Name: MARTINHO GUILHERME FONSECA SOARES
Type: MSc dissertation
Publication date: 20/08/2020
Advisor:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| GILVAN VENTURA DA SILVA | Advisor * |
Examining board:
| Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| BELCHIOR MONTEIRO LIMA NETO | Internal Examiner * |
| ÉRICA CRISTHYANE MORAIS DA SILVA | Internal Examiner * |
| GILVAN VENTURA DA SILVA | Advisor * |
Summary: This work discusses the representation elaborated by Homer and, by extension, by the men of that time, regarding the sea as a topophilia and topophobia place. The research is in charge of investigating the events which, narrated in the Odyssey, recover the Greek Dark Ages (Homers Period), period that extends from the 10th century AD to the 7th century AD, marked, above all, by the Greek exploitation of the Mediterranean Sea, who were responsible for founding, in those regions, their apoikiai, settlements mainly aimed to the agro-pastoral exploitation. The dissertation defends that, from such exploration activities and sea area domination, necessary for the establishment of those territories, a specific group of men called nautai were entrusted. It investigates the navigation techniques that the navigators disposed when dealing with the sea environment, bylaws and the association of its occupation to the employers of Athena, goddess who provided them with enough métis to build their vessels, to beat winds and storms that devastated the Western Mediterranean, tempests that emerge in narratives such as the work of Poseidon. It also investigates the relation between the nautai with this god. In conclusion, resorting to the Landscape Archeology, the Constructed Space Archeology and the Cult Archeology, sacred areas erected in the Sicilys apoikiai , the rites and cults established by the Greek founders who kept and reinforced, among these territories, the topophilia and topophobia originated from the sea area, respectively mediated by Athena and Poseidon are analyzed.
