{"id":2197,"date":"2022-05-26T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyclae.it\/the-origins\/"},"modified":"2023-03-30T08:05:43","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T08:05:43","slug":"the-origins","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.amyclae.it\/en\/the-origins\/","title":{"rendered":"THE ORIGINS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-4j8ec7-46726ee759682a4a072071cfe8d36582\">\n.avia-section.av-4j8ec7-46726ee759682a4a072071cfe8d36582{\nbackground-repeat:no-repeat;\nbackground-image:url(https:\/\/www.amyclae.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Le-origini.jpg);\nbackground-position:50% 50%;\nbackground-attachment:scroll;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div id='av_section_1'  class='avia-section av-4j8ec7-46726ee759682a4a072071cfe8d36582 main_color avia-section-default avia-no-shadow  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_one_full  avia-builder-el-first  avia-full-stretch avia-bg-style-scroll av-minimum-height av-minimum-height-50 av-height-50  container_wrap fullsize'  data-section-bg-repeat='stretch' data-av_minimum_height_pc='50' data-av_min_height_opt='50'><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><main  role=\"main\" itemprop=\"mainContentOfPage\"  class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-2197'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'><\/div><\/div><\/main><!-- close content main element --><\/div><\/div><div id='after_section_1'  class='main_color av_default_container_wrap container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-2197'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-d9aa7-2f6b85b0096ec60d1d8dcaa4de012937\">\n#top .flex_column.av-d9aa7-2f6b85b0096ec60d1d8dcaa4de012937{\nmargin-top:-200px;\nmargin-bottom:0px;\n}\n.flex_column.av-d9aa7-2f6b85b0096ec60d1d8dcaa4de012937{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:30px 30px 30px 30px;\nbackground-color:#fffef7;\n}\n.responsive #top #wrap_all .flex_column.av-d9aa7-2f6b85b0096ec60d1d8dcaa4de012937{\nmargin-top:-200px;\nmargin-bottom:0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-d9aa7-2f6b85b0096ec60d1d8dcaa4de012937 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_section  el_before_av_button_big  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  first flex_column_div  '     ><p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-l390axqo-e10461608b660ecdc56f64012c09f5c2\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-l390axqo-e10461608b660ecdc56f64012c09f5c2{\npadding-bottom:20px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-l390axqo-e10461608b660ecdc56f64012c09f5c2 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-l390axqo-e10461608b660ecdc56f64012c09f5c2 .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-l390axqo-e10461608b660ecdc56f64012c09f5c2 av-special-heading-h1 blockquote modern-quote modern-centered  avia-builder-el-2  el_before_av_hr  avia-builder-el-first '><h1 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Amyclae, <br \/>mythical city of the south Pontine<\/h1><div class='av-subheading av-subheading_below'><p>Did it ever exist?<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-oybz-226241b479735c7e1126610e021b3889\">\n#top .hr.av-oybz-226241b479735c7e1126610e021b3889{\nmargin-top:10px;\nmargin-bottom:10px;\n}\n.hr.av-oybz-226241b479735c7e1126610e021b3889 .hr-inner{\nwidth:50px;\nborder-color:#624137;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-oybz-226241b479735c7e1126610e021b3889 hr-custom  avia-builder-el-3  el_after_av_heading  el_before_av_textblock  hr-center hr-icon-no'><span class='hr-inner inner-border-av-border-thin'><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-3c16on-f95f6a3f5126c737d6693f3e84de042f '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: center;\">In many Latin texts there is a reference to a mythical city by the name of <strong>Amyclae,<\/strong> which some claim rose in an unspecified place between Terracina and Fondi, passing through Sperlonga. No one knows exactly where this phantom city was located, more cited than told, since all the writings that give it a semblance of reality speak of a city on the plain and, at least for what is visible, to date, there is none. trace.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>AMYCLAE: WHO SAYS HAVE FOUND IT<\/strong><br \/>\nIn February 2007, however, the study published the previous year by two university researchers, Lorenzo Quilici and Stefania Quilici Gigli, he and the University of Naples her, was relaunched by a thematic magazine, for which the remains were analyzed in the field of a fortified pre-Roman city that rises behind Fondi, the Roman Fundi founded later on the plain, whose etymological root releases this city from any hypothesis of twinning with the one that rose a little higher up. In the study, the connection between the fortified city and Amyclae is timidly risky, were it not for the fact that the word Amyclae was inserted nonchalantly in the official title of the research which obviously opened the door to the national relaunch of the news.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The traced walls rise on Monte Pianara, a limestone hill that reaches 300 m in height and is described by the two scholars as &#8220;mostly barren and strongly steep&#8221;, with slopes inclined between 25 \u00b0 and 30 \u00b0. The two researchers carried out a thorough inspection of the Pianara site, documenting step by step all the sides of what appears to be a polygonal fortification within which there was probably a town whose origins and history remain unknown to us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The fortification, for the purposes of the study, was divided into 46 observation segments in such a way as to carry out a <strong>meticulous reconnaissance work.