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Ancient History, Greek Epigraphy, Latin Epigraphy, Roman Empire, Ancient economy, Roman Greece, and 28 moreRoman imperial cult, Greek Priests, Gladiators, Epigraphy on Instrumentum Domesticum, Roman Religion, Ancient Greek Religion, Roman Prosopography, Graeco-Roman Religion, Greek and Roman Epigraphy, Acculturation and 'Romanisation', Romanization, Romanisation, Thrace, Emperor worship and Roman religion, Roman Epigraphy, Ancient Greek Epigraphy, Greek religion (Classics), Ancient Greek History, Roman Archaeology, Roman History, Athens and Attica, Ancient Athens, Classics, Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor, Classical Archaeology, Athens, GRAECO-ROMAN RELIGIONS AND CULTS, and Hellenistic Ruler Cult edit
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I am Associate Professor of Greek Epigraphy at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. After specialising in Classical ... moreI am Associate Professor of Greek Epigraphy at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. After specialising in Classical Archaeology and Greek Epigraphy at the Italian Archaeological School at Athens (MA - 2001-2003), from 2008 to 2015 I have been Researcher at the Institute of Historical Research of the National Hellenic Research Foundation in Athens. My research activity is focused on the study of the Greek world during the Roman period, with a specific interest for the religious landscape of cities (cultic, social and institutional aspects) and its economic and financial implications. I have studied in depth the Roman imperial cult in Greece, a topic on which I have published various articles and the monograph Theoi Sebastoi. Il culto degli imperatori romani in Grecia (provincia Achaia) nel secondo secolo d.C. (2011). I am also the author of Roma e le poleis. L’intervento di Roma nelle controversie territoriali tra le comunità greche di Grecia e d’Asia Minore nel secondo secolo a.C.: le testimonianze epigrafiche (2009). edit
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At the beginning of the first century BC Athens was an independent city bound to Rome through a friendship alliance. By the end of the first century AD the city had been incorporated into the Roman province of Achaea. Along with Athenian... more
At the beginning of the first century BC Athens was an independent city bound to Rome through a friendship alliance. By the end of the first century AD the city had been incorporated into the Roman province of Achaea. Along with Athenian independence perished the notion of Greek self-rule. The rest of Achaea was ruled by the governor of Macedonia already since 146 BC, but the numerous defections of Greek cities during the first century BC show that Roman rule was not yet viewed as inevitable.
In spite of the definitive loss of self-rule this was not a period of decline. Attica and the Peloponnese were special regions because of their legacy as cultural and religious centres of the Mediterranean. Supported by this legacy communities and individuals engaged actively with the increasing presence of Roman rule and its representatives. The archaeological and epigraphic records attest to the continued economic vitality of the region: buildings, statues, and lavish tombs were still being constructed. There is hence need to counterbalance the traditional discourses of weakness on Roman Greece, and to highlight how acts of remembering were employed as resources in this complex political situation.
The legacy of Greece defined Greek and Roman responses to the changing relationship. Both parties looked to the past in shaping their interactions, but how this was done varied widely. Sulla fashioned himself after the tyrant-slayers Harmodius and Aristogeiton, while Athenian ephebes evoked the sea-battles of the Persian Wars to fashion their valour. This interdisciplinary volume traces strategies of remembering in city building, funerary culture, festival and association, honorific practices, Greek literature, and political ideology. The variety of these strategies attests to the vitality of the region. In times of transition the past cannot be ignored: actors use what came before, in diverse and complex ways, in order to build the present.
Available open access at: https://www.sidestone.com/books/strategies-of-remembering-in-greece-under-rome-100-bc-100-ad
In spite of the definitive loss of self-rule this was not a period of decline. Attica and the Peloponnese were special regions because of their legacy as cultural and religious centres of the Mediterranean. Supported by this legacy communities and individuals engaged actively with the increasing presence of Roman rule and its representatives. The archaeological and epigraphic records attest to the continued economic vitality of the region: buildings, statues, and lavish tombs were still being constructed. There is hence need to counterbalance the traditional discourses of weakness on Roman Greece, and to highlight how acts of remembering were employed as resources in this complex political situation.
The legacy of Greece defined Greek and Roman responses to the changing relationship. Both parties looked to the past in shaping their interactions, but how this was done varied widely. Sulla fashioned himself after the tyrant-slayers Harmodius and Aristogeiton, while Athenian ephebes evoked the sea-battles of the Persian Wars to fashion their valour. This interdisciplinary volume traces strategies of remembering in city building, funerary culture, festival and association, honorific practices, Greek literature, and political ideology. The variety of these strategies attests to the vitality of the region. In times of transition the past cannot be ignored: actors use what came before, in diverse and complex ways, in order to build the present.
