New Perspectives on the Ancient World: Modern Perceptions, Ancient Representations (BAR International)

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. 1) A Morphology of Ancient History from a tropical, half-European viewpoint (Norberto Guarinello); 2) Eurocentricism and theory in Roman Archaeology: a further contribution to the Romanization debate (Richard Hingley); 3) Post-colonial theory, the Art of the Western Provinces, and the Warrior Reliefs from Osuna (William Mierse); 4) Antiquity serving the "extreme rights" in France: GRECE, Front National and Terre et Peuple (Glaydson Silva); 5) The construction of archaeological identities in Lebanon: archaeology, colonialism, nationalism and Frankenstein (Tamima Orra Mourad); 6) Dom Pedro II visits antique shop in Jerusalem (a controversy around Moabite antique pieces and the "Shapira Affair")(Reuven Faingold); 7) The Invention of Antiquity in South America through Egyptomania (Margareth Bakos); 8) Egypt and Brazil: an educational approach (Raquel Funari); 9) The symbolic meaning of the Vitruvian city (Alexandros Ph. Lagopoulos); 10) Gladiator fights on the Northwestern frontier of the Roman Empire (Renata Senna Garraffoni and Pedro Paulo A. Funari); 11) Modeling the Macro-Economics of the Roman Empire, or Globalization as World-Systems Without the Guilt (Glenn Storey); 12) Agrarian systems in Roman Spain: archaeological approaches (Victor Revilla); 13) New methods for the study of the social landscape from Laietania wine production region (NE Spain)(Oriol Olesti and César Carreras); 14) The annona militaris in the Tingitana: Observations on the organization and provisioning of the Roman troops (Lluis Pons Pujol); 15) Provincial interdependence in the Roman Empire: an explanatory model of Roman economy (José Remesal-Rodríguez); 16) (Almost) forgotten complicity: Socrates (and Plato) between the Oligarchic Coup of 404 B.C. and the Democratic Restoration of 403. (André Leonardo Chevitarese and Gabriele Cornelli); 17) Power and Solar Cult in Ancient Egypt: An Iconographic and Politic-Religious approach (Jio Gralha) 18) Concordia, Discord and political legacy: the rule of Geta and Caracalla (Ana Teresa Gonçalves); 19) The erotic collection of Pompeii: archaeology, identity and sexuality. (Marina Cavicchioli); 20) Female and male in Pompeii: Gender relations among the common people Lourdes (Conde Feitosa); 21) The Representation of Age: Towards a Life Course Approach (Mary Harlow and Ray Laurence); 22) Ethnicity and Ancient Judaism: Jewish Identities in 1st Century Alexandria and Antioch (Monica Selvatici); 23) Themistius, the Emperor Julian and a Discussion over the Concept of Royalty in the 4th century A.D. (Margarida Carvalho); 24) Religion, identity and conflict in the Later Roman Empire: Constantine and the contention for the Dominium Mundi (312-324) (Gilvan Ventura da Silva); 25) The literary existence of Polygnotus of Thasos and its problematic utilization in painted pottery studies (Pedro L. M. Sanches); 26) Characteristics and names of the extreme types of speech according to Dionysius of Halicarnassus (Marcos Martinho).

Pedro Paulo A. Funari, Renata S. Garraffoni and Bethany Letalien