Mardi, 13 Janvier 2026 08:37
Marie Ledentu
Vassiliki Panoussi et William Hutton (éd.), Memory, Ritual, and Identity in Ancient Greece and Rome, Berlin, 2025.
Éditeur : De Gruyter
446 pages
ISBN : 9783111197319
139,95 €
The essays in this volume consider the triptych of memory, ritual, and identity in ancient Greece and Rome. The issue of identity has recently dominated the arena of public discourse with renewed urgency, and in antiquity as in the current day, identities were created through an amalgamation of multivalent views and values. Individual identities were inextricably linked to collective identifications and informed by shared memories and experiences; these in turn shaped the narratives and practices that perpetuated connections within the community. Ritual played a foundational role in this process, as a deeply felt, iterative action that brought members of a community together to form powerful memories through which they negotiated their relationships with one another and with society at large. With contributions on ancient Greek and Roman literature, politics, religion, and material culture, and with a chronological scope ranging from archaic Greece to early Christendom, this volume examines the synergy of memory, ritual, and identity from multiple disciplinary perspectives and provides both an illustration of the variety of configurations that synergy took in Greco-Roman antiquity and how they persisted and evolved over time.
Source : De Gruyter Brill
Lundi, 12 Janvier 2026 07:59
Marie Ledentu
Fernando Lozano, Juan Manuel Cortés Copete et Elena Muñiz-Grijalvo (éd.), Narratives of the Roman Empire. How to Make Rome with Words and Rituals, Berlin, 2025.
Éditeur : De Gruyter
376 pages
ISBN : 9783111706931
129,95 €
Since Republican times, Rome has fostered ideological constructs aimed at justifying its conquest and domination of the Mediterranean. This process gathered steam in the imperial age, as the contributions of the conquered regions gradually assimilated into the empire.
Words and rituals represented the empire not as the Roman domination of conquered nations, but as a community capable of integrating the provincials. This was not merely an ideological construct: the new community was indeed a result of the integration of different peoples and their political, cultural and religious traditions.
This idea of empire was present at very different levels: documents directly emanating from the emperors and all kinds of literature. Rites also contributed to shaping imperial discourse, laying firm ideological foundations for the symbolic construction of the community and disseminating the imperial discourse among its members.
Words and rituals contributed to creating new mindsets that progressively supplemented the old political and social mores and customs with a new ‘narrative of empire', and vice versa: narratives contributed to shaping the very idea of empire.
Source : De Gruyter Brill
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Vendredi, 09 Janvier 2026 14:01
Tasos Grigorakis
Krešimir Matijević, Rubina Raja et Jörg Rüpke (dir.), Caesar's Visions and Impact on the Roman Empire: Revisiting the Archaeological and Historical Record of the 40s BC, Turnhout, 2025.
Éditeur : Brepols
Collection : Rome Studies, vol. 2
x + 236 pages
ISBN : 978-2-503-61930-9
130 € (H.T.)
Conqueror of Gaul, textbook author, demagogue, gravedigger of the Republic, first emperor: Caesar, and in particular the Caesar of the 40s BC, is equally Roman superstar and notorious dictator, and certainly one of the most controversial figures of Roman history. Bringing together specialists of various disciplines and representatives of different schools of thought, this volume offers a fresh appreciation of both Caesar as an historical character and of a period that irrevocably turned Rome into a military, political, and cultural centre and a point of reference for the ancient Mediterranean world.
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Jeudi, 08 Janvier 2026 08:04
Thibaud Lanfranchi
Rome et la mer à l'époque républicaine
''Rencontres d'histoire de la République Romaine'' 2026
Toulouse (France), 3-4 septembre 2026
Appel à contributions
Date limite : 13 mars 2026
Les Romains sont, c'est bien connu, un peuple de paysans, terrien et ignare des choses maritimes. Il n'est que de penser à la légende relative à l'origine de leur marine de guerre : c'est en copiant un navire carthaginois échoué qu'ils auraient réussi, durant la première guerre punique (264-241 av. n.è.), à élaborer une flotte leur permettant de tenir tête à leurs adversaires (Polybe, I, 20, 15-16). Dans le même ordre d'idée, les éloges du site de Rome, à brève distance de la côte sans être directement en bord de mer, illustreraient eux aussi cette supposée réticence des Romains à la navigation et, plus généralement, leur rapport inquiet et prudent aux espaces maritimes. On pensera ici aux discours de Camille après la prise de Rome par les Gaulois (390 av. n.è.) ou aux réflexions de Cicéron en la matière dans le De Re Publica :
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