Available open access at: https://www.sidestone.com/books/strategies-of-remembering-in-greece-under-rome-100-bc-100-ad
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Students, colleagues, and friends are delighted to offer to Maria Letizia Lazzarini a Festschrift on the occasion of her recent retirement from teaching. The two-volume Festschrift includes contributions on numerous topics (new documents,... more
Students, colleagues, and friends are delighted to offer to Maria Letizia Lazzarini a Festschrift on the occasion of her recent retirement from teaching. The two-volume Festschrift includes contributions on numerous topics (new documents, institutional aspects, society and economy, cults, onomastics, etc.) by almost fifty scholars.
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Between the end of the 3rd and the early 2nd century BC the Pharians sent ambassadors to their motherland Paros, asking for help. The Parians decreed publicly to consult the Delphic oracle. The response, of which only three extremely... more
Between the end of the 3rd and the early 2nd century BC the Pharians sent ambassadors to their motherland Paros, asking for help. The Parians decreed publicly to consult the Delphic oracle. The response, of which only three extremely fragmentary verses are preserved, was inscribed together with the Pharian and the Parian decrees on a stele which was set up in the Dalmatian island of Hvar (ancient Pharos). After providing a hypothetical reconstruction of the content (and meaning) of this metrical response, the present article offers a historical contextualization for it and tries to locate it within the extant Delphic oracular production.
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General introduction to the volume, offering an overview of the different aspects (rural and urban landscape, society, economy, religion, visual culture, reception of Roman Greece) involved in the interpretation of Greece during the Roman... more
General introduction to the volume, offering an overview of the different aspects (rural and urban landscape, society, economy, religion, visual culture, reception of Roman Greece) involved in the interpretation of Greece during the Roman Perio
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In the multitude of testimonies pertaining to the cults and honors for Hadrian that can be connected to the physical presence of the “restless emperor”, the case of Greece is rather anomalous if one compares the sheer number and... more
In the multitude of testimonies pertaining to the cults and honors for Hadrian that can be connected to the physical presence of the “restless emperor”, the case of Greece is rather anomalous if one compares the sheer number and importance of cultic (and honorific) attestations for him with the relative scarcity of the evidence on imperial cult in the province of Achaea. In this chapter I argue that the abundance of evidence that “old Greece” provides for the worship of Hadrian can be linked to the philhellene emperor’s personal inclination toward this region. I will concentrate primarily on the ways Hadrian’s proverbial philhellenism is reflected in the worship that he received in Greece. I will focus on Athens, not only because this city has yielded most of the evidence on the cult of Hadrian in the province of Achaea, but also because one can argue that his worship in Athens reveals a direct expression of the emperor’s privileged link with the city. Indeed, the sheer number and types of testimonies of the cult of Hadrian in Athens may be seen as a direct reflection of the city’s pivotal role in the emperor’s Panhellenic program. Athens’ connection with its glorious past as well as its ongoing cultural primacy in Roman Greece and the Graeco-Roman Empire in general played a central role in the realization of the new imperial policy. After presenting an overview of the available evidence from cult places, festivals, and priesthoods, I shed light on the main features of this imperial cult against the background of key concepts of Hadrian’s relationship with the Greek world.
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Germanico, pur senza essere stato un principe, gode, nella documentazione epigrafica in lingua latina e greca, almeno per tutta l’età giulio-claudia, di una presenza costante e superiore perfino a quella di alcuni dei primi imperatori,... more
Germanico, pur senza essere stato un principe, gode, nella documentazione epigrafica in lingua latina e greca, almeno per tutta l’età giulio-claudia, di una presenza costante e superiore perfino a quella di alcuni dei primi imperatori, non solo per la buona memoria che egli lasciò di sé, ma anche perché tutti e tre i successori di Tiberio – Caligola,
Claudio e Nerone – discendevano direttamente da lui (in quanto rispettivamente figlio, fratello e nipote di Germanico) ed ebbero loro stessi ogni interesse a perpetuarne il ricordo. Ancora al tempo di Severo Alessandro, del resto, almeno presso gli accampamenti militari il suo dies natalis era festeggiato con una supplicatio, caso isolato in un contesto che vedeva festeggiamenti solo per Divi e Divae e per le ricorrenze legate all’imperatore vivente.
Claudio e Nerone – discendevano direttamente da lui (in quanto rispettivamente figlio, fratello e nipote di Germanico) ed ebbero loro stessi ogni interesse a perpetuarne il ricordo. Ancora al tempo di Severo Alessandro, del resto, almeno presso gli accampamenti militari il suo dies natalis era festeggiato con una supplicatio, caso isolato in un contesto che vedeva festeggiamenti solo per Divi e Divae e per le ricorrenze legate all’imperatore vivente.
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In the budget of Greek cities reserved for religion a special place was held by the costs connected with the organization of festivals. This paper deals with the financing of festivals and agones, with particular reference to the cities... more
In the budget of Greek cities reserved for religion a special place was held by the costs connected with the organization of festivals. This paper deals with the financing of festivals and agones, with particular reference to the cities of mainland Greece during the Hellenistic and Imperial periods. The funding of these celebrations was secured by a combination of public funds, also including the so-called “sacred funds” and the revenues from the “agonistic endowments” usually administered by public officials, and private munificence, i.e. liberal acts both by magistrates (in primis the agonothetes) and private individuals. Although the epigraphic texts mention more often the latter (evergetic) form of financing, the contribution of civic finances must have played a decisive role.
