The Organizing Committee: Valentina Di Napoli (University of Patras),Dimitris Grigoropoulos (DAI Athen), Vasilis Evangelidis (Athena Research Center), Stavros Vlizos (Ionian University) Address: Athens
New Directions in the Archaeology of Roman Greece: Connectivity, Interaction and Innovation,” at... more New Directions in the Archaeology of Roman Greece: Connectivity, Interaction and Innovation,” at the British School at Athens from Wednesday, May 15th to Friday, May 17th, 2024.
The main goal of this conference is to integrate the research on Greece during the Roman Empire and Greece's position within the wider Roman Mediterranean into the current Roman archaeology scholarship while actively engaging with the conceptual agenda of interconnectivity, identities, and social inequalities. The conference aims to explore how new networks of connectivity and mobility impacted Greek communities amidst the economically, socially, and politically changing climate brought by the Roman Empire. Sixteen papers, presented across three days, will bring together different perspectives on the effects of connections, exchange, and innovation in the region in terms of commodity flow, demography, foodways, religious interaction, social dynamics, and cultural transformations. With a strong focus on cutting-edge approaches, the conference seeks to establish an interdisciplinary dialogue, challenge existing paradigms, and stimulate fresh perspectives on the complex interplay between global connections and local innovations in Roman Greece during this dynamic period. Opening keynote lecture: Prof. Greg Woolf (UCLA) Only Disconnect. Resisting the Deep History of Roman Greece.
The Roman Seminar is pleased to invite you to a lecture by Dr. Stella Skaltsa (Rhodes Centennial ... more The Roman Seminar is pleased to invite you to a lecture by Dr. Stella Skaltsa (Rhodes Centennial Project, University of Copenhagen) and Dr. Maria Michalaki Kollia (Hellenic Ministry of Culture, Ephorate of Antiquities of the Dodecanese) with the title:
Tracing the Roman Phases(s) of a Public Monumental Building in Rhodes
The lecture will take place on Friday, 19 May 2023, at 19.00 EEST (UTC/GMT +3 hours).
All welcome to the round-table discussion
Aspects of the cult of Isis in Roman Greece,
by Si... more All welcome to the round-table discussion Aspects of the cult of Isis in Roman Greece, by Silvana Blazevska, Dafni Maikidou-Poutrinou and Barbette Spaeth. Discussant: Eleni Fassa. Wednesday, March 29, 2023, at 17.00 (Athens time) in a hybrid format with live presence at the Swedish Institute at Athens, Mitseon 9, and via Zoom link. Plese register in https://www.sia.gr/en/articles.php?tid=786
Dear friends of the RS,
We are very happy to announce the 2023 Roman Seminar Lectures, which als... more Dear friends of the RS, We are very happy to announce the 2023 Roman Seminar Lectures, which also marks the 10 year anniversary of RS. Our first guest will be Goce Pavlovski from the National Institution of Stobi who will speak about the really interesting Building with Arches, one of the grand public buildings of the Roman city of Stobi, a unique chance to know the public architecture of this large urban center. The lecture will be held in a hybrid format at the Danish Institute at Athens, the Director of which continuously supports our effort to promote the Roman period Archaeology and History. You are welcome to attend and take part in the discussion and for the people who want to join us virtually the zoom link is https://upatras-gr.zoom.us/j/92163343167?pwd=YkMxTTBTVzFUL1A5OWZXNERqa05JZz09
Dear friends of the RS,
We are very happy to announce the 2023 Roman Seminar Lectures, which als... more Dear friends of the RS, We are very happy to announce the 2023 Roman Seminar Lectures, which also marks the 10 year anniversary of RS.
Since E.L. Bowie’s seminal article on the Greeks and their past in the Second Sophistic, the stud... more Since E.L. Bowie’s seminal article on the Greeks and their past in the Second Sophistic, the study of Greece in the Roman Empire has been experiencing what has been described in other areas of social sciences and the humanities as a ‘mnemonic turn’. The purpose of this article is to rethink the role and scope of these approaches by revisiting some of their assumptions and by posing a series of related questions: was the Roman conquest a catalyst for the emergence of phenomena of mobilization of the past in Greek societies? If such phenomena articulated conscious local responses to the imperial situation, how uniform were these responses across the Greek mainland? Were Greeks unique in this respect compared to other provincial societies across the empire? Did every use and representation of the past always have an ideological significance that can be read from the available textual and material evidence? Can we classify and describe all these phenomena by using the ‘language of memor...
Dear colleagues and friends,
Please take note of the programme of lectures 2018-2019 of the Roman... more Dear colleagues and friends, Please take note of the programme of lectures 2018-2019 of the Roman Seminar.
Slaving States
That Athens and Rome needed huge amounts of slaves to function is well known, and... 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.
Roman Seminar: April 26, 2018
This paper presents the preliminary results of study of the many... more Roman Seminar: April 26, 2018
This paper presents the preliminary results of study of the many fragments of Roman-period portrait sculpture from the Library of Pantainos. These include the fragments from two over lifesize armored statues of an emperor, probably Trajan. Given the find contexts of these sculptural fragments, these portrait statues were originally set up in close proximity to where they were found, a situation that is somewhat unusual for the Agora. That is, much of the sculpture found in the Agora excavations comes from contexts that are unrelated to their original display context, as a great deal of sculptural material migrated into the Agora in the post-Antique period. The fragments from the Library of Pantainos therefore provide an unusual opportunity to reconstruct with a greater degree of certainty than is typical for the Agora the sculptural decoration of an Imperial-period building.
Η διάλεξη θα λάβει χώρα στη βιβλιοθήκη του Μουσείου Μπενάκη την Πέμπτη 22/3 και ώρα 19.00 BENAKI... more Η διάλεξη θα λάβει χώρα στη βιβλιοθήκη του Μουσείου Μπενάκη την Πέμπτη 22/3 και ώρα 19.00 BENAKI MUSEUM, Library, ground floor (Vas. Sofias& Koumbari1, Athens) Summary
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.
Αγαπητοί συνάδελφοι και φίλοι,
Σας ενημερώνουμε για το προσεχές Ρωμαϊκό Σεμινάριο που φιλοξενεί ... more Αγαπητοί συνάδελφοι και φίλοι,
Σας ενημερώνουμε για το προσεχές Ρωμαϊκό Σεμινάριο που φιλοξενεί διάλεξη του Στυλιανού Κατάκη (Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών) την Πέμπτη 8 Φεβρουαρίου 2018 στις 7.00 μ.μ.
