L’agorà-forum di Alesa Arconidea: la fase di età giulio-claudia

The ancient center of Alesa Arconidea, founded in 403 BC, was one of the first cities to give full and unconditional support to the Romans when they landed in Sicily in 264 BC to wage the First Punic War. This action allowed the city to gain in exchange great privileges, starting from the administrative autonomy which was reconfirmed under Augustus when the city became a municipium. Alesa, which was already flourishing with its commercial and entrepreneurial activities, forged further strong ties with Rome, becoming one of its most loyal cities. The new Roman presence in the city center was made visible through tangible signs and forms of representation that found their primary expression in the chief monument of the city, the agora, which became a forum. With this contri- bution we intend to focus our attention on the transformations that took place in the monument in this phase, where spaces were adapted according to the new needs of the Roman institutional presence. In analyzing these transformations, the contribution provided by the use of information technologies, according to a methodology based on the verification and synthesis of analytical data pertinent to archaeological research, was fun- damental.