Research Seminar 10 November 2022, 17.00, at the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies in Rome and on ZOOM – LINK MOA EKBOM Urbem praeclaram statui: Dido the builder in Antiquity The alternative narrative of a chaste Dido, in which she never meets Aeneas, but remains true to her dead husband, was known in Antiquity. The […]
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Research Seminar 03 November 2022, 17.00, at the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies in Rome and on ZOOM ZOOM LINK Agnes Vendel Pointed words – shared worlds? Hyperbaton and common frames of reference in Cicero’s orations. How can language be used to impose a common frame of references between a speaker and their audience? In
Research Seminar 27 October 2022, 17.00, at the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies in Rome and on ZOOM ZOOM LINK Johan Linton Jan Wallinder and Francesco Borromini – A modest modernist architect studies the Roman baroque Jan Wallinder (1915-2006) belongs to the second generation of Swedish modern architects. He was the youngest collaborator of Erik
Research Seminar 20 October 2022, 17.00, at the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies in Rome and on ZOOM ZOOM LINK Tuomo Nuorluoto Local and translocal identities in Roman Greece. Some observations on the names used by Hellenic elites with Roman citizenship The Roman conquest of the Eastern Mediterranean world had its impact on the local
Research Seminar 13 October 2022, 15.00, at the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies in Rome and on ZOOM ZOOM LINK Camilla Anerfeldt Sumptuary legislation in Early Modern Rome – An exceptional case? In early modern Rome, social identity was regarded as much more important than the individual, and clothing has therefore often been seen as
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Suecia Antiqua et HodiernaThe Classical World in Sweden – Sweden in the Classical World Welcome to an evening with lectures, music and an historical performance. The event will be hosted at the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies in Romethe 10th of October starting at 18.00 and reservation is mandatory. LECTURES:Martin OlinSergel’s Cult of the
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Research Seminar 22 September 2022, 17.00, at the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies in Rome Christian Mühlenbock Saint Nicolaus of Edsleskog and the role of the catholic church in 12th century Sweden. In the late 12th century, a local priest, Nicolaus, was brutally murdered on his way to administer last rites to a dying man.
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Research Seminar 15 September 2022, 17.00, at the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies in Rome Gustav Zamore Contested Authority: Sacred Space, Conflict, and Material Culture in High and Late Medieval Western Europe Medieval Christian sacred spaces were, in theory, exceptional zones, free from violence and bloodshed. But they were also material expressions of orthodoxy, power,
