Cultural Identities in the Roman World
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La relación entre los dioses y los mortales es un aspecto característico de la poesía épica, en la que las divinidades intervienen ya respaldando y amparando las acciones humanas, ya estorbando y obstaculizando su realización. En la... more
Collective identity in the so-called Byzantine Empire is a much-debated issue that has drawn a lot of attention over the years. The current paper attempts a critical assessment of the hitherto main lines of thinking about Byzantine... more
//This thesis hopes to demonstrate how Alaric and his Goths were Romans in virtually all that is known about them. To do this, the author has drawn from the social sciences to take the conceptual scope of the eminent sociologist Pierre... more
ÖNSÖZ Ölüm, arkeolojinin en verimli konularından biridir. Ölümle ilgili pratikler sayesinde birçok bilgi elde eder, Eski Çağ’a ışık tutmaya çalışırız. Ölüm, duyulduğu andan itibaren başlayan ve hiç bitmeyen tören ve ritüellerle yaşamayı... more
in Gender, Memory and Identity in the Roman World (ed. Jussi Rantala). Amsterdam University Press, January 2019, 283-300. This volume approaches three key concepts in Roman history - gender, memory and identity - and demonstrates the... more
This article explores how Etruscan soldiers serving in Roman armies presented themselves through visual media during the Middle Roman Republic (c. 300-100 B.C.E.), proposing a class-based model for how they formulated their military... more
The goal of this paper is to offer a re-interpretation of Roman funerary portraits as mediums – archaeological objects carrying certain messages. In contemporary research, the Roman province of Syria is often described as a field to the... more
Octavian's decision in 28 B.C.E. to ban Egyptian cults from within the pomerium was not a sign of hostility to foreign cults, especially since the emperor himself arranged for the restoration of those shrines outside the city's religious... more
“Most cultural theorists saw network analysis as located squarely in the positivist camp, reducing cultural richness to 1s and 0s and lacking attention to processes of interpretation and meaning-construction.”; thus Ann Mische in 2011... more
In this research seminar paper I will discuss the ways in which the writers and rhetoricians of the High-Imperial era adopted and adapted elements of ethnographic writing into their discourse of cultural belonging. The knowledge-ordering... more
In this article we show the different changes suffered by the Greek city of Corinth as a part of the process of romanization and construction of a Roman identity that become it in a Roman colony and then in the capital of the province of... more
In the paper we discuss a small Roman provincial cemetery, excavated in 1997 near the modern village Podlipoglav east of Ljubljana, Slovenia. This cemetery of a small hamlet in the backdrop of the colony of Emona came into use about a... more
En este trabajo proponemos estudiar la dinámica de memoria y olvido implicada en el diálogo entre Júpiter y Juno en Eneida XII, 791-842. Examinaremos la definición de los romanos planteada por Juno (y en especial su pedido de que Troya... more
Il saggio è dedicato ad alcune figure professionali del mondo romano legate alla lavorazione e alla vendita dell'oro e di manufatti realizzati con questo metallo prezioso. Nel testo si analizzano in particolare le testimonianze... more
We are happy to announce the call for papers for the third conference Imperialism and Identities at the Edges of the Roman World. The conference covers various topics within the theme of social interactions directly or indirectly... more
Imperialism and Identities at the Edges of the Roman World 2, Istraživacka stanica Petnica, Srbija
//This thesis hopes to demonstrate how Alaric and his Goths were Romans in virtually all that is known about them. To do this, the author has drawn from the social sciences to take the conceptual scope of the eminent sociologist Pierre... more
Eseu cu privire la obiceiuri, tradiții și cultura românească
Luento Avoimen yliopiston kurssilla 'Antiikista keskiaikaan: kulttuurisia ja yhteiskunnallisia murroksia myöhäisantiikista varhaiskeskiaikaan', AYHISK-221 6.5.-17.6.2021.
Pidetty 20.5.2021 esinauhoitettuna Zoom-luentona.
Pidetty 20.5.2021 esinauhoitettuna Zoom-luentona.
The author examines how the Romans self-perceived themselves in the context of their enmity with the Carthaginians. The subjects discussed are: similarities in body politics, exoticism of “Punicness”, shift in significance of maritime... more
This is the abstract for my MPhil thesis, 'The Presentation of Scipio Africanus: Hellenization and Roman Elite Display in the 3rd and 2nd Centuries BCE' (2021), completed at the University of Queensland under the supervision of Assoc.... more
Le récit des origines troyennes d’un peuple non grec était d’abord un mythe grec, conçu et développé par des Grecs et pour des Grecs, attesté un peu partout dans le bassin méditerranéen dès la fin de l’époque archaïque. L’identité... more
This paper analyses the concept of Romaness in the letters of Sidonius Apollinaris, arguing that for Sidonius being Roman was anchored in a set of cultural traditions. Sidonius' letters also demonstrate, how the senatorial elite of late... more