LUCANIA

lookāˈnēə, ancient region of S Italy. It was bounded on the east by the Gulf of Tarentum (now Taranto) and by Apulia, on the north by Samnium and Campania, on the west by the Tyrrhenian Sea, and on the south by Bruttium. Italic tribes and Greek colonists lived there before the Roman conquest in the 3d cent. b.c. (see Magna Graecia). Their chief cities were Heraclea and Metapontum on the Gulf of Tarentum and Paestum and Buxentum on the Tyrrhenian coast. The non-Greek Lucanians were Samnites. The western portion of ancient Lucania is now in Campania; the larger eastern part is in Basilicata.

____________________

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Copyright© 2004, Columbia University Press. Licensed from Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products N.V. All rights reserved.

-28978-

Top...
Search the Library
Books
Journals
Magazines
Newspapers
Encyclopedia
Advanced Search
About Questia
Questia is the world's largest online academic library offering full-text books, journals, and articles on thousands of topics.

Join Now...
Questia Books and Articles on: Lucania
We found: 517 results
By media type:
 

Books:

 

465  

 

Journal articles:

 

12  

 

Magazine articles:

 

9  

 

Newspaper articles:

 

19  

 

Encyclopedia articles:

 

12  
 

books on: Lucania  - 465 results

       More book Results: 1-10 11-20 21-30 31-40 41-50 >>  
 
1.
The Foundations of Roman Italy
Book by Joshua Whatmough; Methuen, 1937
Subjects: Italy--Antiquities, Italy--History--To 476, Italy--Languages--Pre-Italic, Rome--History--To 510 B.C
CHAPTER XIV LUCANIA 1. BOUNDARIES THE ancient name has been recently revived to replace...where a large piece has been lost to Campania with the ancient Lucania. This Lucania of the Romans, together with the ager Bruttiorum now called Calabria...
2.
Landscapes and Cities: Rural Settlement and Civic Transformation in Early Imperial Italy
Book by John R. Patterson; Oxford University Press, 2006
Subjects: Cities And Towns, Ancient--Italy, Central, Cities And Towns, Ancient--Italy, Southern, Cities And Towns, Ancient--Rome, Italy--Antiquities, Roman, Land Settlement--Italy, Central--History, Land Settlement--Italy, Southern--History, Rome--History--Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D, Rome--Social Conditions, Urbanization--Rome
...ailing city of Cosa. Both Samnium and Lucania were far from Rome and character- ized...substan- tial body of survey evidence from Lucania, just to the south, indicates a continuity...significant difference between Samnium and Lucania was, however, the density (or otherwise...
3.
The Second Punic War: Being Chapters of the History of Rome by the Late Thomas Arnold ..
Book by Thomas Arnold, William T. Arnold; Macmillan, 1886
Subjects: Punic War, 2nd, 218-201 B.C
...Apulia, and with Gracchus, who was in Lucania, and whose army formed the link between...Hanno, the Carthaginian commander in Lucania, could not maintain his ground, but...above Suessula; Gracchus remained in Lucania, and Fabius the praetor wintered at Luceria...
4.
Lands, Laws & Gods: Magistrates & Ceremony in the Regulation of Public Lands in Republican Rome
Book by Daniel J. Gargola; University of North Carolina Press, 1995
Subjects: Agricultural Laws And Legislation (Roman Law), Public Lands--Rome
...five were found in the Tanager valley in Lucania, near Volcei, Atina, and Consilinum...leading to assignments in Campania and Lucania at some time between the election of Crassus...carried the via Annia into the interior of Lucania, and Tegianum lies within the same distance...
5.
Alan Lomax: Selected Writings, 1934-1997
Book by Ronald D. Cohen, Alan Lomax; Routledge, 2003
Subjects: Folk Music--United States--History And Criticism, Lomax, Alan--1915-
...ornamented in Oriental style, and in Lucania are often punctuated with shrieks, like...to the whole area, and a singer from Lucania (which is the area of greatest isolation...Albanian-speaking villages of Abruzzi, Lucania, and Calabria ( 64). But there may...
More book Results: 1-10 11-20 21-30 31-40 41-50 >>

Top...
 