Η διάλεξη θα λάβει χώρα στο Γερμανικό Αρχαιολογικό Ινστιτούτο (Φειδίου 1, αίθουσα διαλέξεων, 2ος όροφος).
Περισσότερες πληροφορίες στη συνημμένη αφίσα.
Η Οργανωτική Επιτροπή Ρωμαϊκό Σεμινάριο
Τα γλυπτά από την Απτέρα. Παρατηρήσεις στην πλαστική της Ύστερης Αρχαιότητας από τη Δυτική Κρήτη.
Αφορμή της σημερινής ομιλίας είναι η μελέτη των γλυπτών από την αρχαία Απτέρα, κοντά στα Χανιά στη δυτική Κρήτη. Ελάχιστα είναι τα πλήρως σωζόμενα αγάλματα ή αγαλμάτια, από την Απτέρα, και αυτά κατά κανόνα δεν προέρχονται από συστηματικές ανασκαφικές έρευνες. Πρόκειται κυρίως για μικρά θραύσματα ελληνιστικών και ρωμαϊκών χρόνων, από τα οποία ιδιαίτερα σημαντικά είναι δύο ένθετα μέλη από χέρια αγαλμάτων αξιωματούχων της Ύστερης Αρχαιότητας. Τα αγάλματα αυτά όπως και δύο κεφαλές στο Μουσείο Χανίων, δείχνουν ότι μετά τον καταστρεπτικό σεισμό του 365 μ.Χ. άρχισε μία νέα περίοδος ανάκαμψης.
Η παρουσία ρωμαϊκών και επαρχιακών νομισμάτων στην Αιγαιακή Θράκης μεταξύ του 1ου και 3ου αι. μ.Χ... more Η παρουσία ρωμαϊκών και επαρχιακών νομισμάτων στην Αιγαιακή Θράκης μεταξύ του 1ου και 3ου αι. μ.Χ.
Με βάση τη στατιστική ανάλυση των ρωμαϊκών και επαρχιακών εκδόσεων που βρέθηκαν στην Αιγαιακή Θράκη, στην περιοχή δηλαδή μεταξύ του Νέστου και του Έβρου ποταμού, η παρούσα ομιλία έχει ως στόχο την παρουσίαση της νομισματικής κυκλοφορίας και κατ’ επέκταση την ανίχνευση σχέσεων μεταξύ των πόλεων που ήκμασαν κατά τους 1ο και 3ο αι. μ.Χ. Πρόκειται για την Τόπειρο, τα Άβδηρα, τη Μαρώνεια, την Τραϊανούπολη και την Πλωτινόπολη, πόλεις δηλαδή που επηρεάστηκαν έμμεσα και άμεσα από τις διοικητικές αλλαγές που προώθησαν ρωμαίοι αυτοκράτορες στο πλαίσιο της μετατροπής της Θράκης σε Επαρχία.
Μελετήθηκαν συνολικά 1214 νομίσματα, τα οποία προήλθαν από τις ανασκαφικές έρευνες που διεξήχθησαν από την τοπική Εφορεία Αρχαιοτήτων-πρώην ΙΘ΄ ΕΠΚΑ. Επιπλέον, έχουν συμπεριληφθεί επιφανειακά ευρήματα από γνωστές όμως θέσεις που ανήκουν στη συλλογή του Αρχαιολογικού Μουσείου Κομοτηνής, και τα οποία αντιστοιχούν στο ποσοστό των 36% επί του συνόλου των νομισμάτων. Η παρουσίαση του υλικού θα γίνει γεωγραφικά από Δυτικά προς Ανατολικά, τουλάχιστον όσον αφορά τις μεγάλες πόλεις και στη συνέχεια η συζήτηση θα εξελιχθεί χρονολογικά, σε τρεις βασικές ενότητες.
Abstract
Since E.L. Bowie’s seminal article on the Greeks and their past in the Second Sophistic,... more Abstract Since E.L. Bowie’s seminal article on the Greeks and their past in the Second Sophistic, the study of Greece in the Roman Empire has been experiencing what has been described in other areas of social sciences and the humanities as a ‘mnemonic turn’. The purpose of this article is to rethink the role and scope of these approaches by revisiting some of their assumptions and by posing a series of related questions: was the Roman conquest a catalyst for the emergence of phenomena of mobilization of the past in Greek societies? If such phenomena articulated conscious local responses to the imperial situation, how uniform were these responses across the Greek mainland? Were Greeks unique in this respect compared to other provincial societies across the empire? Did every use and representation of the past always have an ideological significance that can be read from the available textual and material evidence? Can we classify and describe all these phenomena by using the ‘language of memory’? By examining these issues, we wish to highlight the complex nature of the evidence and the need to take into account its potential and its limitations when making inferences about remembering as a social and cultural strategy. https://www.sidestone.com/books/strategies-of-remembering-in-greece-under-rome-100-bc-100-ad
Αστικές επαύλεις της ύστερης αρχαιότητας νότια της Ακροπόλεως.
Από τον 2ο αι. μ.Χ. πολυτελείς επ... more Αστικές επαύλεις της ύστερης αρχαιότητας νότια της Ακροπόλεως.
Από τον 2ο αι. μ.Χ. πολυτελείς επαύλεις ανεγείρονται σε κομβικές θέσεις του αθηναϊκού αστικού ιστού, κοντά σε σημαντικούς χώρους, διοικητικούς, θρησκευτικούς ή πολιτιστικούς, σε πύλες και σε κεντρικές οδικές αρτηρίες. Αποτελώντας με το μέγεθός τους σημεία αναφοράς και προσανατολισμού στην Αθήνα απηχούν και ταυτόχρονα κατασκευάζουν κοινωνικές σχέσεις και ταυτότητες, λειτουργούν ως σύμβολα κύρους, αποτυπώνουν με την αρχιτεκτονική και την οικοσκευή τους την αλληλεπίδραση χωρικού/ υλικού και κοινωνικού.
Στην ανακοίνωση θα συζητηθούν στοιχεία από πρόσφατη ανασκαφή της Γ’ Εφορείας Προϊστορικών και Κλασικών Αρχαιοτήτων στο οικόπεδο της οδού Καλλισπέρη 21, τα οποία συμπληρώνουν την εικόνα για το κτήριο που έχει ταυτιστεί από τους περισσότερους μελετητές με την «Οικία του Πρόκλου».
