New Perspectives on the Ancient World: Modern perceptions, ancient representations

✍ Scribed by Pedro Paulo A. Funari, Renata S. Garraffoni, Bethany Letalien

• Publisher: BAR Publishing
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 257
• Series: BAR British Archaeological Reports International Series 1782
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A volume of 26 contributions related to: The ancient world and modern perceptions: the invention of antiquity in modern times; Ancient economy, politic and society: evidences and interpretive models; Ancient representations: subjectivities and identities in interpreting gender, ethnicity, religion, literature and arts. The result is an innovative collection of chapters, from different standpoints, revealing how classics in general, and classical archaeology in particular, has reacted to the challenges of the recent past in forging a socially relevant study of the ancient world.

✦ Table of Contents

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Introduction
Section I The ancient world and modern perceptions:the invention of antiquity in modern times
A Morphology of Ancient History from a tropical, half-European viewpoint
Eurocentricism and theory in Roman Archaeology: a further contribution to the Romanization debate
Post-colonial theory, the Art of the Western Provinces, and the Warrior Reliefs from Osuna
Antiquity at the service of France’s ‘extreme rights’: GRECE, Front National and Terre et Peuple
The construction of archaeological identities in Lebanon : archaeology, colonialism, nationalism and Frankenstein
Dom Pedro II Visits Antique Shop in Jerusalem: A controversy around Moabite antique pieces and the ‘Shapira Affair’
The Invention of Antiquity in South America through images borrowed from Ancient Egypt -Egyptomania
Egypt and Brazil: an educational approach
Section II Ancient economy, politics and society:evidence and interpretive models
The symbolic meaning of the Vitruvian city
Gladiator fights on the Northwestern frontier of the Roman Empire
Modeling the Macro-Economics of the Roman Empire, or Globalization as World-Systems Without the Guilt
Agrarian systems in Roman Spain: archaeological approaches
New methods for the study of the social landscape from the Laietania wine production region of Northeastern Spain
The annona militaris in the Tingitana: Observations on the organization and provisioning of Roman troops
Provincial interdependence in the Roman Empire: an explanatory model of Roman economy
(Almost) forgotten complicity: Socrates (and Plato) between the Oligarchic Coup of 404 BC and the Democratic Restoration of 403
Power and Solar Cult in Ancient Egypt An Iconographic and Political-Religious approach
Concordia, Discord And Political Legacy: The Rule of Geta and Caracalla
Section III Ancient representations: subjectivities and identities in interpreting gender, ethnicity, religion, literature and art
The Erotic Collection of Pompeii: Archaeology, Identity and Sexuality
Feminine and Masculine in Pompeii: Gender Relations among the Common People
The Representation of Age: Towards a Life Course Approach
Ethnicity and Ancient Judaism: Jewish Identities in 1st Century Alexandria and Antioch
Themistius, the Emperor Julian and a Discussion of the Concept of Royalty in the Fourth Century AD
Religion, identity and conflict in the Later Roman Empire: Constantine and the struggle for the Dominium Mundi (312-324 AD)
The literary existence of Polygnotus of Thasos and its problematic utilization in painted pottery studies
Characteristics and Names of the Extreme Types of Speech according toDionysius of Halicarnassus