‘Sistemi’ coloniali e definizioni identitarie: le ‘colonie sorelle’ della Sicilia orientale e della Calabria meridionale

The paper deals with a case-study drawn from the framework of researches on Greek “secondary colonisation”. It falls within the earlier horizons of Greek colonisation and concerns the settlements proomoted by Chalcidians from Euboea and from Chalcidian Cumae in Campania in Sicily and in Southern Italy immediately across the Straits of Messina. Focusing on such an early and strongly intertwined set of foundations can yield a more nuanced reading of the forms and ways of the Greek colonial experience in terms of the relations of colonial settlements, of the processes of territorial organization of sites and of the shaping of their identity.