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
Please take note of the upcoming Roman Seminar by Professor John Bi... more Dear Colleagues and Friends,
Please take note of the upcoming Roman Seminar by Professor John Bintliff (Leiden University & University of Edinburgh) to be held on Thursday 25 May 2017 at 7.00 pm.
The lecture will take place at the Italian Archaeological School at Athens (Parthenonos 14).
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
Please take note of the upcoming Roman Seminar by Professor Troels ... more Dear Colleagues and Friends,
Please take note of the upcoming Roman Seminar by Professor Troels Myrup Kristensen (Aarhus University) to be held on Thursday 27 April 2017 at 7.00 pm.
The lecture will take place at the Benaki Museum (Vass. Sofias & Koumbari 1, LIBRARY, basement).
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
Please take note of the upcoming Roman Seminar by Professor Paul Sc... more Dear Colleagues and Friends,
Please take note of the upcoming Roman Seminar by Professor Paul Scotton (California State University, Long Beach) to be held on Tuesday 28 March 2017 at 7.00 pm.
The lecture will take place at the Benaki Museum (Vass. Sofias & Koumbari 1, amphitheatre, second floor).
New Directions in the Archaeology of Roman Greece: Connectivity, Interaction and Innovation,” at... more New Directions in the Archaeology of Roman Greece: Connectivity, Interaction and Innovation,” at the British School at Athens from Wednesday, May 15th to Friday, May 17th, 2024.
The main goal of this conference is to integrate the research on Greece during the Roman Empire and Greece's position within the wider Roman Mediterranean into the current Roman archaeology scholarship while actively engaging with the conceptual agenda of interconnectivity, identities, and social inequalities. The conference aims to explore how new networks of connectivity and mobility impacted Greek communities amidst the economically, socially, and politically changing climate brought by the Roman Empire. Sixteen papers, presented across three days, will bring together different perspectives on the effects of connections, exchange, and innovation in the region in terms of commodity flow, demography, foodways, religious interaction, social dynamics, and cultural transformations. With a strong focus on cutting-edge approaches, the conference seeks to establish an interdisciplinary dialogue, challenge existing paradigms, and stimulate fresh perspectives on the complex interplay between global connections and local innovations in Roman Greece during this dynamic period. Opening keynote lecture: Prof. Greg Woolf (UCLA) Only Disconnect. Resisting the Deep History of Roman Greece.
The Roman Seminar is pleased to invite you to a lecture by Dr. Stella Skaltsa (Rhodes Centennial ... more The Roman Seminar is pleased to invite you to a lecture by Dr. Stella Skaltsa (Rhodes Centennial Project, University of Copenhagen) and Dr. Maria Michalaki Kollia (Hellenic Ministry of Culture, Ephorate of Antiquities of the Dodecanese) with the title:
Tracing the Roman Phases(s) of a Public Monumental Building in Rhodes
The lecture will take place on Friday, 19 May 2023, at 19.00 EEST (UTC/GMT +3 hours).
All welcome to the round-table discussion
Aspects of the cult of Isis in Roman Greece,
by Si... more All welcome to the round-table discussion Aspects of the cult of Isis in Roman Greece, by Silvana Blazevska, Dafni Maikidou-Poutrinou and Barbette Spaeth. Discussant: Eleni Fassa. Wednesday, March 29, 2023, at 17.00 (Athens time) in a hybrid format with live presence at the Swedish Institute at Athens, Mitseon 9, and via Zoom link. Plese register in https://www.sia.gr/en/articles.php?tid=786
Dear friends of the RS,
We are very happy to announce the 2023 Roman Seminar Lectures, which als... more Dear friends of the RS, We are very happy to announce the 2023 Roman Seminar Lectures, which also marks the 10 year anniversary of RS. Our first guest will be Goce Pavlovski from the National Institution of Stobi who will speak about the really interesting Building with Arches, one of the grand public buildings of the Roman city of Stobi, a unique chance to know the public architecture of this large urban center. The lecture will be held in a hybrid format at the Danish Institute at Athens, the Director of which continuously supports our effort to promote the Roman period Archaeology and History. You are welcome to attend and take part in the discussion and for the people who want to join us virtually the zoom link is https://upatras-gr.zoom.us/j/92163343167?pwd=YkMxTTBTVzFUL1A5OWZXNERqa05JZz09
Dear friends of the RS,
We are very happy to announce the 2023 Roman Seminar Lectures, which als... more Dear friends of the RS, We are very happy to announce the 2023 Roman Seminar Lectures, which also marks the 10 year anniversary of RS.
Since E.L. Bowie’s seminal article on the Greeks and their past in the Second Sophistic, the stud... more Since E.L. Bowie’s seminal article on the Greeks and their past in the Second Sophistic, the study of Greece in the Roman Empire has been experiencing what has been described in other areas of social sciences and the humanities as a ‘mnemonic turn’. The purpose of this article is to rethink the role and scope of these approaches by revisiting some of their assumptions and by posing a series of related questions: was the Roman conquest a catalyst for the emergence of phenomena of mobilization of the past in Greek societies? If such phenomena articulated conscious local responses to the imperial situation, how uniform were these responses across the Greek mainland? Were Greeks unique in this respect compared to other provincial societies across the empire? Did every use and representation of the past always have an ideological significance that can be read from the available textual and material evidence? Can we classify and describe all these phenomena by using the ‘language of memor...
Dear colleagues and friends,
Please take note of the programme of lectures 2018-2019 of the Roman... more Dear colleagues and friends, Please take note of the programme of lectures 2018-2019 of the Roman Seminar.
Slaving States
That Athens and Rome needed huge amounts of slaves to function is well known, and... 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.
Roman Seminar: April 26, 2018
This paper presents the preliminary results of study of the many... more Roman Seminar: April 26, 2018
This paper presents the preliminary results of study of the many fragments of Roman-period portrait sculpture from the Library of Pantainos. These include the fragments from two over lifesize armored statues of an emperor, probably Trajan. Given the find contexts of these sculptural fragments, these portrait statues were originally set up in close proximity to where they were found, a situation that is somewhat unusual for the Agora. That is, much of the sculpture found in the Agora excavations comes from contexts that are unrelated to their original display context, as a great deal of sculptural material migrated into the Agora in the post-Antique period. The fragments from the Library of Pantainos therefore provide an unusual opportunity to reconstruct with a greater degree of certainty than is typical for the Agora the sculptural decoration of an Imperial-period building.
