Il contributo della coroplastica per la ricostruzione del pantheon di Akrai (Sicilia).

In the field of the history of ancient religions, coroplastic art provides one of the greatest contributions of useful information for the reconstruction of the pantheon in the ancient Greek poleis. Akrai, a sub-colony founded by Syracuse in 664 BC on the Hyblaean mountains, is proposed as a study paradigm. Inside the archaeological Collection formed by Baron Gabriele Judica (1760-1835), the first explorer of the ancient city near Palazzolo Acreide, and today exhibited in the halls of the small Civic Museum, there are many clay specimens that indicate how much Greek and Oriental cults had a variegated and diachronic presence, from foundation to the Roman age. Analyzing some specimens present there and others exhibited in other museums, one can guess the religious horizon of the ancient residents, squeezed between an earthly existence linked to agriculture and their unshakable faith in the Olympic deities.