ProQuest Dissertations - Historia Antigua
ProQuest Dissertations - Historia Antigua ProQuest Dissertations - Historia Antigua
Fregellae's economic prosperity, which led to the construction of the Aesculapiuscomplex, drew new Samnite and Paeligni colonists, or the new colonists contributed tothe economic prosperity which created the Aesculapius complex.Two more extra-urban shrines have come to light through various archaeologicaland construction projects performed near the excavation site of Fregellae. The first isalong the Via Latina at the northern exit from the colony. Traces of a sanctuary, locatedjust before the highway overpass, were casually reported after road work was carried outthere in 1990. 71These include undated fragments of architectural terracottas andterracotta slabs bearing fragments of a large, unreadable inscription done in relief. Adove motif found among these fragments suggests that this sanctuary may have beendedicated to Venus. Architectural pieces from another extra-urban sanctuary werediscovered along the Melfa River, southeast of Fregellae, near Roccasecca. Themonastery of S. Vito there incorporated blocks of stone associated with a Republicanbridge across the Melfa as well as a pagan temple located on the bank of the river. 72Thetemple fragments seem to belong to an older part of the temple, which was destroyed byCarthaginian troops during the Second Punic War. 73The deity is unknown, but thetemple did lie on the southeastern border where the Via Latina left Fregellan territory onits way to Interamna Lirinas. 74Thus these two sanctuaries arguably may be taken to markthe borders where the Via Latina leaves the site of Fregellae at the northern edge of theOpri Valley and where the road exits Fregellan territory to the southeast.7I Coarelli(1998),p. 62.72 Giannetti (1976), pp. 44-45.73 Livy 26.9.1-13 for Carthaginian activities around Fregellae.74 Giannetti (1976), p. 37.
To summarize, then, the original colonists of Fregellae (328) had altars tounknown deities, but were not yet able to build temples before the Samnites exterminatedthem. 75During the end of the fourth century, probably after the second colonization(313), the colonists worshipped a fertility deity on the terraces overlooking the Liris andalso built a temple in the forum. A century or more later, in the first half of the secondcentury BCE, the Fregellans reworked the forum temple to include the goddess Concordiaand also to demonstrate the prosperity of the city. At the same time or shortly thereafter,the terrace sanctuary underwent monumentalization to include Aesculapius and reflectHellenistic tastes. Both cults united the Fregellans with their new Samnite and Paelignineighbors, as did the cult of Hercules. Both were also a sign of the continued economicprosperity of Fregellae. In short, the economic and political landscape influenced thereligious practices of the colonists and the locals as they strove to adjust to each other.Through this cross-pollination of religious ideas, the colonists and locals built acommunity.Although the possible sanctuaries of Hercules, Venus, and those along the ViaLatina cannot be dated, and so the development of the sanctuaries cannot be inserted intothe community building between the Fregellans and Samnites and Paeligni, they doexplicate Fregellan control over their religious environment. The sanctuaries and templesof Fregellae lie within four of the five landscape zones illustrated by Figure 4.1, above:namely, within the city (Concordia temple, Hercules, et al), along transport routes75 Livy 9.12.5-8. Appian's discussion of the fall of Carthage (Pun. 89) includes temples as one of the mainconcerns of the inhabitants of that ancient city, which suggests that Livy might have mentioned them inconnection to the fall of the first Fregellan colony for greater impact, if they had existed. Eight years is alsoa very short time for colonists founding their city on virgin territory in a hostile region to found temples.168
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Fregellae's economic prosperity, which led to the construction of the Aesculapiuscomplex, drew new Samnite and Paeligni colonists, or the new colonists contributed tothe economic prosperity which created the Aesculapius complex.Two more extra-urban shrines have come to light through various archaeologicaland construction projects performed near the excavation site of Fregellae. The first isalong the Via Latina at the northern exit from the colony. Traces of a sanctuary, locatedjust before the highway overpass, were casually reported after road work was carried outthere in 1990. 71These include undated fragments of architectural terracottas andterracotta slabs bearing fragments of a large, unreadable inscription done in relief. Adove motif found among these fragments suggests that this sanctuary may have beendedicated to Venus. Architectural pieces from another extra-urban sanctuary werediscovered along the Melfa River, southeast of Fregellae, near Roccasecca. Themonastery of S. Vito there incorporated blocks of stone associated with a Republicanbridge across the Melfa as well as a pagan temple located on the bank of the river. 72Thetemple fragments seem to belong to an older part of the temple, which was destroyed byCarthaginian troops during the Second Punic War. 73The deity is unknown, but thetemple did lie on the southeastern border where the Via Latina left Fregellan territory onits way to Interamna Lirinas. 74Thus these two sanctuaries arguably may be taken to markthe borders where the Via Latina leaves the site of Fregellae at the northern edge of theOpri Valley and where the road exits Fregellan territory to the southeast.7I Coarelli(1998),p. 62.72 Giannetti (1976), pp. 44-45.73 Livy 26.9.1-13 for Carthaginian activities around Fregellae.74 Giannetti (1976), p. 37.
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