Η διάλεξη θα λάβει χώρα στη βιβλιοθήκη του Μουσείου Μπενάκη την Πέμπτη 22/3 και ώρα 19.00 BENAKI... more Η διάλεξη θα λάβει χώρα στη βιβλιοθήκη του Μουσείου Μπενάκη την Πέμπτη 22/3 και ώρα 19.00 BENAKI MUSEUM, Library, ground floor (Vas. Sofias& Koumbari1, Athens) Summary
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.
Αγαπητοί συνάδελφοι και φίλοι,
Σας ενημερώνουμε για το προσεχές Ρωμαϊκό Σεμινάριο που φιλοξενεί ... more Αγαπητοί συνάδελφοι και φίλοι,
Σας ενημερώνουμε για το προσεχές Ρωμαϊκό Σεμινάριο που φιλοξενεί διάλεξη του Στυλιανού Κατάκη (Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών) την Πέμπτη 8 Φεβρουαρίου 2018 στις 7.00 μ.μ.
Η διάλεξη θα λάβει χώρα στο Γερμανικό Αρχαιολογικό Ινστιτούτο (Φειδίου 1, αίθουσα διαλέξεων, 2ος όροφος).
Περισσότερες πληροφορίες στη συνημμένη αφίσα.
Η Οργανωτική Επιτροπή Ρωμαϊκό Σεμινάριο
Τα γλυπτά από την Απτέρα. Παρατηρήσεις στην πλαστική της Ύστερης Αρχαιότητας από τη Δυτική Κρήτη.
Αφορμή της σημερινής ομιλίας είναι η μελέτη των γλυπτών από την αρχαία Απτέρα, κοντά στα Χανιά στη δυτική Κρήτη. Ελάχιστα είναι τα πλήρως σωζόμενα αγάλματα ή αγαλμάτια, από την Απτέρα, και αυτά κατά κανόνα δεν προέρχονται από συστηματικές ανασκαφικές έρευνες. Πρόκειται κυρίως για μικρά θραύσματα ελληνιστικών και ρωμαϊκών χρόνων, από τα οποία ιδιαίτερα σημαντικά είναι δύο ένθετα μέλη από χέρια αγαλμάτων αξιωματούχων της Ύστερης Αρχαιότητας. Τα αγάλματα αυτά όπως και δύο κεφαλές στο Μουσείο Χανίων, δείχνουν ότι μετά τον καταστρεπτικό σεισμό του 365 μ.Χ. άρχισε μία νέα περίοδος ανάκαμψης.
Η παρουσία ρωμαϊκών και επαρχιακών νομισμάτων στην Αιγαιακή Θράκης μεταξύ του 1ου και 3ου αι. μ.Χ... more Η παρουσία ρωμαϊκών και επαρχιακών νομισμάτων στην Αιγαιακή Θράκης μεταξύ του 1ου και 3ου αι. μ.Χ.
Με βάση τη στατιστική ανάλυση των ρωμαϊκών και επαρχιακών εκδόσεων που βρέθηκαν στην Αιγαιακή Θράκη, στην περιοχή δηλαδή μεταξύ του Νέστου και του Έβρου ποταμού, η παρούσα ομιλία έχει ως στόχο την παρουσίαση της νομισματικής κυκλοφορίας και κατ’ επέκταση την ανίχνευση σχέσεων μεταξύ των πόλεων που ήκμασαν κατά τους 1ο και 3ο αι. μ.Χ. Πρόκειται για την Τόπειρο, τα Άβδηρα, τη Μαρώνεια, την Τραϊανούπολη και την Πλωτινόπολη, πόλεις δηλαδή που επηρεάστηκαν έμμεσα και άμεσα από τις διοικητικές αλλαγές που προώθησαν ρωμαίοι αυτοκράτορες στο πλαίσιο της μετατροπής της Θράκης σε Επαρχία.
Μελετήθηκαν συνολικά 1214 νομίσματα, τα οποία προήλθαν από τις ανασκαφικές έρευνες που διεξήχθησαν από την τοπική Εφορεία Αρχαιοτήτων-πρώην ΙΘ΄ ΕΠΚΑ. Επιπλέον, έχουν συμπεριληφθεί επιφανειακά ευρήματα από γνωστές όμως θέσεις που ανήκουν στη συλλογή του Αρχαιολογικού Μουσείου Κομοτηνής, και τα οποία αντιστοιχούν στο ποσοστό των 36% επί του συνόλου των νομισμάτων. Η παρουσίαση του υλικού θα γίνει γεωγραφικά από Δυτικά προς Ανατολικά, τουλάχιστον όσον αφορά τις μεγάλες πόλεις και στη συνέχεια η συζήτηση θα εξελιχθεί χρονολογικά, σε τρεις βασικές ενότητες.
Abstract
Since E.L. Bowie’s seminal article on the Greeks and their past in the Second Sophistic,... more Abstract Since E.L. Bowie’s seminal article on the Greeks and their past in the Second Sophistic, the study of Greece in the Roman Empire has been experiencing what has been described in other areas of social sciences and the humanities as a ‘mnemonic turn’. The purpose of this article is to rethink the role and scope of these approaches by revisiting some of their assumptions and by posing a series of related questions: was the Roman conquest a catalyst for the emergence of phenomena of mobilization of the past in Greek societies? If such phenomena articulated conscious local responses to the imperial situation, how uniform were these responses across the Greek mainland? Were Greeks unique in this respect compared to other provincial societies across the empire? Did every use and representation of the past always have an ideological significance that can be read from the available textual and material evidence? Can we classify and describe all these phenomena by using the ‘language of memory’? By examining these issues, we wish to highlight the complex nature of the evidence and the need to take into account its potential and its limitations when making inferences about remembering as a social and cultural strategy. https://www.sidestone.com/books/strategies-of-remembering-in-greece-under-rome-100-bc-100-ad
Αστικές επαύλεις της ύστερης αρχαιότητας νότια της Ακροπόλεως.
Από τον 2ο αι. μ.Χ. πολυτελείς επ... more Αστικές επαύλεις της ύστερης αρχαιότητας νότια της Ακροπόλεως.
Από τον 2ο αι. μ.Χ. πολυτελείς επαύλεις ανεγείρονται σε κομβικές θέσεις του αθηναϊκού αστικού ιστού, κοντά σε σημαντικούς χώρους, διοικητικούς, θρησκευτικούς ή πολιτιστικούς, σε πύλες και σε κεντρικές οδικές αρτηρίες. Αποτελώντας με το μέγεθός τους σημεία αναφοράς και προσανατολισμού στην Αθήνα απηχούν και ταυτόχρονα κατασκευάζουν κοινωνικές σχέσεις και ταυτότητες, λειτουργούν ως σύμβολα κύρους, αποτυπώνουν με την αρχιτεκτονική και την οικοσκευή τους την αλληλεπίδραση χωρικού/ υλικού και κοινωνικού.
