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(ANSA) – ROME, DECEMBER 13 – It was the Etruscans, many centuries before the city became a Roman colony, who founded Pompeii, shaped the city, organized its streets “following the sky and the stars” as already They had done it with Tarquinia, Veio, Cerveteri, to build their first sanctuaries, on the road that went from the city to the port, the hub of commercial traffic. This is the hypothesis to which the studies on the material brought to light in the latest excavation campaigns in progress in the World Heritage archaeological park seem to lead “with great insistence” and which would allow after centuries to solve the mystery about origins of the city buried by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD
To talk about it, the director of the archaeological park Massimo Osanna, since September also in charge of the general direction of the Mibact museums, who together with the archaeologist Carlo Rescigno, academic from Lincei and professor of classical archeology at the University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli , presented the new discoveries at the Accademia dei Lincei, in a round table with Fausto Zevi, emeritus professor of the history of Greek and Roman art at the Sapienza in Rome and academic from Lincei, Carmine Ampolo, emeritus of Greek history at the Normale in Pisa , Pier Giovanni Guzzo, for many years at the head of the Pompeii excavations, with the introduction of the academic Roberto Antonelli.
The hypothesis, Osanna says, is that of a city that was founded and built in a few decades by a group of people, partly perhaps also freed slaves, a community “of Etruscan language and culture” that, however, to build walls , houses and temples, makes use of “local workers”, bells, therefore, influenced by the melting pot of cultures that then animated the Campania region, from the Italic to the Greek. A rich and powerful city, up to a tragic stop. Which arrived in 474 BC, due to the political consequences of the naval battle of Cuma, which the Greeks won against the Etruscans. Pompeii, which in that “international chessboard” was aligned on the side of the homeland, in fact after that battle it disappeared, perhaps even abandoned by its inhabitants, for almost a century. (HANDLE).
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