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This paper deals with the Thracian population of Rome. It focuses on the identification in the epigraphic evidence of individuals of Thracian origin and the analysis and presentation of the main socio-legal categories of Thraces attested... more
This paper deals with the Thracian population of Rome. It focuses on the identification in the epigraphic evidence of individuals of Thracian origin and the analysis and presentation of the main socio-legal categories of Thraces attested in Rome, who were mainly soldiers and freedmen-slaves. Most of the Thraces known to have sojourned at least for a period in Rome are soldiers enrolled in the Imperial guard (praetorians and equites singulares Augusti), whose number grew exponentially during the third c. AD, along with a similar increase attested for the legionary troops.
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In the Greek world Roman emperors were often linked with traditional gods. Verbal and iconographical assimilations on inscriptions, coins and statues, integration into pre-existing sacred structures and festivals, and joint priesthoods... more
In the Greek world Roman emperors were often linked with traditional gods. Verbal and iconographical assimilations on inscriptions, coins and statues, integration into pre-existing sacred structures and festivals, and joint priesthoods were three different means of establishing a relationship between the old gods of the Greek pantheon and the new divinized masters of the Empire. The ideological valency of this proceeding was strong, as it permitted the Greek elites both to establish a subtle hierarchy between emperors and gods and to cope with the new imperial power through traditional tools (and according to Greeks’ cultural horizon). As is generally the case with the “imperial cult” as a whole, however, the assimilation of emperors to the traditional Greek gods had also significant cultic implications, since ritual ceremonies were performed for the emperors. In this context priests of the imperial cult played an important role. The present paper deals with these aspects in the cities of mainland Greece.
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The present article deals with a dedication to Septimius Severus, Caracalla and Iulia Domna inscribed on one altar that was erected at Philippi by a “federation” of five communities designated as Πενταπολεῖται (CIPh II.1, N. 24). The... more
The present article deals with a dedication to Septimius Severus, Caracalla and Iulia Domna inscribed on one altar that was erected at Philippi by a “federation” of five communities designated as Πενταπολεῖται (CIPh II.1, N. 24). The presence at the end of the text of the Greek term θυσία (= sacrifice) singles out this inscription among the known dedications, both imperial and non-imperial. My hypothesis is that this particular formula is drawn from (or inspired by) the festive calendar of the Roman colony, which would have been the model followed by the dedicants while offering a sacrifice to the reigning emperor.
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This paper offers an overview of an ongoing research project on priesthoods in Roman Athens, whose first purpose is to realise a prosopography of the Athenian cult personnel during the Roman imperial period (c. 27 BC-267 AD). Despite a... more
This paper offers an overview of an ongoing research project on priesthoods in Roman Athens, whose first purpose is to realise a prosopography of the Athenian cult personnel during the Roman imperial period (c. 27 BC-267 AD). Despite a growing interest in the last years on the social aspects of Greek (and Roman) religion and specifically on priesthoods as is also shown by the publication of several collective volumes on the latter subject, systematic investigations on the cult personnel of single poleis are still lacking. As regards Athens, in particular, while there are studies on specific priesthoods such as the Eleusinian priesthoods or the priests of Asklepios, to date there is no comprehensive investigation on the Athenian cult personnel. Furthermore, while different aspects connected with priesthood have been studied for Classical and Hellenistic Athens, the Roman imperial period has been left largely ‘in the shadows’. Having this in mind, I have begun a research on Athenian cult personnel during the Roman imperial period. Since any such investigation must be based on a systematic collection of the epigraphic evidence on the individual holders of the different priesthoods, my first aim is to realise a prosopography of all religious functionaries, both male and female, of Athenian cults (that is to say of cults performed in Athens) from Augustus up to the 3rd c. AD (ca. AD 267). The prosopography is to be followed in due time by a synthesis on the religious, social, and cultural aspects of priesthood in Roman Athens. The prosopographic catalogue, collecting the relevant epigraphic and literary testimonies, will provide for each priest the main data (name, chronology, status, other charges, bibliography) and a thorough commentary on his family relations and on his priestly activity and public career.
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Priestly titles can offer insights on the cult object served by each priest as well as on the tenure and specific functions of a given priesthood. This paper examines the priesthood of the imperial cult in Greece (provincia Achaia). The... more
Priestly titles can offer insights on the cult object served by each priest as well as on the tenure and specific functions of a given priesthood. This paper examines the priesthood of the imperial cult in Greece (provincia Achaia). The sys-tematic analysis of the epigraphic evidence shows that in the supra-civic realm the title archiereus is almost exclusive. As for civic priests, who are the most represented in the epigraphic evidence in Greece, the title hiereus is gradually replaced during the 1st c. AD by the title archiereus, this showing a precise evolution which also reflects a shift in the cult object from single imperial figures to the Sebastoi as a whole (including the reigning emperor, his predecessors, and other members of the domus Augusta).