journal articles on: Lucania  - 12 results

       More journal Results: 1-10 11-12 >>  
 
1.
Testing the Validity of Organic and Inorganic Thermal Indicators in Different Tectonic Settings from Continental Subduction to Collision: the Case History of the Calabria-lucania Border (Southern Apennines, Italy)
Journal article by S. Corrado, C. Invernizzi, L. Aldega, M. D'Errico, P. Di Leo, S. Mazzoli, M. Zattin; Journal of the Geological Society, Vol. 167, 2010
Subjects: Geology, Plate tectonics, Studies, Temperature
...Collision: the Case History of the Calabria-lucania Border (Southern Apennines, Italy...in footwall units). At the Calabria-Lucania border in southern Italy, two regional...inorganic indicators at the Calabria-Lucania border allows us to investigate: (1...
2.
The Complete Apennines Orogenic Cycle Preserved in a Transient Single Outcrop near San Fele, Lucania, Southern Italy
Journal article by Enrico Tavarnelli, Giacomo Prosser; Journal of the Geological Society, Vol. 160, 2003
Subjects: Geology, Italy, Plate tectonics
The Complete Apennines Orogenic Cycle Preserved in a Transient Single Outcrop near San Fele, Lucania, Southern Italy by Enrico Tavarnelli , Giacomo Prosser The repeated opening and closure of oceans along the same trends, and...
3.
Sociability and "Separate Spheres" on the North Atlantic: The Interior Architecture of British Atlantic Liners, 1840-1930
Journal article by Douglas Hart; Journal of Social History, Vol. 44, 2010
Subjects: Cruise lines--Design and construction, Interior design--Research, Public spaces--Design and construction, Public sphere--Research
...new Cunard express liners Campania and Lucania, commented that "The public rooms on...saloon to a dining saloon on Campania and Lucania is the result of a new surplus of public...music rooms.) (47) On Campania and Lucania (1893), the promenade deck in first...
4.
Carbon-isotope Stratigraphy of Cenomanian-turonian Platform Carbonates from the Southern Apennines (Italy): a Chemostratigraphic Approach to the Problem of Correlation between Shallow-water and Deep-water Successions
Journal article by Mariano Parente, Gianluca Frijia, Matteo Di Lucia; Journal of the Geological Society, Vol. 164, 2007
Subjects: Geological time, Geology, Stratigraphy
...areas (e.g. southern Campania and Lucania) are characterized by more continuous...Monte Coccovello (near Maratea, Lucania), Monteforte Cilento (south of Salerno...slopes of Monte Coccovello, near Maratea (Lucania). Its base can be dated as Hauterivian...
5.
The Impact of Environmental Improvements on Town Centre Regeneration
Journal article by Rosemary Bromley, Martin Hall, Colin Thomas; The Town Planning Review, Vol. 74, 2003
Subjects: Air pollution, Competition, Environmental economics, Retail stores, Shopping, Wholesale clubs
...canopies and lighting. The facE ade to the Lucania Buildings (1996/97) and the adjacent...within the upper floors of the improved Lucania buildings. Other publicly funded work...change in the town centre. The upgrade of Lucania Buildings won a Civic Trust Award in 1995...
More journal Results: 1-10 11-12 >>

Top...
 

magazine articles on: Lucania  - 9 results

       More magazine Results: 1-9 >>  
 
1.
Feeling on Top of the World: Stephen Venables Meets Bradford Washburn, a Photographer, Map-Maker, Museum Director and Mountaineer Who, at 91, Is Still Eager to Complete One Final Mission
Magazine article by Stephen Venables; Geographical, Vol. 73, November 2001
Subjects: Mountaineers--Conduct of life, Washburn, Bradford--Conduct of life
...Walter Wood, to make an attempt on Mount Lucania in 1936. Wood failed and pronounced Lucania impregnable. "That was all we needed...down the gauntlet, Washburn returned to Mt Lucania in 1937 with another Harvard mountaineering...
2.
An Organbuilder's Toolbox
Magazine article by Stephen L. Pinel; The Tracker, Vol. 53, Fall 2009
...in Birkenhead. He married Rosetta Bent of Hulme, Manchestef in 1898, and in 1907 emmigrated to New York on the S.S. Lucania, arriving at Ellis Island on June 23. He immediately traveled to Elmira to continue his work for Robert Hope-Jones (1859...
3.
Remembering Canada's Prince Robert: from Cruise Ship to Armed Merchant Cruiser
Magazine article by David B. Grover; Sea Classics, Vol. 40, July 2007
...interests in Italy, converted to a handsome passenger liner, and put into service between Italy and South America as the Lucania, a name that had been used for several other Italian liners. After this final metamorphosis, she no longer looked like a...
4.
The Tragic Fate of the World's First Superliner: Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse
Magazine article by Eric Schlemmel; Sea Classics, Vol. 35, June 2002
...She had been conceived and designed to take the cherished transatlantic Blue Riband away from Great Britains Cunard Lines LUCANIA. But, to win the long sought prize, the German supership would have to run at a sustained speed of more than twenty knots...
5.
When in Rome
Magazine article by Richard Hodges; History Today, Vol. 43, April 1993
Subjects: Historic sites--Management, Travel industry--Europe
...with disputes between the Northern Lombard League and the Mezzogiorno, The Other Italy. Carlo Levi, the painter exiled to Lucania in 1936, summons up the oft-heard opinion of the Mezzogiorno: speaking of the village people he writes: They have led...
More magazine Results: 1-9 >>

