STREET FOOD
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Written by students from Paolo Borsellino School Mazara Class 3rd D Paolo Agrusa Wasim Alaya Giorgia Arone Giulia Castiglione Aya Chatti Antonio Davoli Marco Diliberti Federica Marino Laura Fanella Antonio Giacalone Sara Indelicato Giovanni La Paola Valentina Lamia Virna Molinari Alice Mondonuovo Salvatore Orofino Giada Parrinello Miriam Russo Ivan Sinacori Illustated by English teacher Rocco Spanò
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Contents Pag. 4 A thermopolium Pag. 5 Akhilleus and his family Pag. 6 Macedonios Pag. 7 Riccardo Pag. 8
Emanuele
Pag. 9
Andre
Pag. 10
The Journey to Lleida
Pag. 11 Manolito and Aleandro Pag. 12 THE GREEKS IN SICILY Pag. 13 SELINUNTE Pag. 15 Bibliography
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A THERMOPOLIUM
In the ancient Greek-Roman world, a thermopolium from Greek θερμοπώλιον, cook-shop literally "a place where hot food is sold", was a commercial establishment where it was possible to purchase ready-to-eat food. These places were mainly used by the poor people or those who simply could not afford a private kitchen. They cooked fish, hot cereal soup and make very good garlic bread. They put some oil in bread and sometimes meat.
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Akhilleus and his family
Akhilleus is a blond and tall guy. He has brown and big eyes. He is 16 years old. He likes playing yo-yo and tag of war with his friends, but his favourite activity is cooking. He is a gentle, creative and active guy. Akhilleus helps his mother in the kitchen and he likes to create new recipes. His father, Macedonios, is an aedo, he is a professional singer, he is tall and he has white hair and green eyes. He is a good man. His mother, Nymphodora, is housewife, she has blond hair and brown eyes, like her son. She is a gentle mother.
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Macedonios
Macedonios is singing about the old time in Greece. Aedo, in ancient Greece, was a professional singer. The Greek word aoidos (ἀοιδός) referred to a classical Greek singer. He was a sacred figure, he was considered a prophet, traditionally portrayed as blind, so he was not distracted by anything or anyone and honing the sensitive capacity he could come into contact directly with the gods who inspired him. The wisdom that had made him the ability to see superfluous, was a "fanatic", had the god within, the Muses spoke through him. He was part of the so-called face-to-face society; the transmission of the texts was done orally, with a "performance" in which he was in direct contact with the audience. He had a historical memory function he also knew the past, the present and the future.
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Riccardo
Akhilleus’ best friend, is Riccardo, he is 16 years old, like Akhilleus. Riccardo is a tall guy. He has brown hair and black eyes. He likes cooking, like his best friend. His father and his mother, Anselmo and Cristiana, are aedi and they work with Macedonios. Anselmo is a big man. He has black hair and brown eyes, but he is a gentle man. Cristiana has blond hair and black eyes, she is a good mother. Akhilleus and Riccardo work with Andre and Emanuele. They cook street food for people and they all like their food. It is delicious!
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Emanuele
Emanuele is a tall and thin man. He has green eyes and brown hair. He is 35 years old. He is a cook, and he is very creative. He is a gentle man and he is very active. He cooks street food for people with Andre, Akhilleus and Riccardo.
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Andre
Andre is a Greek man but he lives in Selinunte, he is 30 years old. He is tall and thin and he has curly hair and brown eyes. He loves cooking and with his best friends, Emanuele, Akhilleus and Riccardo, cook for poor people. Andre’s father is an important man in Selinunte and he has big ship. One day Andre’s father asks if he and his friends would like to go to Lleida in Spain and teach them how to help poor people to cook food in the streets. They are happy to go there, so after a few days they left from Selinunte.
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The Journey to Lleida
Akhilleus and Riccardo, leave by boat with their two friends, Andre and Emanuele. They leave from Sicily to Lleida. They start their journey from Selinunte .They leave by boat. First, they go to Barcelona. They start their journey to Lleida. After they look for an accommodation to stay for the night. The next day they start looking for an open space to cook their streetfood. They arrive near the Cathedral and they started cooking. They engaged two Spanish boy Manuelito and Aleandro.
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Manolito and Aleandro
They live in Lleida. They are good cookers, but they haven’t a place where they can cook. Manolito is 20 years old. He is tall and thin. He has blond hair and green eyes. He is gentle and generous. Aleandro is 20 years old, like Manuelito, but he is a big men. He has black hair and brown eyes. He is gentle, too. They are friends and they are looking for a work. Akhilleus, Riccardo, Emanuele and Andre with Manuelito and Aleandro open a street-food. They cook very well.