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The aim of this paper is to analyse the social status of religious functionaries in Greece during the Roman period. Priests’ socio-economic condition had already increased in Greek cities by the late Hellenistic period. This is reflected... more
The aim of this paper is to analyse the social status of religious functionaries in Greece during the Roman period. Priests’ socio-economic condition had already increased in Greek cities by the late Hellenistic period. This is reflected in the public image conveyed by honorary inscriptions for religious functionaries which mention their qualities and acts of euergetism. The epigraphic evidence from the cities of Roman Greece shows that both priests and the other civic functionaries belonged to the same high socio-economic milieu. With a few exceptions priestly offices do not seem to have functioned as a privileged access route to the ruling political elite, since the most prestigious priesthoods were usually reserved for individuals who already belonged to the upper strata of society. In Roman Greece, access to public priesthoods is primarily an expression of intra-elite mobility.
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The epigraph is a dedication to Zeus and Athena placed on an altar by officers and soldiers of a garrison of the Pergamum army, which was stationed in Aegina, to pay homage to Attalus I of Pergamum. The dedication can be traced back... more
The epigraph is a dedication to Zeus and Athena placed on an altar by officers and soldiers of a garrison of the Pergamum army, which was stationed in Aegina, to pay homage to Attalus I of Pergamum. The dedication can be traced back between the year 210/209 BC and Attalus I
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The balaneus Kallias. An Attic Funerary Stele at the Martin Von Wagner Museum of Würzburg - (IG II-III2 11804) The stele HA 1489 at the Martin von Wagner Museum in Würzburg is the only epigraphic evidence dating to the classical period... more
The balaneus Kallias. An Attic Funerary Stele at the Martin Von Wagner Museum of Würzburg - (IG II-III2 11804)
The stele HA 1489 at the Martin von Wagner Museum in Würzburg is the only epigraphic evidence dating to the classical period that concerns a balaneus. Balaneis were a particular category of workers assigned to effectively manage the most ancient Public Baths of the Greek world, the balaneia. This unique epigraphic evidence is especially significant when one considers the general dearth of semata erected for the commemoration of men and women engaged in banausikai technai. The technical, stylistic, epigraphic, and contextual study of this stele, dedicated to the balaneus Kallias and to Kallistrate, daughter of Myops, allows for an analysis of the social status of the ‘Athenian’ balaneis from the 5th to the 4th century BCE, as well as a unique opportunity
to examine aspects of the often misunderstood balaneutike techne.
Καλλίας ο βαλανεύς. Μια αττική επιτύμβια στήλη του Martin von Wagner Museum του Wϋrzburg (IG II-III2 11804)
Η στήλη ΗΑ 1489 του Martin von Wagner Museum του Wϋrzburg αποτελεί τη μοναδική επιγραφική μαρτυρία της κλασικής περιόδου που αναφέρεται σε έναν βαλανέα, αντιπρόσωπο μιας συγκεκριμένης κατηγορίας εργαζομένων που είχαν ως καθήκον τη διαχείριση και τη σωστή λειτουργία των παλαιότερων δημόσιων λουτρικών εγκαταστάσεων στον ελληνικό κόσμο (τα βαλανεία). Η μοναδικότητα αυτής της αναφοράς είναι περισσότερο πολύτιμη, αν ληφθεί υπ΄ όψιν η γενική σπανιότητα επιτυμβίων σημάτων που ανεγέρθηκαν για να μνημονευθούν άνδρες και γυναίκες που ασχολούνταν με βαναυσικάς τέχνας. Η τεχνική, τεχνοτροπική και επιγραφική επανεξέταση της στήλης που αποδίδεται στον βαλανέα Καλλία και στην Καλλιστράτη, θυγατέρα του Μύωπος, μαζί με την προσπάθεια εντοπισμού της προέλευσής της, αποτέλεσαν το έναυσμα για μια συστηματική έρευνα σχετικά με την κοινωνική θέση των ‘Αθηναίων’ βαλανέων ανάμεσα στον 5ο και τον 4ο αι. π.Χ., καθώς και τα πρακτικά ζητήματα των καθημερινών ασχολιών τους, έκφραση ενός συνόλου γνώσεων και τεχνικών ικανοτήτων που αποτελούν μια, συχνά παρεξηγημένη, βαλανευτική τέχνη.
The stele HA 1489 at the Martin von Wagner Museum in Würzburg is the only epigraphic evidence dating to the classical period that concerns a balaneus. Balaneis were a particular category of workers assigned to effectively manage the most ancient Public Baths of the Greek world, the balaneia. This unique epigraphic evidence is especially significant when one considers the general dearth of semata erected for the commemoration of men and women engaged in banausikai technai. The technical, stylistic, epigraphic, and contextual study of this stele, dedicated to the balaneus Kallias and to Kallistrate, daughter of Myops, allows for an analysis of the social status of the ‘Athenian’ balaneis from the 5th to the 4th century BCE, as well as a unique opportunity
to examine aspects of the often misunderstood balaneutike techne.
