Ligurie e Antichi Liguri
secondo gli scrittori greci e latini, l’archeologia e le iscrizioni antiche
The book allows us to discover the populations that first the Greeks and then the Romans called Ligurians in Spain, France, Italy and elsewhere.
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The author published in 2009 the second edition of the book “Gli antichi Liguri e le Ligurie, la Val Bormida e Roccavignale. Alla ricerca delle radici comuni dall’età della pietra ad oggi”.
The 2nd volume of the Series “Il cigno: Due passi sui sentieri della storia ligure” was published in 2012 (with reprint in 2013); the title is: “Navigare rende curiosi. Cristoforo Colombo e Amerigo Vespucci secondo i loro scritti autografi e le testimonianze di chi li conobbe personalmente”.
Now, in this third volume of the Series, almost all ancient Greek and Latin texts on the Liguri (Ligurians) are published by author and in chronological order. So we discover that the names "Liguria" and "Liguri" – in the different designations on pages 167-171 – appear for the first time only in Greek sources starting from the VII century b. C.
In such documents the Ligurians are described as one of most ancient populations in Italy and even in the West of Europe. They are autochthonous of West Europe because they are the descendants from the first hunters and those of the Neolithic. There is a continuity of the settlement from the Palaeolithic to the arrival of the first Greeks in the Ligurian territory in the West. The Greeks identified them by their specific characteristics as residents in small simple communities without king, without priests or nobles and without castes such as the nomadic Gauls.
The Ligurian householders took decisions in democratic reunions and knew how to defend their lands from the foreign invaders fighting, singing and dancing. The ancient Ligurians kept the bones of their dead as the first hunters of the Palaeolithic. This demonstrated their sedentariness and their devotion to a particular atavic territory.
While the Gauls were wiped off by the Romans, the Romans always appreciated the military value of the Ligurians who were enlisted in their cohorts.
The 2nd volume of the Series “Il cigno: Due passi sui sentieri della storia ligure” was published in 2012 (with reprint in 2013); the title is: “Navigare rende curiosi. Cristoforo Colombo e Amerigo Vespucci secondo i loro scritti autografi e le testimonianze di chi li conobbe personalmente”.
Now, in this third volume of the Series, almost all ancient Greek and Latin texts on the Liguri (Ligurians) are published by author and in chronological order. So we discover that the names "Liguria" and "Liguri" – in the different designations on pages 167-171 – appear for the first time only in Greek sources starting from the VII century b. C.
In such documents the Ligurians are described as one of most ancient populations in Italy and even in the West of Europe. They are autochthonous of West Europe because they are the descendants from the first hunters and those of the Neolithic. There is a continuity of the settlement from the Palaeolithic to the arrival of the first Greeks in the Ligurian territory in the West. The Greeks identified them by their specific characteristics as residents in small simple communities without king, without priests or nobles and without castes such as the nomadic Gauls.
The Ligurian householders took decisions in democratic reunions and knew how to defend their lands from the foreign invaders fighting, singing and dancing. The ancient Ligurians kept the bones of their dead as the first hunters of the Palaeolithic. This demonstrated their sedentariness and their devotion to a particular atavic territory.
While the Gauls were wiped off by the Romans, the Romans always appreciated the military value of the Ligurians who were enlisted in their cohorts.