ProQuest Dissertations - Historia Antigua

landscape with a Greek pedigree not disturbed by its later Lucanian masters.Inside thecity, the colonists retained the use of nearly all of the sacred spaces with the exception ofthose related to the Greek and Lucanian political administration, such as those at theekklesiasterion and the heroon.Otherwise, the newest colonists did not significantly add to the religiouslandscape of Paestum, with a few minor exceptions. Instead they immersed themselves inthe local religious system. What follows is a summary of the colonists' significantchanges to the religious landscape (the ekklesiasterion, heroon, and early small temples)and continued use of certain temples (in both urban sanctuaries as well as extra-urbansites) with a view to how the slight changes in the religious system affected both colonistsand locals. The Latin colonists made changes to the fabric of Paestum, but gradually andwithout destroying many of the monumental structures of the former rulers there. 84Among the changes that were made were the ritual burial of the heroon andekklesiasterion. The original construction of the heroon dates to the late sixth or earlyfifth century BCE; the small, door-less and windowless structure adorned the western sideof the Greek agora? 5In Greek colonies, such shrines commemorated the oikistes (real ormythical) after his death and served as a focus for rituals relating to the health of the82 Crawford (2006), p. 63.83 For the ekklesiasterion and heroon see Torelli (1999a), p. 16. For reuse of the Greek temples: Bradley(2006), p. 173 and, in general, Torelli (1999a) and Crawford (2006) with further bibliographical references.84 Crawford argues this convincingly throughout his 2006 article.85 Torelli (1999a), p. 16. Greco (2001b), pp. 48-52. Wilson (2006) pp. 46-47 notes that the shrine had nohuman remains, and so may have been the cenotaph of a hero, possibly the founder of Sybaris, which wasdestroyed in 510 BCE. Refuges from Sybaris may have brought the cult to Poseidonia or urged the citizensthere to create their own founder's cult.171