Καλλίας ο βαλανεύς. Μια αττική επιτύμβια στήλη του Martin von Wagner Museum του Wϋrzburg (IG II-III2 11804)
Η στήλη ΗΑ 1489 του Martin von Wagner Museum του Wϋrzburg αποτελεί τη μοναδική επιγραφική μαρτυρία της κλασικής περιόδου που αναφέρεται σε έναν βαλανέα, αντιπρόσωπο μιας συγκεκριμένης κατηγορίας εργαζομένων που είχαν ως καθήκον τη διαχείριση και τη σωστή λειτουργία των παλαιότερων δημόσιων λουτρικών εγκαταστάσεων στον ελληνικό κόσμο (τα βαλανεία). Η μοναδικότητα αυτής της αναφοράς είναι περισσότερο πολύτιμη, αν ληφθεί υπ΄ όψιν η γενική σπανιότητα επιτυμβίων σημάτων που ανεγέρθηκαν για να μνημονευθούν άνδρες και γυναίκες που ασχολούνταν με βαναυσικάς τέχνας. Η τεχνική, τεχνοτροπική και επιγραφική επανεξέταση της στήλης που αποδίδεται στον βαλανέα Καλλία και στην Καλλιστράτη, θυγατέρα του Μύωπος, μαζί με την προσπάθεια εντοπισμού της προέλευσής της, αποτέλεσαν το έναυσμα για μια συστηματική έρευνα σχετικά με την κοινωνική θέση των ‘Αθηναίων’ βαλανέων ανάμεσα στον 5ο και τον 4ο αι. π.Χ., καθώς και τα πρακτικά ζητήματα των καθημερινών ασχολιών τους, έκφραση ενός συνόλου γνώσεων και τεχνικών ικανοτήτων που αποτελούν μια, συχνά παρεξηγημένη, βαλανευτική τέχνη.
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Imperial estates represented the most important item amongst the properties possessed by the emperors. By a certain time there must have been imperial estates in most of the provinces of the Empire, yet their extension in relation to... more
Imperial estates represented the most important item amongst the properties possessed by the emperors. By a certain time there must have been imperial estates in most of the provinces of the Empire, yet their extension in relation to other properties is difficult to estimate due to the scarcity of direct evidence. In Greece (Province of Achaia) imperial estates seem to have been very limited, judging from the evidence at our disposal. Apart from a few literary references, of which one of the most known is the case of the lands of the Athenian Ti. Claudius Hipparchus (grandfather of the famous Herodes Atticus) whose estates were confiscated by the emperor Domitian following his condemnation due to tyrannical behaviour, indirect hints of the possible presence of imperial estates in the province of Achaia can be drawn from inscriptions mentioning functionaries who can be put in relation with imperial properties, such as procurators (procuratores/ἐπίτροποι) or (imperial) ‘bailiffs’ (οἰκονόμοι/vilici; πραγματευταί/actores). In most cases, however, the exact nature and location of these imperial domains remain uncertain. Generally speaking, the evidence at our disposal gives the impression of a substantial scarcity of imperial estates in the province of Achaia.
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At the beginning of the first century BC Athens was an independent city bound to Rome through a friendship alliance. By the end of the first century AD the city had been incorporated into the Roman province of Achaea. Along with Athenian... more
At the beginning of the first century BC Athens was an independent city bound to Rome through a friendship alliance. By the end of the first century AD the city had been incorporated into the Roman province of Achaea. Along with Athenian independence perished the notion of Greek self-rule. The rest of Achaea was ruled by the governor of Macedonia already since 146 BC, but the numerous defections of Greek cities during the first century BC show that Roman rule was not yet viewed as inevitable.
In spite of the definitive loss of self-rule this was not a period of decline. Attica and the Peloponnese were special regions because of their legacy as cultural and religious centres of the Mediterranean. Supported by this legacy communities and individuals engaged actively with the increasing presence of Roman rule and its representatives. The archaeological and epigraphic records attest to the continued economic vitality of the region: buildings, statues, and lavish tombs were still being constructed. There is hence need to counterbalance the traditional discourses of weakness on Roman Greece, and to highlight how acts of remembering were employed as resources in this complex political situation.
The legacy of Greece defined Greek and Roman responses to the changing relationship. Both parties looked to the past in shaping their interactions, but how this was done varied widely. Sulla fashioned himself after the tyrant-slayers Harmodius and Aristogeiton, while Athenian ephebes evoked the sea-battles of the Persian Wars to fashion their valour. This interdisciplinary volume traces strategies of remembering in city building, funerary culture, festival and association, honorific practices, Greek literature, and political ideology. The variety of these strategies attests to the vitality of the region. In times of transition the past cannot be ignored: actors use what came before, in diverse and complex ways, in order to build the present.