Στην ανακοίνωση θα συζητηθούν στοιχεία από πρόσφατη ανασκαφή της Γ’ Εφορείας Προϊστορικών και Κλασικών Αρχαιοτήτων στο οικόπεδο της οδού Καλλισπέρη 21, τα οποία συμπληρώνουν την εικόνα για το κτήριο που έχει ταυτιστεί από τους περισσότερους μελετητές με την «Οικία του Πρόκλου».
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
Please take note of the upcoming Roman Seminar by Professor John Bi... more Dear Colleagues and Friends,
Please take note of the upcoming Roman Seminar by Professor John Bintliff (Leiden University & University of Edinburgh) to be held on Thursday 25 May 2017 at 7.00 pm.
The lecture will take place at the Italian Archaeological School at Athens (Parthenonos 14).
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
Please take note of the upcoming Roman Seminar by Professor Troels ... more Dear Colleagues and Friends,
Please take note of the upcoming Roman Seminar by Professor Troels Myrup Kristensen (Aarhus University) to be held on Thursday 27 April 2017 at 7.00 pm.
The lecture will take place at the Benaki Museum (Vass. Sofias & Koumbari 1, LIBRARY, basement).
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
Please take note of the upcoming Roman Seminar by Professor Paul Sc... more Dear Colleagues and Friends,
Please take note of the upcoming Roman Seminar by Professor Paul Scotton (California State University, Long Beach) to be held on Tuesday 28 March 2017 at 7.00 pm.
The lecture will take place at the Benaki Museum (Vass. Sofias & Koumbari 1, amphitheatre, second floor).
Thursday, 19 May 2016, 7.00 p.m. hosted by the British School at Athens (Saloni, Upper House
(Sou... more Thursday, 19 May 2016, 7.00 p.m. hosted by the British School at Athens (Saloni, Upper House (Souedias 52, Athens)
Thursday, 19 May 2016, 7.00 p.m. hosted by the British School at Athens (Saloni, Upper House
(Sou... more Thursday, 19 May 2016, 7.00 p.m. hosted by the British School at Athens (Saloni, Upper House (Souedias 52, Athens)
Paper presented in Strategies of Remembrance in Greece under Rome conference hosted by the Nether... more Paper presented in Strategies of Remembrance in Greece under Rome conference hosted by the Netherlands Institute at Athens, from 19-21 October 2016.
Lecture by S. Koursoumis (Ephorate of Antiquities of Corinthia): “...καὶ ἤγαγον αὐτὸν ἐπὶ τὸ βῆμα... more Lecture by S. Koursoumis (Ephorate of Antiquities of Corinthia): “...καὶ ἤγαγον αὐτὸν ἐπὶ τὸ βῆμα…. Old and New Narratives on Religious Ethics and Groups in Roman Corinth". The lecture will take place at the German Archaeological Institute, Athens Department, at 7 pm
The recollection of the presence and the active participation of the Apostles in the foundation o... more The recollection of the presence and the active participation of the Apostles in the foundation of the first churches of the Greek-speaking East and of the Latin-speaking West consisted in an honorary title for those local churches. The precious memory had to be safeguarded in every possible way – through the medium of ecclesiastic writings, narratives but principally through constructing places of worship, there where sacred traces had been detected. By way of the worship ceremonies hosted therein, these places revived the memory and the unshakable bond attaching local churches to the primary conveyors of Jesus’ message. The lecture on the Apostle’s presence in the Greek mainland, by focusing on the Roman city of Corinth, will attempt to explore the relation of the city to one of the Protocorypheus of the Apostles. We will examine the historical data associated with the early Christian community, the resilient Pagan tradition of Corinth in Late Antiquity, s well as the existence of a flourishing Jewish community which Paul initially addressed.
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The main goal of this conference is to integrate the research on Greece during the Roman Empire and Greece's position within the wider Roman Mediterranean into the current Roman archaeology scholarship while actively engaging with the conceptual agenda of interconnectivity, identities, and social inequalities. The conference aims to explore how new networks of connectivity and mobility impacted Greek communities amidst the economically, socially, and politically changing climate brought by the Roman Empire. Sixteen papers, presented across three days, will bring together different perspectives on the effects of connections, exchange, and innovation in the region in terms of commodity flow, demography, foodways, religious interaction, social dynamics, and cultural transformations. With a strong focus on cutting-edge approaches, the conference seeks to establish an interdisciplinary dialogue, challenge existing paradigms, and stimulate fresh perspectives on the complex interplay between global connections and local innovations in Roman Greece during this dynamic period. Opening keynote lecture: Prof. Greg Woolf (UCLA) Only Disconnect. Resisting the Deep History of Roman Greece.
Tracing the Roman Phases(s) of a Public Monumental Building in Rhodes
The lecture will take place on Friday, 19 May 2023, at 19.00 EEST (UTC/GMT +3 hours).
Please note that this is an online event only.
To attend please follow the link: https://ionio-gr.zoom.us/j/98946957902 (Meeting ID: 989 4695 7902)
With best wishes,
The Roman Seminar Organizing Committee
poster credits: © Ephorate of Antiquities of the Dodecanese (photo); © N. Sepentzoglou (artwork)
Aspects of the cult of Isis in Roman Greece,
by Silvana Blazevska, Dafni Maikidou-Poutrinou and Barbette Spaeth.
Discussant: Eleni Fassa.
Wednesday, March 29, 2023, at 17.00 (Athens time) in a hybrid format with live presence at the Swedish Institute at Athens, Mitseon 9, and via Zoom link. Plese register in https://www.sia.gr/en/articles.php?tid=786
We are very happy to announce the 2023 Roman Seminar Lectures, which also marks the 10 year anniversary of RS. Our first guest will be Goce Pavlovski from the National Institution of Stobi who will speak about the really interesting Building with Arches, one of the grand public buildings of the Roman city of Stobi, a unique chance to know the public architecture of this large urban center. The lecture will be held in a hybrid format at the Danish Institute at Athens, the Director of which continuously supports our effort to promote the Roman period Archaeology and History.
You are welcome to attend and take part in the discussion and for the people who want to join us virtually the zoom link is
https://upatras-gr.zoom.us/j/92163343167?pwd=YkMxTTBTVzFUL1A5OWZXNERqa05JZz09
We are very happy to announce the 2023 Roman Seminar Lectures, which also marks the 10 year anniversary of RS.
