Rediscovering Paestum

From: The Spectator | Date: October 25, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Rediscovering Paestum Russell Chamberlin on how the city was left to brigands and buffaloes

Paestum, 40km south of Salerno in southern Italy, is something of an enigma among Italian archaeological sites. It has never been a 'lost city', as is sometimes claimed. It's difficult to lose a city that has three enormous Greek temples towering above a narrow, fertile coastal plain for over 2,000 years. Founded by the Greeks as Poseidonia in the 7th century BC, taken over by the Romans who changed its name, it flourished until well into the 2nd and early 3rd centuries AD. Even as late as the 6th ...

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