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![-As in the Figure 1, Pompeii in the map offered by https://it-ch.topographicmap.com . Many thanks to the site for the precious instrument, based on the works by Yamazaki D., D. Ikeshima, R. Tawatari, T. Yamaguchi, F. O'Loughlin, J.C. Neal, C.C. Sampson, S. Kanae & P.D. Bates (2017) [7].](profile/Amelia-Carolina-Sparavigna/publication/351601797/figure/fig2/AS:1031369966764034@1622909170451/As-in-the-Figure-1-Pompeii-in-the-map-offered-by-https-it-chtopographicmapcom.png)
-As in the Figure 1, Pompeii in the map offered by https://it-ch.topographicmap.com . Many thanks to the site for the precious instrument, based on the works by Yamazaki D., D. Ikeshima, R. Tawatari, T. Yamaguchi, F. O'Loughlin, J.C. Neal, C.C. Sampson, S. Kanae & P.D. Bates (2017) [7].
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In the Chapter VI of a book by Heinrich Nissen, entitled Das Templum, 1869, we can find the author claiming the Nolan Street of Pompeii had been aligned according to the sunrise on summer solstices. Here we discuss how Nissen justified his thought. We will see in particular his point of view about the orientation according to sunrise as rebuked by...
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... In some previous discussions [22][23][24], we have considered Heinrich Nissen (1839Nissen ( -1912, German scholar of Ancient History, and his contributions about the orientation of the decumanus, the main axis of Roman land subdivision of a colony or a town. Nissen considered only a solar orientation, that is, an orientation of the decumanus, which was -as previously told -along the direction of the sunrise on the foundation day. ...
Alexandria of Egypt was founded by Alexander the Great. The layout of the town was based on a grid of streets, crossing at right angle. The main street was the Dromos, also known as Canopic Road. Here we consider this road and the astronomical orientations of it, as given by literature. Solar orientations had been considered by Martin Erdmann in 1883, in the framework of a theory proposed by Heinrich Nissen in 1869. Nissen, defined by Clive Ruggles as one of first modern archaeoastronomers, answered proposing an orientation according to the rising of Canopus and Regulus, the heart of the Lion. More recently, the orientation of the Canopic Road was linked to the sunrise on Alexander's birthday. However, in this case, chronology becomes relevant for the conversion from a lunisolar calendar to the proleptic Julian calendar. Actually, it is impossible to give the precise date of Alexander's birthday.
Kainua è il il nuovo nome ora associato al sito etrusco presso Marzabotto e significa Neapolis. Iniziamo uno studio sulla letteratura riguardante tale sito da quanto disse Francis John Haverfield di Marzabotto, nel suo Ancient Town-Planning (1913, Oxford: Clarendon). Si parlerà anche del templum inaugurale, in relazione alle planimetrie assiali, come discusse da Ferdinando Castagnoli. Un'altra famosissima Neapolis, Napoli, verrà considerata. La città ha anche lei, come Kainua, la planimetria basata su tre decumani. Verrà anche fatto il confronto con una città, Torino, che ha la tipica planimetria romana, basata su decumano e cardine massimi, planimetria radicalmente diversa da quella di Kainua. Si discuterà anche l'arx di Kainua e la sua orientazione astronomica. Sempre per confronto, con mappe topografiche, si mostrerà la collina di Sant'Elmo (Napoli) e Spaccanapoli, ma anche la sua acropoli Caponapoli. Per Torino si suggerirà il Monte dei Cappuccini come arx.
Decumani, sorgere del sole e data di nascita delle città italiche, li troviamo nel Der Gottesdienst der Griechen di Friedrich Nietzsche. Il testo contiene le lezioni sul culto greco che Nietzsche tenne tra il 1875 e il 1878. Esse furono le ultime della sua carriera di docente di filologia classica a Basilea. Per le lezioni, Nietzsche si basò sicuramente sul Das Templum di Heinrich Nissen, pubblicato nel 1869. Proprio dal Das Templum, Nietzsche estrasse le sue considerazioni sui decumani, le vie principale delle città romane, orientati col sorgere del sole.
