## 2 Experience of the Past and the Present through _Gamified Perceptive_ Storytelling
### Historical Background: The Temple [PERSON] and the Poseidonia's Landscape  
The original name of Paestum was Poseidonia; it was a Greek colony founded on the west coast of Italy, 80 km south of Naples. It was a very important trade center, first conquered by the Lucanians and then, in the III century BC, the city became an important Roman colony with the Latin name Paestum. Today, it is one of the most important archaeological sites due to its preserved Greek temples [71]. According to [PERSON] [72], _Poseidonia_ was founded by Greek colonists coming from Sibari; the date of Poseidonia's founding is not given by ancient sources, but the archaeological evidence: approximately the 600 BC [73]. The colonists built fortifications on the coast before moving inland to build their city. Between the VI and V centuries BC, the city was planned out in a precise grid pattern and surrounded by walls. In the central part of the city, in a space of about 10 hectares, a large _agora_ was built--the political heart of the city. Inside it, the most representative public monuments could be found: the _heroon_, dated around 520-510 BC, dedicated to [PERSON], the mythical founder of the city, the _ekdlesisterion_, built around 480-470 BC for political assemblies and the temple of [PERSON] (Figure 3). The colony prospered so that by the VI century BC there was an important sanctuary [74] in the countryside (locality of Foce del Sele) as well as and monumental temples [71]. In the southern sanctuary two Doric temples were erected, the oldest one, the [PERSON] of the 550 BC, named  
Figure 3: Aerial view of Paestum, looking northwest; two Hera Temples in foreground, Athena Temple in background, the modern museum on right. Copyright © [PERSON] (Source: Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0. [[https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=21788866](https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=21788866)]([https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=21788866](https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=21788866))). Figure 2: Screenshots taken from the virtual reality (VR) application of ArkaeVision _Archav_: (**a**) exterior of the naos in the present day and (**b**) interior of the _naos_ in the fifth century BC with the priestess [PERSON]. Copyright © Digitalcomoedia. by archaeologists in the 18 th century \"the Basilica\" because someone mistakenly believed it to be a Roman building and the [PERSON], also known as the Temple of Neptune (it also is possible that the temple originally was dedicated to both [PERSON] and [PERSON]), built around 460 BC [75]. On the highest point of the town, far away from the Hera Temples going north way, the Temple of Athena can be found. It was built around 500 BC, and it was incorrectly associated with Ceres. In the late fifth century BC, Poseidonia was attacked by the Lucanians, a population of Samnite warriors, coming from the hinterland. The conquerors, who changed the name of the city to _Paiston_, respected spaces and functions of the places of the Greek city [76]. The monumental and best preserved of temples at Paestum is the so-called **Temple of Neptune**, built in the Doric order around 460-450 BC, though it was almost certainly dedicated to [PERSON] [77] -the subject of ArkaeVision Archeo reconstructed environment. The frontal view of the temple shows that the entablature is complete. However, no traces of suitable statues have been found anywhere at Paestum and it is clear that the pediment was not carved (Figure 4). However, it may have been painted, and would have given a rather different impression from its gaunt seriousness today (Figure 5). The temple, built with local limestone, stands on a crepidine of three steps and has a cell with _pronaos_ and _opisthodomos_, both in _antis_ (sort of gates to access the temple) [78]. It is a Doric temple with six columns along its shorter sides and fourteen columns along its longer sides.