Eventi

Second appointment of the lecture series "North African urbanitas revisited: new methods and innovative theoretical approaches (3rd c. BC – 9th c. AD.)" in collaboration with the RomanIslam Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Hamburg. The Tunisian-German archaeological research carried out in Meninx from 2015 to 2018 has considerabl...

L’evento si fregia della Medaglia di rappresentanza conferita dal Presidente della Repubblica Sergio Mattarella. La Colonna Traiana è stata oggetto nel 1988-1989 di una campagna fotografica ad opera del Gabinetto Fotografico Nazionale dell’Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione (ICCD) che ha ripreso l’intero fregio istoriato. La c...

In the ancient world, funerary inscriptions were much more relational, communicative, and performative than nowadays. As people entered or left the city, they encountered series of inscribed monuments along the road that almost literally spoke to them and made claims about the deceased and their commemorators. This applied in particular to Greek...

The phenomenon of centuriation played a crucial role in Rome’s imperialistic expansion. These large-scale land division systems drained and parceled out the lands conquered by Rome, and transformed thousands of square kilometers throughout the Mediterranean into rationally ordered, agricultural landscapes. As such, they are considered one of the...

The return of the Golden Age is one of the most pervasive and perennial motifs in western culture. It has been used to articulate an enormous range of different convictions, and to support a bewildering variety of political, religious and artistic causes. The classic formulation of the theme in Virgil’s fourth Eclogue, and the reappearance [...]

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Dott. Francesco Muscolino, s.c.: Una stele funeraria forse cicladica a Palermo, le stele funerarie cicladiche in collezioni italiane e il tema del defunto presso una nave. Dott. Daniele F. Maras, s.e., Dott. Leonardo Bochicchio, Dott.ssa Rossella Zaccagnini: Quattro nuove lastre etrusche di terracotta dipinta da Cerveteri in un recupero della Gu...

The Roman poet Horace famously wrote Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, ‘it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s fatherland’, an expression that Wilfred Owen, poet and soldier during the First World War, called ‘the old lie’. However, my research suggests that Horace’s verse did not, contrary to the common opinion, represent a [...]

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Presentazione del volume “Arte romana” di Massimiliano Papini, Professore di Archeologia Classica (Sapienza Università di Roma), edito da Mondadori Università. Il manuale, concepito da Massimiliano Papini e scritto con la collaborazione di diversi esperti di archeologia romana, intende offrirne una sintesi, con attenzione a committenti, artefici...