Il Santuario di Apollo Pizio a Cirene nel contesto storico-politico e socio-economico della polis in età greca. Tra urbanistica e architettura, tra culti pubblici e culti privati

During the Greek period the Cyrenean Sanctuary of Apollo Pizius has been expanding to the E (Garden of Aphrodite), to the S (Spring Terrace, previously external to the temenos) and to the W (Alsos of Apollo and Theatre). During the age of Battiades a unitary project took place in order to monumentalize the sacred area on the model of the Panhellenic sanctuaries of Olympia, Delphi and Delos. With the fall of the monarchy, works of urban impact were realized with the aim of delimiting and rationally organizing the sacred space. In this phase, the lower strata of the community gain power, emphasizing cults previously not documented by monumental remains. In the 4th century BC the temenos reaches his final limits, but with a gradual loss of the previous organicity, due to the construction of new sacred, celebratory and utilitarian buildings, which reflect the new needs of the ruling class. In the Hellenistic period, the structure of the sanctuary underwent radical transformations, with a multiplication of the monuments linked to the further increase in the political significance of the cult of Apollo, connected with the post-Alexandrian dynastic ideology, according to a polycentric conception of cultural activities that will characterize the complex until the end of his life.