Panel 3: Cultural Encounters and Fusions in the Roman Empire

Invited Speakers


Jacyntho Lins Brandão (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais): Géants, daímones, dieux : le mythe grec au crible des apologistes du IIème siècle

Michal Gawlikowski (University of Warsaw): Temples and sanctuaries in Palmyra

Francisco Marco (Universidad de Zaragoza): Confrontation and Cultural Integration of the Celts in the Roman Empire: the Case of Hispania

Accepted Speakers


Cecilia Ames / Guillermo De Santis (Universidad de Córdoba, Argentina)
Die Konstruktion ethnischer Identitäten im Alten Rom. Vergils Aeneis

Titika Aslanidou (Athen, Griechenland)
Alea iacta est

Avi Avidov (Beit-Berl College, Israel )
Marginal Privilege: Roman Imperial Society and the Jews

Alexandru Barnea (Universitatea din Bucureşti, România)
Le héros cavalier

Rebecca R. Benefiel (Washington and Lee University, Lexington, USA)
Pompeii and her Neighbors: Ancient graffiti and civic identity

Eleni Bozia (University of Florida, USA)
Lucian's and Gellius' Literary and Social Realities

Sabine Grebe (University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada)
Livy's Views about Migration and Inter-marriage

Ersilia Lopes (Capodistrian University of Athens, Greece)
Provincial versus Metropolitan: an eclectic Zeus at Rome

Nicole Méthy (Université Michel-de-Montaigne (Bordeaux 3), France)
Un regard africain sur l’Empire : le monde romain dans les Métamorphoses d’Apulée

Álvaro M. Moreno Leoni (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba - CONICET, Argentina)
The Construction of the Ethnic and Political Achaean Identity in Polybius' Histories

Heinz-Günther Nesselrath (Universität Göttingen, Deutschland)
Wirkliche oder nur fiktionale Verständigung zwischen einem Heiden und einem Christen? Der Briefwechsel zwischen Libanios und Basileios dem Großen

Mirena Slavova (Sofia University, Bulgaria)
The Struma Valley Revisited: Cultural Encounters in Roman Times on the Balkans (the Epigraphic Data)

Clinton Smith (Peel District Board of Education, Ontario, Canada)
The Economy, the Army and Acculturation in Gaul

Daniel S. Weiss (University of Virginia, USA)
Edge of Empire or Center of Commerce: a case study for interaction across the limes in northwestern Dacia

Holger Wienholz (BTU Cottbus, Deutschland)
Baalbek - Stadt und Heiligtum im provinziellen Kontext