Alpi ed appennini: note sull’orografia nell’italia di strabone

• Autores: Eleonora Sideri
• Localización: Geografía y cartografía de la Antigüedad al Renacimiento: estudios en honor de Francesco Prontera / Encarnación Castro Páez (ed. lit.), Gonzalo Cruz Andreotti (ed. lit.), 2020, ISBN 978-84-18254-29-1, págs. 183-196
• Idioma: italiano
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• Resumen

  • In Strabo’s description of Italy the orographic elements fulfil a very important dividing function. For the first time, in Strabo’s “Geography” (II 5, 28) the Alps take the shape of an arch and they are much more clearly featured than in Polybius’ “Stories”, both in their internal sections and in the whole delineation. For historical reasons, the geometric center of the Alpine arch is located in the land of the Salassi, and, at its far ends, it owns a double fold whose symmetry, albeit fictitious, affects the geometric scheme of the contiguous Gallia Narbonensis (Str., IV 1, 3) as well as the layout of the Gallic rivers that arise from the Alps. By contrast, the Apennines are described in a less detailed manner. Nevertheless, there is a particularly interesting passage (Str., V 2, 10) in which Umbri, Sabines and Latins are arranged obliquely in relation to the chain, therefore they contribute to the partition of the regional spaces.