THE GREEKS IN SICILY
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Many of the greatest Greek myths, and some of the greatest Greek temples and amphitheatres, are Sicilian. Within a few centuries of its foundation, the Sicilian city of Syracuse (Siracusa), the birthplace of Archimedes, came to rival Athens in power and prestige. Beyond the islets of the Aegean
Sea, Greek influence enveloped the islands of Cyprus and Crete and France and Spain. The Ionians were the first Greeks to establish a permanent presence in Sicily, where they encountered an Italic society, the Sicels, hence the Greeks' name for the island, Sikelia. A group arrived to found Naxos (near Taormina) around 734 BC. This is the first permanent Greek settlement in Sicily. What followed was a rapid colonization on a large scale. Syracuse (Siracusa) was founded a few years afterward by colonists from Corinth. The foundation of Zancle (Messina) followed about the same time. Near both these localities were earlier ports --in some form-- already known to Greek navigators. A number of other colonies sprung up along the Ionian coast about this time, Megara (or Megara Hyblaea, near Augusta) prominent among these: this settlement was established in 728 BC by immigrants from Megara in Greece. Katane (Catania) was settled around the same time. Colonists from Rhodes and Crete founded Gela during the same period. Selinus (Selinunte) was founded in the following century. Akragas (Agrigento) is a younger city, established around 580 BC by citizens of Gela. The Elymian city of Egesta (Segesta) was gradually Hellenized during this same general period. A number of communities that had flourished under the Sicanians, Elymians or Sicels were assimilated by the Greeks in the following centuries.
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SELINUNTE
Selinunte is the only classical Greek city where the entire metropolis is still preserved, mainly buried under sand and earth. Selinunte was one of the most important of the Greek colonies in Sicily, situated on the southwest coast of that island, at the mouth of the small river of the same name, and 6.5 km west of that of the Hypsas (the modern Belice River). It was founded, according to the historian Thucydides, by a colony from the Sicilian city of Megara, or Megara Hyblaea, under the conduct of a leader named Pammilus, about 100 years after the settlement of that city, with the addition of a fresh body of colonists from the parent city of Megara in Greece. Selinunte was the most westerly of the Greek colonies in Sicily, and for this reason was early brought into contact and collision with the Carthaginians and the native Sicilians in the west and northwest of the island. The former people, however, do not at first seem to have offered any obstacle to their progress; but as early as 580 BCE we find the Selinuntines engaged in hostilities with the people of Segesta (a non-Hellenic city), whose territory bordered on their own. The city is beside the sea, between the Modione River (the ancient Selinus) in the west and the Cottone River in the east, on two high areas connected by a saddle. The part of the city to the south, next to the sea, contains the acropolis which is based around two intersecting streets and contains many temples (A, B, C, D, O). The part of the city to the north, further inland, contained housing on the Hippodamian plan contemporary with the acropolis and two necropoleis (Galera-Bagliazzo and Manuzza). Other important remains are found on the high places across the rivers to the east and west of the city. In the east there are three temples (E, F, G) and a necropolis (Buffa) north of the modern village of Marinella. In the west are the most ancient remains of Selinus: the Sanctuary of the Malophoros and the archaic necropolis (Pipio, Manicalunga, Timpone Nero). The two ports of the city were in the mouths of the city's two rivers. The hinterland Selinuntino consisted of fertile plains where agriculture was practiced lush, with abundant production of cereals, mainly wheat, and oil and the production of ceramics. If agriculture was prosperous, it was no less prosperous trade. Located on the border with the western part of Sicily Selinunte had business relations not only with the Greek colonies but also, in times of peace, with Mozia, Segesta and Carthage.
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The modern Archaeological park, which covers about 40 hectares can therefore be divided into the following areas: The Acropolis at the centre with temples and fortifications Gaggera Hill in the West, with the sanctuary of Malophoros Mannuzza Hill in the north with ancient housing The East Hill in the east, with other temples The necropoleis
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Bibliography Laura Buccino, I caratteri generali della colonizzazione greca in Occidente Moses I. Finley, Storia della Sicilia antica Francesco Alaimo, La leggenda di Akragas, I greci in Occidente: Magna Grecia e Sicilia Gioacchino Francesco La Torre, Sicilia e Magna Grecia.
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