<\/strong> Fragments of tiles, amphorae, doli, crockery have been found and found, and these <strong>fragments of recovered pottery<\/strong> have allowed us to date the invoice (V-IV century BC) thanks to the comparison with other finds of similar shape characterized in other areas of Italy . In this area, the two Quilici themselves admit that <strong>it is difficult to hazard objective hypotheses on the Roman and pre-Roman presence<\/strong> due to the scarce archaeological reconnaissance activity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1320 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.amyclae.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/amyclae-pianara-fondi-300x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"574\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.amyclae.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/amyclae-pianara-fondi-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.amyclae.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/amyclae-pianara-fondi.jpg 425w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 574px) 100vw, 574px\" \/><em><em>Pre-Roman walls found on Mount Pianara. Two researchers hypothesize to be part of the fortification of the mythical city of Amyclae [Source: Lacitt\u00e0difondi.it]<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Also mentioned in the study is the flourishing current <strong>agricultural activity<\/strong>, very prolific in the foundations, which is <em>&#8220;more entrepreneurial and devastating, as it is prepared with mechanical means that open new tracks and level reliefs, giving a new form, even cadastral, to the places &#8220;.<\/em> In fact,<strong>on the hill adjacent to that of Pianara<\/strong>, the two researchers write that it was no longer possible<em> <\/em><em>&#8220;Recognize any remains, <strong>while the old aerial surveys documented not a few structures [ancient, editor&#8217;s note]&#8221;<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">At the end of their research, Lorenzo Quilici and Stefania Quilici Gigli add that &#8220;[&#8230;] <em>on Mount Pianara we recognized a large city, which emerged at that time, albeit not yet in the most ancient phase, dominating the great plain, on the passes and on the vast lakes open to the sea. <strong>Perhaps the city on Mount Pianara could be identified precisely with Amyclae, which became legendary with its abandonment at the time of the development of the Roman city of Fondi.<\/strong><\/em>\u201d. This propensity to entrust the foundations of the national announcement of the discovery of Amyclae to probability, <strong>conflicts with no little stridency with the appropriately scientific attitude adopted during the reconnaissance of the Pianara site.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1318\" src=\"https:\/\/www.amyclae.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/pianara_amyclae-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"530\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.amyclae.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/pianara_amyclae-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.amyclae.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/pianara_amyclae.jpg 695w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Parts of the built-up area inside the fortification at the Pianara site, behind Fondi [Source: Lacitt\u00e0difondi.it]<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The study, however, remains an <strong>excellent work<\/strong> on the basis of a city which, if not Amyclae, could be studied as <em><strong>the polygonal walled city of the Ausoni Mountains.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">History is written and rewritten only thanks to the precious work of archaeologists, all the specific scientific studies and research in general, all preparatory steps to the discovery of that was really the genesis of each local tradition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">To read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/latinatu.it\/amyclae-citta-mitica-del-sud-pontino-e-mai-esistita\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n<div  class='avia-button-wrap avia-button-center  avia-builder-el-5  el_after_av_one_full  avia-builder-el-last '>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-6tzw7-d1c50d7f6774a8ab80241ff90a576f06\">\n#top #wrap_all .avia-button.av-6tzw7-d1c50d7f6774a8ab80241ff90a576f06:hover{\ncolor:white;\ntransition:all 0.4s ease-in-out;\n}\n<\/style>\n<a href='https:\/\/booking.ericsoft.com\/BookingEngine\/Book?idh=9B03A2045CF85B42&amp;lang=it&amp;cur=EUR' class='avia-color-theme-color avia-font-color-theme-color avia-button avia-button-fullwidth av-6tzw7-d1c50d7f6774a8ab80241ff90a576f06 avia-icon_select-yes-left-icon avia-color-theme-color' target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-label=\"Book Your Room Now!\"><span class='avia_button_icon avia_button_icon_left' aria-hidden='true' data-av_icon='\ue832' data-av_iconfont='entypo-fontello'><\/span><span class='avia_iconbox_title' >Book Your Room Now!<\/span><span class='avia_button_background avia-button avia-button-fullwidth avia-color-theme-color-highlight'><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":53,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2197","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Amyclae, mythical city of the south Pontine. did it ever exist?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Amyclae, mythical city of the south Pontine. did it ever exist? 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