Please take note of the upcoming Roman Seminar by Mali Skotheim (University of Wisconsin) to be held on Thursday 8 November 2018 at 7.00 pm.
The lecture is co-sponsored with and kindly hosted by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (Cotsen Hall, 9 Anapiron Polemou, Athens).
For further information see poster attached.
The Organizing Committee
Roman Seminar
Please take note of the programme of lectures 2018-2019 of the Roman Seminar.
The Organizing Committee
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.
This paper presents the preliminary results of study of the many fragments of Roman-period portrait sculpture from the Library of Pantainos. These include the fragments from two over lifesize armored statues of an emperor, probably Trajan. Given the find contexts of these sculptural fragments, these portrait statues were originally set up in close proximity to where they were found, a situation that is somewhat unusual for the Agora. That is, much of the sculpture found in the Agora excavations comes from contexts that are unrelated to their original display context, as a great deal of sculptural material migrated into the Agora in the post-Antique period. The fragments from the Library of Pantainos therefore provide an unusual opportunity to reconstruct with a greater degree of certainty than is typical for the Agora the sculptural decoration of an Imperial-period building.
Summary
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.
Σας ενημερώνουμε για το προσεχές Ρωμαϊκό Σεμινάριο που φιλοξενεί διάλεξη του Στυλιανού Κατάκη (Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών) την Πέμπτη 8 Φεβρουαρίου 2018 στις 7.00 μ.μ.
Η διάλεξη θα λάβει χώρα στο Γερμανικό Αρχαιολογικό Ινστιτούτο (Φειδίου 1, αίθουσα διαλέξεων, 2ος όροφος).
Περισσότερες πληροφορίες στη συνημμένη αφίσα.
Η Οργανωτική Επιτροπή
Ρωμαϊκό Σεμινάριο
Τα γλυπτά από την Απτέρα. Παρατηρήσεις στην πλαστική της Ύστερης Αρχαιότητας από τη Δυτική Κρήτη.
Αφορμή της σημερινής ομιλίας είναι η μελέτη των γλυπτών από την αρχαία Απτέρα, κοντά στα Χανιά στη δυτική Κρήτη. Ελάχιστα είναι τα πλήρως σωζόμενα αγάλματα ή αγαλμάτια, από την Απτέρα, και αυτά κατά κανόνα δεν προέρχονται από συστηματικές ανασκαφικές έρευνες. Πρόκειται κυρίως για μικρά θραύσματα ελληνιστικών και ρωμαϊκών χρόνων, από τα οποία ιδιαίτερα σημαντικά είναι δύο ένθετα μέλη από χέρια αγαλμάτων αξιωματούχων της Ύστερης Αρχαιότητας. Τα αγάλματα αυτά όπως και δύο κεφαλές στο Μουσείο Χανίων, δείχνουν ότι μετά τον καταστρεπτικό σεισμό του 365 μ.Χ. άρχισε μία νέα περίοδος ανάκαμψης.
Με βάση τη στατιστική ανάλυση των ρωμαϊκών και επαρχιακών εκδόσεων που βρέθηκαν στην Αιγαιακή Θράκη, στην περιοχή δηλαδή μεταξύ του Νέστου και του Έβρου ποταμού, η παρούσα ομιλία έχει ως στόχο την παρουσίαση της νομισματικής κυκλοφορίας και κατ’ επέκταση την ανίχνευση σχέσεων μεταξύ των πόλεων που ήκμασαν κατά τους 1ο και 3ο αι. μ.Χ. Πρόκειται για την Τόπειρο, τα Άβδηρα, τη Μαρώνεια, την Τραϊανούπολη και την Πλωτινόπολη, πόλεις δηλαδή που επηρεάστηκαν έμμεσα και άμεσα από τις διοικητικές αλλαγές που προώθησαν ρωμαίοι αυτοκράτορες στο πλαίσιο της μετατροπής της Θράκης σε Επαρχία.
Μελετήθηκαν συνολικά 1214 νομίσματα, τα οποία προήλθαν από τις ανασκαφικές έρευνες που διεξήχθησαν από την τοπική Εφορεία Αρχαιοτήτων-πρώην ΙΘ΄ ΕΠΚΑ. Επιπλέον, έχουν συμπεριληφθεί επιφανειακά ευρήματα από γνωστές όμως θέσεις που ανήκουν στη συλλογή του Αρχαιολογικού Μουσείου Κομοτηνής, και τα οποία αντιστοιχούν στο ποσοστό των 36% επί του συνόλου των νομισμάτων. Η παρουσίαση του υλικού θα γίνει γεωγραφικά από Δυτικά προς Ανατολικά, τουλάχιστον όσον αφορά τις μεγάλες πόλεις και στη συνέχεια η συζήτηση θα εξελιχθεί χρονολογικά, σε τρεις βασικές ενότητες.
Since E.L. Bowie’s seminal article on the Greeks and their past in the Second Sophistic, the study of Greece in the Roman Empire has been experiencing what has been described in other areas of social sciences and the humanities as a ‘mnemonic turn’. The purpose
of this article is to rethink the role and scope of these approaches by revisiting some of their assumptions and by posing a series of related questions: was the Roman conquest a catalyst for the emergence of phenomena of mobilization of the past in Greek societies?
If such phenomena articulated conscious local responses to the imperial situation, how uniform were these responses across the Greek mainland? Were Greeks unique in this respect compared to other provincial societies across the empire? Did every use and representation
of the past always have an ideological significance that can be read from the available textual and material evidence? Can we classify and describe all these phenomena by using the ‘language of memory’? By examining these issues, we wish to highlight the
complex nature of the evidence and the need to take into account its potential and its limitations when making inferences about remembering as a social and cultural strategy.
https://www.sidestone.com/books/strategies-of-remembering-in-greece-under-rome-100-bc-100-ad
Από τον 2ο αι. μ.Χ. πολυτελείς επαύλεις ανεγείρονται σε κομβικές θέσεις του αθηναϊκού αστικού ιστού, κοντά σε σημαντικούς χώρους, διοικητικούς, θρησκευτικούς ή πολιτιστικούς, σε πύλες και σε κεντρικές οδικές αρτηρίες. Αποτελώντας με το μέγεθός τους σημεία αναφοράς και προσανατολισμού στην Αθήνα απηχούν και ταυτόχρονα κατασκευάζουν κοινωνικές σχέσεις και ταυτότητες, λειτουργούν ως σύμβολα κύρους, αποτυπώνουν με την αρχιτεκτονική και την οικοσκευή τους την αλληλεπίδραση χωρικού/ υλικού και κοινωνικού.
