New perspectives on the ancient world
Subtitle: modern perceptions, ancient representations
By: edited by Pedro Paulo A. Funari, Renata S. Garraffoni, Bethany Letalien.
Contributors: Funari, Pedro Paulo A.; Garraffoni, Renata Senna.; Letalien, Bethany Lynn.
Series: BAR international series -- 1782
Publisher: Archaeopress; Available from Hadrian Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781407302706
Subjects: History, Ancient; Civilization, Ancient; Archaeology; Antiquities
Notes: "FAPESP."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Pedro Paulo Funari, Renata Garraffoni, Bethany Letalien; title: 1. The ancient world and modern perceptions: the invention of antiquity in modern times. A morphology of ancient history from a tropical, half-European viewpoint / Norberto Guarinello; title: Eurocentrism and theory in Roman archaeology: a further contribution to the romanization debate / Richard Hingley; title: Post-colonial thoery, the art of the western provinces, and the warrior reliefs from Osuna / William Mierse; title: Antiquity serving the "extreme rights" in France: GRECE, Front national and Terre et peuple / Glaydson Silva; title: The construction of archaeological identities in Lebanon: archaeology, colonialism, nationalism and Frankenstein / Tamima Orra Mourad; title: Dom Pedro II visits antique shop in Jerusalem (a controversy around Moabite antique pieces and the "Shapira Affair") / Reuven Faingold; title: The invention of antiquity in South American through Egyptomania / Margareth Bakos; title: Egypt and Brazil: an educational approach / Raquel Funari; title: 2. Ancient economy, politics and society: evidence and interpretive models. The symbolic meaning of the Vitruvian city / Alexandros Ph. Lagopoulos; title: Gladiator fighs on the northwestern frontier of the Roman Empire / Renata Senna Garraffoni and Paedro Paulo A. Funari; title: Modeling the macro-economics of the Roman Empire, or globalization as world-systmes without the guilt / Glenn Storey; title: Agrarian systems in Roman Spain: archaeological approaches / Victor Revilla; title: New methods for the study of the social landscape from Laietania wine production region (NE Spain) / Oriol Olesti and César Carreras; title: The ammona militaris in the Tingitana: observations on the organization and provisioning of the Roman troops / Lluis Pons Pujol; title: Provincial interdependence in the Roman Empire: an explanatory model of Roman economy / José Remesal-Rodríguez; title: (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; title: Power and solar cult in ancient Egypt: an iconographic and politic-religious approach / Júlio Gralha; title: Concordia, discord and political legacy: the rule of Geta and Caracalla / Ana Teresa Gonçalves; title: 3. Ancient representations: subjectivities and identities in interpreting gender, ethnicity, religion, literature and art. The erotic collection of Pompeii: archaeology, identity and sexuality / Marina Cavicchioli; title: Female and male in Pompeii: gender relations among the common people / Lourdes Conde Feitosa; title: The representation of age: towards a life course approach / Mary Harlow and Ray Laurence; title: Ethnicity and ancient Judaism: Jewish identities in 1st century Alexandria and Antioch / Monica Selvatici; title: Themistius, the Emperor Julian and a discussion over the concept of royalty in the 4th century A.D. / Margarida Carvalho; title: Religion, identity and conflict in the later Roman Empire: Constantine and the contention for the Dominium Mundi (312-324) / Gilvan Ventura da Silva; title: The literary existence of Polygnotus of Thasos and its problematic utilization in painted pottery studies / Pedro L. M. Sanches; title: Characteristics and names of the extreme types of speech according to Dionysius of Halicarnassus / Marcos Martinho.