Abstract
Although since the Bronze Age we have the evidence that the Aegean and the Mediterranean where crossed by Greek and Aegean people establishing different sailing routes, it will be during the Archaic Greek period that an intensification of the movements of Greeks towards the West in connection with trade and the foundation of colonies will take place. The objective of this paper is to reconstruct the Locrians’ journey towards the south of Italy to found a colony, Epizephyrian Locris and to find out the possible routes that they could had followed considering that in addition to coastal navigation they practiced the open-sea navigation with the aid of the latitude-sealing techniques and the stars observation.
Highlights
Since the Bronze Age we have the evidence that the Aegean and the Mediterranean where crossed by Greek and Aegean people establishing different sailing routes, it will be during the Archaic Greek period that an intensification of the movements of Greeks towards the West in connection with trade and the foundation of colonies will take place
The objective of this paper is to reconstruct the Locrians’ journey towards the south of Italy to found a colony, Epizephyrian Locris and to find out the possible routes that they could had followed considering that in addition to coastal navigation they practiced the open-sea navigation with the aid of the latitude-sealing techniques and the stars observation
Los colonos locrios pudieron seguir una segunda ruta para la que habría que modificar el rumbo hacia el Oeste mucho antes de llegar a Corcira, desde el golfo de Ambracia, una vez atravesado el estrecho paso entre el continente griego y la isla de Léucade
Summary
Since the Bronze Age we have the evidence that the Aegean and the Mediterranean where crossed by Greek and Aegean people establishing different sailing routes, it will be during the Archaic Greek period that an intensification of the movements of Greeks towards the West in connection with trade and the foundation of colonies will take place. El primer asentamiento locrio en la costa jónica del sur de Italia, previo a la fundación Locris, no fue en el lugar donde se habría de levantar la colonia, sino que, como menciona también Estrabón (6.1-7), estuvo en el Cabo Cefirio (actual cabo Bruzzano) y después de algún tiempo, que podemos cifrar en tres o cuatro años, se trasladó veinte kilómetros hacia el Noreste para fundar Locris Epicefiria, entre los ríos Portigliola y Gerace.
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