Xystos
Xystos ( Greek ξυστός ) refers to the covered career among the Greeks, which in the Greek gymnasium was next to the dromos or the peridromides ( περιδρόμιδες ), sometimes also the entire gymnasion.
According to Vitruvius , the Xystus was a colonnade with the Romans , next to which uncovered, plane tree-lined paths ran, which Vitruvius identified with the Peridromides, but called Xysti .
After all, the Xystus as an avenue was an integral part of Roman gardens, and it generally runs parallel to a colonnade ( portico or cryptoporticus ). There are many sources of evidence about these walking paths, but due to their nature they are rarely documented archaeologically, for example in the Villa Romana del Casale .
literature
- Reinhard Förtsch : Archaeological commentary on the villa letters of the younger Pliny . von Zabern, Mainz 1993, ISBN 3-8053-1317-9 ( contributions to the development of Hellenistic and Imperial Sculpture and Architecture 13).
- Andri Gieré: Hippodromus and Xystus. Investigations into Roman garden forms. Dissertation Zurich 1986
- Christoph Höcker : Metzler Lexicon of Ancient Architecture. 2nd edition Metzler, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-476-02294-3 . P. 289
- Adolf Lippold : Xystos 1). In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 5, Stuttgart 1975, column 1441 f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pausania's description of Greece 6.23.1
- ↑ Vitruv de architectura 5.11.4: haec autem porticus χυστος apud Graecos vocitatur, quod athletae per hiberna tempora in tectis stadiis exercentur. proxime autem xystum et duplicem porticum designentur hypaethroe ambulationes, quas Graeci παραδρομιδας, nostri xysta appellant, in quas per hiemem ex xysto sereno caelo athletae prodeuntes exercentur. faciunda autem xysta sic videntur ut sint inter duas porticus silvae aut platanones et in his perficiantur inter arbores ambulationes ibique ex opere signino stationes. post xysta autem stadium ita figuratum ut possint hominum copiae cum laxamento athletas certantes spectare. The section is not entirely clear.
- ↑ Pliny the Younger Epistulae 2.17.17; 5.6.16