Στην ανακοίνωση θα συζητηθούν στοιχεία από πρόσφατη ανασκαφή της Γ’ Εφορείας Προϊστορικών και Κλασικών Αρχαιοτήτων στο οικόπεδο της οδού Καλλισπέρη 21, τα οποία συμπληρώνουν την εικόνα για το κτήριο που έχει ταυτιστεί από τους περισσότερους μελετητές με την «Οικία του Πρόκλου».
Please take note of the upcoming Roman Seminar by Professor John Bintliff (Leiden University & University of Edinburgh) to be held on Thursday 25 May 2017 at 7.00 pm.
The lecture will take place at the Italian Archaeological School at Athens (Parthenonos 14).
For further information see poster attached.
The Organizing Committee
Roman Seminar
Please take note of the upcoming Roman Seminar by Professor Troels Myrup Kristensen (Aarhus University) to be held on Thursday 27 April 2017 at 7.00 pm.
The lecture will take place at the Benaki Museum (Vass. Sofias & Koumbari 1, LIBRARY, basement).
For further information see poster attached.
The Organizing Committee
Roman Seminar
Please take note of the upcoming Roman Seminar by Professor Paul Scotton
(California State University, Long Beach) to be held on Tuesday 28 March 2017
at 7.00 pm.
The lecture will take place at the Benaki Museum (Vass. Sofias & Koumbari 1, amphitheatre, second floor).
For further information see poster attached.
The Organizing Committee
Roman Seminar
The main goal of this conference is to integrate the research on Greece during the Roman Empire and Greece's position within the wider Roman Mediterranean into the current Roman archaeology scholarship while actively engaging with the conceptual agenda of interconnectivity, identities, and social inequalities. The conference aims to explore how new networks of connectivity and mobility impacted Greek communities amidst the economically, socially, and politically changing climate brought by the Roman Empire. Sixteen papers, presented across three days, will bring together different perspectives on the effects of connections, exchange, and innovation in the region in terms of commodity flow, demography, foodways, religious interaction, social dynamics, and cultural transformations. With a strong focus on cutting-edge approaches, the conference seeks to establish an interdisciplinary dialogue, challenge existing paradigms, and stimulate fresh perspectives on the complex interplay between global connections and local innovations in Roman Greece during this dynamic period. Opening keynote lecture: Prof. Greg Woolf (UCLA) Only Disconnect. Resisting the Deep History of Roman Greece.
Tracing the Roman Phases(s) of a Public Monumental Building in Rhodes
The lecture will take place on Friday, 19 May 2023, at 19.00 EEST (UTC/GMT +3 hours).
Please note that this is an online event only.
To attend please follow the link: https://ionio-gr.zoom.us/j/98946957902 (Meeting ID: 989 4695 7902)
With best wishes,
The Roman Seminar Organizing Committee
poster credits: © Ephorate of Antiquities of the Dodecanese (photo); © N. Sepentzoglou (artwork)
Aspects of the cult of Isis in Roman Greece,
by Silvana Blazevska, Dafni Maikidou-Poutrinou and Barbette Spaeth.
Discussant: Eleni Fassa.
Wednesday, March 29, 2023, at 17.00 (Athens time) in a hybrid format with live presence at the Swedish Institute at Athens, Mitseon 9, and via Zoom link. Plese register in https://www.sia.gr/en/articles.php?tid=786
We are very happy to announce the 2023 Roman Seminar Lectures, which also marks the 10 year anniversary of RS. Our first guest will be Goce Pavlovski from the National Institution of Stobi who will speak about the really interesting Building with Arches, one of the grand public buildings of the Roman city of Stobi, a unique chance to know the public architecture of this large urban center. The lecture will be held in a hybrid format at the Danish Institute at Athens, the Director of which continuously supports our effort to promote the Roman period Archaeology and History.
You are welcome to attend and take part in the discussion and for the people who want to join us virtually the zoom link is
https://upatras-gr.zoom.us/j/92163343167?pwd=YkMxTTBTVzFUL1A5OWZXNERqa05JZz09
We are very happy to announce the 2023 Roman Seminar Lectures, which also marks the 10 year anniversary of RS.
Please take note of the upcoming Roman Seminar by Mali Skotheim (University of Wisconsin) to be held on Thursday 8 November 2018 at 7.00 pm.
The lecture is co-sponsored with and kindly hosted by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (Cotsen Hall, 9 Anapiron Polemou, Athens).
For further information see poster attached.
The Organizing Committee
Roman Seminar
Please take note of the programme of lectures 2018-2019 of the Roman Seminar.
The Organizing Committee
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.
This paper presents the preliminary results of study of the many fragments of Roman-period portrait sculpture from the Library of Pantainos. These include the fragments from two over lifesize armored statues of an emperor, probably Trajan. Given the find contexts of these sculptural fragments, these portrait statues were originally set up in close proximity to where they were found, a situation that is somewhat unusual for the Agora. That is, much of the sculpture found in the Agora excavations comes from contexts that are unrelated to their original display context, as a great deal of sculptural material migrated into the Agora in the post-Antique period. The fragments from the Library of Pantainos therefore provide an unusual opportunity to reconstruct with a greater degree of certainty than is typical for the Agora the sculptural decoration of an Imperial-period building.
Summary
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.
Σας ενημερώνουμε για το προσεχές Ρωμαϊκό Σεμινάριο που φιλοξενεί διάλεξη του Στυλιανού Κατάκη (Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών) την Πέμπτη 8 Φεβρουαρίου 2018 στις 7.00 μ.μ.
Η διάλεξη θα λάβει χώρα στο Γερμανικό Αρχαιολογικό Ινστιτούτο (Φειδίου 1, αίθουσα διαλέξεων, 2ος όροφος).
Περισσότερες πληροφορίες στη συνημμένη αφίσα.
Η Οργανωτική Επιτροπή
Ρωμαϊκό Σεμινάριο
Τα γλυπτά από την Απτέρα. Παρατηρήσεις στην πλαστική της Ύστερης Αρχαιότητας από τη Δυτική Κρήτη.