Available open access at: https://www.sidestone.com/books/strategies-of-remembering-in-greece-under-rome-100-bc-100-ad
In spite of the definitive loss of self-rule this was not a period of decline. Attica and the Peloponnese were special regions because of their legacy as cultural and religious centres of the Mediterranean. Supported by this legacy communities and individuals engaged actively with the increasing presence of Roman rule and its representatives. The archaeological and epigraphic records attest to the continued economic vitality of the region: buildings, statues, and lavish tombs were still being constructed. There is hence need to counterbalance the traditional discourses of weakness on Roman Greece, and to highlight how acts of remembering were employed as resources in this complex political situation.
The legacy of Greece defined Greek and Roman responses to the changing relationship. Both parties looked to the past in shaping their interactions, but how this was done varied widely. Sulla fashioned himself after the tyrant-slayers Harmodius and Aristogeiton, while Athenian ephebes evoked the sea-battles of the Persian Wars to fashion their valour. This interdisciplinary volume traces strategies of remembering in city building, funerary culture, festival and association, honorific practices, Greek literature, and political ideology. The variety of these strategies attests to the vitality of the region. In times of transition the past cannot be ignored: actors use what came before, in diverse and complex ways, in order to build the present.
Available open access at: https://www.sidestone.com/books/strategies-of-remembering-in-greece-under-rome-100-bc-100-ad
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A lecture by prof. Stathis Stiros (University of Patras, Dept. of Civil Engineering) about earthquakes and the destruction of ancient Roman towns of Greece. The lecture is hosted by the Roman Seminar and will be in Greek with English... more
A lecture by prof. Stathis Stiros (University of Patras, Dept. of Civil Engineering) about earthquakes and the destruction of ancient Roman towns of Greece.
The lecture is hosted by the Roman Seminar and will be in Greek with English powerpoint
Follow the link https://upatras-gr.zoom.us/j/92026488318?pwd=OHFVTlJXNmZnTnhybEpUWUZ5MDgwdz09
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The lecture is hosted by the Roman Seminar and will be in Greek with English powerpoint
Follow the link https://upatras-gr.zoom.us/j/92026488318?pwd=OHFVTlJXNmZnTnhybEpUWUZ5MDgwdz09
meeting ID: 920 2648 8318
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Dear Colleagues and Friends,
We are happy to announce the 2017 - 2018 program of lectures
The Organizing Committee
Roman Seminar
We are happy to announce the 2017 - 2018 program of lectures
The Organizing Committee
Roman Seminar
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Slaving States That Athens and Rome needed huge amounts of slaves to function is well known, and their numbers and lives have been the subject of renewed interest in recent years. Much less study has been devoted to their external... more
Slaving States
That Athens and Rome needed huge amounts of slaves to function is well known, and their numbers and lives have been the subject of renewed interest in recent years. Much less study has been devoted to their external supply: to the polities that furnished Greek and Roman traders with slaves for work in the mines and on plantations. The evidence is patchy to non- existent, of course. This talk will proceed by analogy, introducing the slaving society of Dahomey, and then showing how the evidence from certain Gallic tribes, and, perhaps, the Odyrissian kingdom, follows similar patterns, and the kinds of evidence that might be used to tease them out.
That Athens and Rome needed huge amounts of slaves to function is well known, and their numbers and lives have been the subject of renewed interest in recent years. Much less study has been devoted to their external supply: to the polities that furnished Greek and Roman traders with slaves for work in the mines and on plantations. The evidence is patchy to non- existent, of course. This talk will proceed by analogy, introducing the slaving society of Dahomey, and then showing how the evidence from certain Gallic tribes, and, perhaps, the Odyrissian kingdom, follows similar patterns, and the kinds of evidence that might be used to tease them out.
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History and Archaeology
Dear colleagues and friends,
Please take note of the programme of lectures 2018-2019 of the Roman Seminar.
The Organizing Committee
Please take note of the programme of lectures 2018-2019 of the Roman Seminar.