Top...
 

newspaper articles on: Lucania  - 19 results

       More newspaper Results: 1-10 11-19 >>  
 
1.
Lucania Luxury; Maritime Tales by Stephen Guy of Merseyside Maritime Museum
Newspaper article; Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England), February 14, 2009
Subjects: Maritime museums, Naval museums
Lucania Luxury; Maritime Tales by Stephen Guy...Stephen Guy THE beautiful Cunard liner Lucania offered the most luxurious First Class...tantalising film footage from 1901 showing Lucania at Liverpools landing stage. Crowds in...
2.
Win a Trip to the 'Real Italy'
Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), April 3, 2010
...Italian travel specialists My Italian Job, in conjunction with Lucania Living. Basilicata is one of Italys best-kept secrets...rustic restaurants, shops and a bustling village square. Lucania Living are dedicated to responsible tourism and support local...
3.
Richest Road in Region; Graham Davies Looks at Merseyside's Housing Boom
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), March 5, 2005
...April 1, 2000 and December 31, 2004, and taking an average. Lucania Street in Garston came at the bottom of the list, with an...from pounds 141,732 to pounds 229,861BOTTOM OF THE LADDER Lucania Street, Garston, pounds 17,750. Cullen Street, Wavertree...
4.
Flash Back: Review of the Fleet; Maritime TALES
Newspaper article; Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England), January 27, 2007
...famous HMS Dreadnought, was launched. Campania and her sister Lucania were ordered in 1891. They were Cunards response to recently...New York (1888). When launched in 1893, both Campania and Lucania were described as "the most magnificently appointed passenger...
5.
Cross Country Previews
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), September 1, 2006
...Gracia, jr; Anthony Selvaggio, so; Sean Doherty, fr; Nick Lucania, sr. Home course: Eldridge Park. Outlook: Immaculate Conception will enter the 2006 season with Lucania, who is recovering from a leg injury and should be back in late...
More newspaper Results: 1-10 11-19 >>

Top...
 

encyclopedia articles on: Lucania  - 12 results

       More encyclopedia Results: 1-10 11-12 >>  
 
1.
Lucania
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
LUCANIA looka ne , ancient region of S Italy. It was bounded on the east by the...The non-Greek Lucanians were Samnites. The western portion of ancient Lucania is now in Campania; the larger eastern part is in Basilicata...
2.
Lucania, Mount
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
LUCANIA, MOUNT 17,147 ft (5,226 m) high, in the St. Elias Mts., SW Yukon, Canada, near the Alaska line; Canadas third tallest...
3.
Italy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...which Italy was the core. Augustus divided Italy into 11 administrative regions (Latium and Campania, Apulia and Calabria, Lucania and Bruttium, Samnium, Picenum, Umbria, Etruria, Cispadane Gaul, Liguria, Venetia and Istria, Transpadane Gaul...
4.
Heraclea
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
HERACLEA her kle , ancient Greek city, in Lucania, S Italy, not far from the Gulf of Tarentum (Taranto). There Pyrrhus defeated the Romans in 280 b.c. Bronze tablets giving...
5.
Paestum
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PAESTUM pest m, ancient city of Lucania, S Italy. It was a colony of the Greek city of Sybaris (c.600 b.c.) and was first named Posidonia. It flourished with...
More encyclopedia Results: 1-10 11-12 >>

Top...
 About Questia   ::   Privacy   ::   Contact