Αφορμή της σημερινής ομιλίας είναι η μελέτη των γλυπτών από την αρχαία Απτέρα, κοντά στα Χανιά στη δυτική Κρήτη. Ελάχιστα είναι τα πλήρως σωζόμενα αγάλματα ή αγαλμάτια, από την Απτέρα, και αυτά κατά κανόνα δεν προέρχονται από συστηματικές ανασκαφικές έρευνες. Πρόκειται κυρίως για μικρά θραύσματα ελληνιστικών και ρωμαϊκών χρόνων, από τα οποία ιδιαίτερα σημαντικά είναι δύο ένθετα μέλη από χέρια αγαλμάτων αξιωματούχων της Ύστερης Αρχαιότητας. Τα αγάλματα αυτά όπως και δύο κεφαλές στο Μουσείο Χανίων, δείχνουν ότι μετά τον καταστρεπτικό σεισμό του 365 μ.Χ. άρχισε μία νέα περίοδος ανάκαμψης.
Με βάση τη στατιστική ανάλυση των ρωμαϊκών και επαρχιακών εκδόσεων που βρέθηκαν στην Αιγαιακή Θράκη, στην περιοχή δηλαδή μεταξύ του Νέστου και του Έβρου ποταμού, η παρούσα ομιλία έχει ως στόχο την παρουσίαση της νομισματικής κυκλοφορίας και κατ’ επέκταση την ανίχνευση σχέσεων μεταξύ των πόλεων που ήκμασαν κατά τους 1ο και 3ο αι. μ.Χ. Πρόκειται για την Τόπειρο, τα Άβδηρα, τη Μαρώνεια, την Τραϊανούπολη και την Πλωτινόπολη, πόλεις δηλαδή που επηρεάστηκαν έμμεσα και άμεσα από τις διοικητικές αλλαγές που προώθησαν ρωμαίοι αυτοκράτορες στο πλαίσιο της μετατροπής της Θράκης σε Επαρχία.
Μελετήθηκαν συνολικά 1214 νομίσματα, τα οποία προήλθαν από τις ανασκαφικές έρευνες που διεξήχθησαν από την τοπική Εφορεία Αρχαιοτήτων-πρώην ΙΘ΄ ΕΠΚΑ. Επιπλέον, έχουν συμπεριληφθεί επιφανειακά ευρήματα από γνωστές όμως θέσεις που ανήκουν στη συλλογή του Αρχαιολογικού Μουσείου Κομοτηνής, και τα οποία αντιστοιχούν στο ποσοστό των 36% επί του συνόλου των νομισμάτων. Η παρουσίαση του υλικού θα γίνει γεωγραφικά από Δυτικά προς Ανατολικά, τουλάχιστον όσον αφορά τις μεγάλες πόλεις και στη συνέχεια η συζήτηση θα εξελιχθεί χρονολογικά, σε τρεις βασικές ενότητες.
Since E.L. Bowie’s seminal article on the Greeks and their past in the Second Sophistic, the study of Greece in the Roman Empire has been experiencing what has been described in other areas of social sciences and the humanities as a ‘mnemonic turn’. The purpose
of this article is to rethink the role and scope of these approaches by revisiting some of their assumptions and by posing a series of related questions: was the Roman conquest a catalyst for the emergence of phenomena of mobilization of the past in Greek societies?
If such phenomena articulated conscious local responses to the imperial situation, how uniform were these responses across the Greek mainland? Were Greeks unique in this respect compared to other provincial societies across the empire? Did every use and representation
of the past always have an ideological significance that can be read from the available textual and material evidence? Can we classify and describe all these phenomena by using the ‘language of memory’? By examining these issues, we wish to highlight the
complex nature of the evidence and the need to take into account its potential and its limitations when making inferences about remembering as a social and cultural strategy.
https://www.sidestone.com/books/strategies-of-remembering-in-greece-under-rome-100-bc-100-ad
Από τον 2ο αι. μ.Χ. πολυτελείς επαύλεις ανεγείρονται σε κομβικές θέσεις του αθηναϊκού αστικού ιστού, κοντά σε σημαντικούς χώρους, διοικητικούς, θρησκευτικούς ή πολιτιστικούς, σε πύλες και σε κεντρικές οδικές αρτηρίες. Αποτελώντας με το μέγεθός τους σημεία αναφοράς και προσανατολισμού στην Αθήνα απηχούν και ταυτόχρονα κατασκευάζουν κοινωνικές σχέσεις και ταυτότητες, λειτουργούν ως σύμβολα κύρους, αποτυπώνουν με την αρχιτεκτονική και την οικοσκευή τους την αλληλεπίδραση χωρικού/ υλικού και κοινωνικού.
Στην ανακοίνωση θα συζητηθούν στοιχεία από πρόσφατη ανασκαφή της Γ’ Εφορείας Προϊστορικών και Κλασικών Αρχαιοτήτων στο οικόπεδο της οδού Καλλισπέρη 21, τα οποία συμπληρώνουν την εικόνα για το κτήριο που έχει ταυτιστεί από τους περισσότερους μελετητές με την «Οικία του Πρόκλου».
Please take note of the upcoming Roman Seminar by Professor John Bintliff (Leiden University & University of Edinburgh) to be held on Thursday 25 May 2017 at 7.00 pm.
The lecture will take place at the Italian Archaeological School at Athens (Parthenonos 14).
For further information see poster attached.
The Organizing Committee
Roman Seminar
Please take note of the upcoming Roman Seminar by Professor Troels Myrup Kristensen (Aarhus University) to be held on Thursday 27 April 2017 at 7.00 pm.
The lecture will take place at the Benaki Museum (Vass. Sofias & Koumbari 1, LIBRARY, basement).
For further information see poster attached.
The Organizing Committee
Roman Seminar
Please take note of the upcoming Roman Seminar by Professor Paul Scotton
(California State University, Long Beach) to be held on Tuesday 28 March 2017
at 7.00 pm.
The lecture will take place at the Benaki Museum (Vass. Sofias & Koumbari 1, amphitheatre, second floor).
For further information see poster attached.
The Organizing Committee
Roman Seminar
(Souedias 52, Athens)
(Souedias 52, Athens)
and Groups in Roman Corinth". The lecture will take place at the German Archaeological Institute, Athens Department, at 7 pm
The lecture on the Apostle’s presence in the Greek mainland, by focusing on the Roman city of Corinth, will attempt to explore the relation of the city to one of the Protocorypheus of the Apostles. We will examine the historical data associated with the early Christian community, the resilient Pagan tradition of Corinth in Late Antiquity, s well as the existence of a flourishing Jewish community which Paul initially addressed.