome.