RESTITUTA VETERE LOCORUM: AS LOCALIZAÇÕES E AS APROPRIAÇÕES DAS CASSITÉRIDES NUMA PERSPECTIVA HISTORIOGRÁFICA (original) (raw)

RESTITUTA VETERE LOCORUM: AS LOCALIZAÇÕES E AS APROPRIAÇÕES DAS CASSITÉRIDES NUMA PERSPECTIVA HISTORIOGRÁFICA

The Place name Cassiterides (Tin Islands) is mentioned for the first time in Herodotus' Histories (5th Century BC). This author does not provide a precise location, but later texts locate these islands in front of the Northwestern Iberia' s coast. In this paper we analyse the possible sources of acquaintance about these territories in the Archaic period, within the context of a "Geography of the Resources". We also analyse the modern reception of those texts, where it is stated that the Cassiterides were located on the Scilly Islands or in Galicia. These hypotheses were based on the exegesis of literary sources, as well as on the etymology of the Place name and related words. We discuss the archaeological data recently studied within the Estrimnides Project, which reinforce the idea that the Cassiterides were located on the Galician shores.