The "Artemis " is aimed at the protection of archaeological, anthropological, artistic, natural (flora & fauna of our area), etc. ... a mass set of science are complementary and indispensable to the knowledge of their environment and territory, sensitizing the population to respect at what surrounds us, holding out a breath of research and culture shaped purely by the force of youth. The project
Artemis provides the discovery, documentation, protection and notification of new sites and varied in relation to culture, environment, land ... The protection will also have to face at sites already fully known, through labor in excavation, restoration, reconnaissance ...
This can be divided into districts that currently provide for the common Castellaneta (as focal point), Laterza and Ginocchio in connection with that matter and agro Tarantino;
comes with a Blog (as present here), or in the future will bring an actual site or any web space, will lecture notes, research reports, fanzine information, conferences, meetings, exhibitions etc. ...
may also face meetings, lectures and guided tours for school groups , treating them not only for a speech to a broader cultural view, but also an instinctive respect and honor leaked to the environment and the land, their history and our present.
All this, just like a look of Artemis, the goddess who carries out the results of the life force, the one who accompanies and governs the genesis and fate of every natural entity.
N . B.: at the moment we expect the presence of persons who are outside the archaeological (excluding the town of Laterza), such as students, ie, future historians, botanists, anthropologists, architects, historians ...
(gr. IDOS-Artemis), the Greek goddess, daughter of Zeus and Leto, sister of Apollo, which is in a sense complementary, expressed in the dual relationship Brotherhood and opposition. As Apollo is "solar", A. is lunar, each acting in the light, in the city, in the order of Zeus, while the other acts in the dark in the forest, outside civic order (or Zeus). This explains the character of a woman who is not married, the queen of the night sometimes to assimilate to the queen of the underworld, the wild hunter who lives in the woods dialectically opposed to the city, the patron of witches and cults night of that world, that is, that seems removed from the empire of Zeus. Apollo also connect to the old rites of passage, in which A. represents the time of adolescence, while Apollo shows young adulthood already begun. Figure A. Greece comes from an older conception of "animal lady", and be precosmico primordial patron saint of hunters and hunter herself. The world of "Lord of animals," populated by nymphs and other sylvan beings, is that before the civil life in the city. It is the world that led to the city. So A. helps to be born men (he was the protector of the parties) and helps them to be reborn in the condition of adults. The Romans assimilated A. with their goddess Diana.
Iconography In the age of most ancient is often depicted with wings, about to shake their legs real or imaginary animals. Following the prevalent iconography of the goddess hunter with a long tunic, flowing hair, bow and quiver. Often, the goddess is pictured with her brother Apollo. In large sculptural friezes of Sifnos Treasury at Delphi, the Parthenon and the Pergamon Altar, A. fights against the Giants on the other side. In the Hellenistic period is represented with a short chiton in the act of hunting, accompanied by various animals (Artemis of Versailles, Paris, Louvre). This type continues in the depiction of the Roman period. A particular aspect is the illustrations by the author. dell'Artemísion of Ephesus, the Hellenistic period (Naples, National Archaeological Museum): The goddess has a tower on his head, adorned with the nimbus of griffins, a large series in which you have several rows of breasts (now better understood as bull testicles ), a chiton that narrows toward the bottom decorated with reliefs depicting flowers, fruits, animals, real and fantastic. "
From Gede, encyclopedia DeAgostini, 1995
Why then Artemis:
- Goddess of mystery (the darkness and confusion of the mystery as a mystery archeology)
- Goddess of "Socratic" (helps to give birth, as Socrates helped give birth to knowledge)
- goddess of growth and fate (cultural, tourism, learning ....)
- Mrs. Dea animal (be precosmico and primordial)
- goddess of hunting (the night stalker: the hunt in the mystery, new discoveries, reports)