Efestia in età arcaica: le relazioni tra l’acropoli e la necropoli

I return here to address the two key archaeological contexts, which document the culture of the Archaic period of Hephaestia: the acropolis and the necropolis. The archaeological record between the second half/end of the 8th and the end of the 6th century BC, reflects the great social transformations that throughout the Greek world accompanied the birth of the polis through the transition from structures with pre-political characteristics to forms of shared government, of an aristocratic and associative type: during this process, abruptly interrupted in Hephaestia around 500 BC, the adoption of certain cults and religious practices at the community level was decisive, becoming an identity reference for the community.