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This lecture turns to the rapidly expanding city centers of the first three centuries of the Roman period. These grew fast and were embellished with the monumental buildings that we know from the core of the Roman Empire: temples, theatres, bath buildings, hippodromes, colonnaded streets. These monuments are well known, but not always in context...

Contextualizing Roman Ruins: Urban Cultures of Antiquity and the Long Late Antiquity in the Near East The impressive remaining ruins of the cities of the ancient Near East—cities such as Aelia Capitolina (Jerusalem), Apamea, Baalbek (Heliopolis), Bostra, Caesarea Marittima, Jerash, and Palmyra—almost all date to the Roman period. This is no acci...

There is ample evidence that intensive studies of nature’s epiphanies were observed in Etruria and priesthoods established for that purpose from early on with the ambition of adverting disasters or explain omens and heavenly signs. Therefore, it is not surprising to find biological pictorial elements displayed on pottery, painted on tomb walls o...

Contextualizing Roman Ruins: Urban Cultures of Antiquity and the Long Late Antiquity in the Near East The impressive remaining ruins of the cities of the ancient Near East—cities such as Aelia Capitolina (Jerusalem), Apamea, Baalbek (Heliopolis), Bostra, Caesarea Marittima, Jerash, and Palmyra—almost all date to the Roman period. This is no acci...

La Giornata Ebla intende celebrare i 60 anni dell'inizio degli scavi a Tell Mardikh/Ebla, nella Siria del  nord presso Aleppo, iniziati da Paolo Matthiae nel 1964 con la costituzione della Missione Archeologica Italiana in Siria dell'Università di Roma La Sapienza e proseguiti per 47 ininterrotte campagne di scavi fino al 2010 (subito prima dell...

This lecture will examine how Greek intellectuals of the early empire used different literary techniques to criticize Rome and the first emperors. We will interpret the oppositional voices of authors like Timagenes of Alexandria, Diodorus of Sardes, and Pseudo-Longinus, the author of On the Sublime. While explicit criticism of Rome could be dang...

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A distanza di un secolo, le “metodiche esplorazioni” intraprese da Paolo Orsi intorno all’Athenaion di Ortigia, l’acropoli di Siracusa (1910-1917), sono state oggetto di una riesame critico e sistematico che ha condotto alla riedizione completa degli scavi e dei materiali archeologici (“Archeologia del Culto a Siracusa. Depositi votivi e pratich...

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