Vol. 3 No. 3 (2022): Una / Κοινῇ - Journal of Classical Studies and their Reception in Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature
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Notes and considerations on Cuman sacred landscape and the cult of Mephitis

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  • Adele Migliozzi
Published December 19, 2022
Keywords
  • Cuma,
  • Euboea,
  • Mephitis,
  • cults,
  • frontier
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Migliozzi, A. (2022). Notes and considerations on Cuman sacred landscape and the cult of Mephitis. Una Κοινῇ - Magazine of Studies on the Classic and Its Reception in Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature, 3(3), 115-137. Retrieved from https://unakoine.it/index.php/unaK/article/view/105

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Abstract

The article investigates on how the Cuman cults formed, as an outcome of the ethnic and cultural stratification which takes place in ancient Campania. Its sacred landscape goes through a phase in which these cults focus on the chthonic rituality of the Avernus, by virtue of the relationships between the Campanian and Italic elites: the same environmental features are reproduced in the sanctuary of Mephitis, in the Ansanto Valley, where this goddess of mediation oversees the intercultural dynamics of the frontier between Campani and Samnites Hirpini.

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