The Organizing Committee
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Η διασπορά των κοινοτήτων Ρωμαίων και Ιταλών στη ρωμαϊκή οικουμένη: Διάχυση, οργάνωση και διείσδυση στις τοπικές κοινωνίες Σε φιλολογικές πηγές (από τον 3ο αι. π.Χ.) και σε επιγραφικά κείμενα (από τον 2ο αι. π.Χ. και εξής) εμφανίζονται... more
Η διασπορά των κοινοτήτων Ρωμαίων και Ιταλών στη ρωμαϊκή
οικουμένη: Διάχυση, οργάνωση και διείσδυση στις τοπικές κοινωνίες
Σε φιλολογικές πηγές (από τον 3ο αι. π.Χ.) και σε επιγραφικά κείμενα
(από τον 2ο αι. π.Χ. και εξής) εμφανίζονται ομάδες ανθρώπων που
προσδιορίζονται ως Ῥωμαῖοι/cives Romani ή Ἰταλικοί/Italici,
προσδιορισμοί που συχνά συνοδεύονται από όρους, όπως consistentes,
qui consistunt/negotiantur/morantur, κατοικοῦντες, παρεπιδημοῦντες,
πραγματευόμενοι κ.α. Οι κοινότητες αυτές μαρτυρούνται σε όλο το
ρωμαϊκό κόσμο, από το Δούναβη ως τη βόρεια Αφρική κι από την
Ιβηρική χερσόνησο και τη Βρετανία μέχρι τη Συρία, ενώ δεν λείπουν
ενδείξεις της παρουσίας τους κι ακόμη βαθύτερα στην Ανατολή καθώς και πέρα από τα βόρεια σύνορα του ρωμαϊκού κράτους.
Ο ρυθμός εξάπλωσης αυτών των κοινοτήτων, η πιθανότητα εσωτερικής τους οργάνωσης, οι βασικές οικονομικές τους δραστηριότητες, οι τρόποι με τους οποίους προσπαθούν να ενταχθούν ή να διακριθούν στις κοινωνίες που τους φιλοξενούν, θα πρέπει να διερευνηθούν ξεχωριστά για κάθε περιοχή λαμβάνοντας υπ’ όψιν τις κατά τόπους ιδιαιτερότητες και αξιοποιώντας τα διαθέσιμα γραπτά και αρχαιολογικά τεκμήρια. Είναι ωστόσο γενική η διαπίστωση ότι υπήρξε πολύ σημαντικός ο ρόλος των κοινοτήτων αυτών στην κοινωνική και οικονομική ζωή, ακόμη και στη διαμόρφωση μιας νέας φυσιογνωμίας, των περιοχών όπου εγκαταστάθηκαν μόνιμα ή παροδικά, καθώς επρόκειτο για ένα τεράστιο ανθρώπινο δυναμικό που μετακινήθηκε γεμάτο ενθουσιασμό για αναζήτηση του κέρδους, με την σχετική ασφάλεια που παρείχε η σύνδεση με τη Ρώμη μέσα στην «παγκοσμιοποιημένη» οικονομική πραγματικότητα της ύστερης ελληνιστικής και της ρωμαϊκής εποχής.
οικουμένη: Διάχυση, οργάνωση και διείσδυση στις τοπικές κοινωνίες
Σε φιλολογικές πηγές (από τον 3ο αι. π.Χ.) και σε επιγραφικά κείμενα
(από τον 2ο αι. π.Χ. και εξής) εμφανίζονται ομάδες ανθρώπων που
προσδιορίζονται ως Ῥωμαῖοι/cives Romani ή Ἰταλικοί/Italici,
προσδιορισμοί που συχνά συνοδεύονται από όρους, όπως consistentes,
qui consistunt/negotiantur/morantur, κατοικοῦντες, παρεπιδημοῦντες,
πραγματευόμενοι κ.α. Οι κοινότητες αυτές μαρτυρούνται σε όλο το
ρωμαϊκό κόσμο, από το Δούναβη ως τη βόρεια Αφρική κι από την
Ιβηρική χερσόνησο και τη Βρετανία μέχρι τη Συρία, ενώ δεν λείπουν
ενδείξεις της παρουσίας τους κι ακόμη βαθύτερα στην Ανατολή καθώς και πέρα από τα βόρεια σύνορα του ρωμαϊκού κράτους.
Ο ρυθμός εξάπλωσης αυτών των κοινοτήτων, η πιθανότητα εσωτερικής τους οργάνωσης, οι βασικές οικονομικές τους δραστηριότητες, οι τρόποι με τους οποίους προσπαθούν να ενταχθούν ή να διακριθούν στις κοινωνίες που τους φιλοξενούν, θα πρέπει να διερευνηθούν ξεχωριστά για κάθε περιοχή λαμβάνοντας υπ’ όψιν τις κατά τόπους ιδιαιτερότητες και αξιοποιώντας τα διαθέσιμα γραπτά και αρχαιολογικά τεκμήρια. Είναι ωστόσο γενική η διαπίστωση ότι υπήρξε πολύ σημαντικός ο ρόλος των κοινοτήτων αυτών στην κοινωνική και οικονομική ζωή, ακόμη και στη διαμόρφωση μιας νέας φυσιογνωμίας, των περιοχών όπου εγκαταστάθηκαν μόνιμα ή παροδικά, καθώς επρόκειτο για ένα τεράστιο ανθρώπινο δυναμικό που μετακινήθηκε γεμάτο ενθουσιασμό για αναζήτηση του κέρδους, με την σχετική ασφάλεια που παρείχε η σύνδεση με τη Ρώμη μέσα στην «παγκοσμιοποιημένη» οικονομική πραγματικότητα της ύστερης ελληνιστικής και της ρωμαϊκής εποχής.
