La Σελινουντία δυσχωρία: διὰ τῶν στενῶν, per ipsas fauces. Dalle fonti alle nuove proposte di identificazione sul terreno.

Fabrizio Ducati (1, 2)

1 CCJ - Centre Camille Jullian - Histoire et archéologie de la Méditerranée et de l'Afrique du Nord de la protohistoire à la fin de l'Antiquité
2 Università degli studi di Palermo - University of Palermo

Among the events that occurred in Sicily during the First Punic War, the historians remember the Asdrubal's army march from Lilybaeum to Palermo across the Σελινουντία δυσχωρία. What might appear as a minor detail aroused the interest of scholars, who tried to identify this impervious region in Palermo's rugged mountains over the centuries. Nevertheless, is it possible to localize nowadays the passes the Carthaginian army crossed? This paper tries to answer this question through Palermo's mountains geomorphology examination supported by an in-deep historical and archival data analysis concerning the ancient paths linking Palermo to the southern coast of Sicily.

Keywords: Sicily; Hasdrubal; Palermo; Selinus; Lilybaeum; Punic Wars; ancient paths; landscape archaeology

Domains: Humanities and Social Sciences; History; Humanities and Social Sciences; Archaeology and Prehistory

Fabrizio Ducati. La Σελινουντία δυσχωρία: διὰ τῶν στενῶν, per ipsas fauces. Dalle fonti alle nuove proposte di identificazione sul terreno.. Journal of Ancient Topography, In press, 31, pp.263-272. ⟨hal-03385224⟩