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“Reconsidering the Evidence for Female Athletics in late Hellenistic and Roman Greece” November 29, 2018, 7 p.m. The Netherlands Institute at Athens, Library (Makri 11, Athens) Abstract This talk will discuss the epigraphic and... more
“Reconsidering the Evidence for Female Athletics in late Hellenistic and Roman Greece”
November 29, 2018, 7 p.m.
The Netherlands Institute at Athens, Library (Makri 11, Athens)
Abstract
This talk will discuss the epigraphic and literary evidence for women’s membership in palaistrai and gymnasia, as well as their victories in the games of the late Hellenistic and early Roman periods in the Greek world. It will become evident that, in spite of the small number of inscriptions and literary references that survive on the topic, we can accept that athleticism and its venues were not an all-male sphere as previously thought, but one where young women athletes participated in and competed at local and Panhellenic festivals.
November 29, 2018, 7 p.m.
The Netherlands Institute at Athens, Library (Makri 11, Athens)
Abstract
This talk will discuss the epigraphic and literary evidence for women’s membership in palaistrai and gymnasia, as well as their victories in the games of the late Hellenistic and early Roman periods in the Greek world. It will become evident that, in spite of the small number of inscriptions and literary references that survive on the topic, we can accept that athleticism and its venues were not an all-male sphere as previously thought, but one where young women athletes participated in and competed at local and Panhellenic festivals.
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Maritime connections play an important role in the commercial development of the Mediterranean Sea during the Roman period. After Pompey’s triumph over piracy and the installation of the pax romana, seaborne commerce begins to increase... more
Maritime connections play an important role in the commercial development of the Mediterranean Sea during the Roman period. After Pompey’s triumph over piracy and the installation of the pax romana, seaborne commerce begins to increase and harbours, whether integrated in the urbanism of the town or located at some distance from it, is the factor that ensures the communication towards the sea. Excavations have shown the architectural evolution development of Ostia, the harbour of Rome, in the Imperial period, but what happens to more modest sites in other parts of the Empire? The Aegean Sea offers a very welcoming geography and many coastal and insular sites for natural harbours: how has growing commerce affected the architecture and the urbanism of the harbours of the Aegean area in the Roman period? This is the question that we will attempt to answer, basing our observations on some important harbours of the Aegean Sea.
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The Italian Archaeological School at Athens is pleased to host the book launch of: "What's New in Roman Greece?. Recent Work on the Greek Mainland and the Island in the Roman Period". Eds. V. DI NAPOLI, F. CAMIA, V. EVANGELIDIS, D.... more
The Italian Archaeological School at Athens is pleased to host the book launch of:
"What's New in Roman Greece?. Recent Work on the Greek Mainland and the Island in the Roman Period". Eds. V. DI NAPOLI, F. CAMIA, V. EVANGELIDIS, D. GRIGOROPOULOS, D. ROGERS, S. VLIZOS. Meletemata 80 (2019).
This event is organized by the Roman Seminar Research Group and the National Hellenic Research Foundations (EIE).
It will be presented by: S. KREMYDI, V. DI NAPOLI, K. WINTHER-JACOBSEN and P. KARANASTASI.
Monday, 3 June 2019, 'Doro Levi Lecture Hall', 7.00 p.m.
"What's New in Roman Greece?. Recent Work on the Greek Mainland and the Island in the Roman Period". Eds. V. DI NAPOLI, F. CAMIA, V. EVANGELIDIS, D. GRIGOROPOULOS, D. ROGERS, S. VLIZOS. Meletemata 80 (2019).
This event is organized by the Roman Seminar Research Group and the National Hellenic Research Foundations (EIE).
It will be presented by: S. KREMYDI, V. DI NAPOLI, K. WINTHER-JACOBSEN and P. KARANASTASI.
Monday, 3 June 2019, 'Doro Levi Lecture Hall', 7.00 p.m.
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Meeting, Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Antichità, Sapienza Università di Roma, 15-17 dicembre 2021
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Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/nvq-bnij-eqm
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This volume explores the conception and utilization of the Greek past in the Roman province of Achaea in the 2nd century CE, and the reception of the artistic, cultural, and intellectual outputs of this century in later periods. Achaea,... more
This volume explores the conception and utilization of the Greek past in the Roman province of Achaea in the 2nd century CE, and the reception of the artistic, cultural, and intellectual outputs of this century in later periods. Achaea, usually defined by international scholars as “old Greece”, was the only Roman province located entirely within the confines of the Modern Greek state, as the other five (Macedonia, Epirus, Thracia, Asia, and Creta-Cyrenaica) spill over into neighboring countries, or in the case of the latter, across the Mediterranean Sea. In many ways, Achaea in the 2nd century CE witnessed a second Golden Age, one based on collective historical nostalgia under Roman protection and innovation. As this century has produced the highest percentage of archaeological and literary material from the Roman period in the province under consideration, the time is ripe to position it more firmly in the academic discourse of studies of the Roman Empire.