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The Ancient War’s Impact on the Home Front
This volume presents a first comprehensive contribution to the exploration of the concept of the ‘home front’ in Greek and Roman Antiquity. It crosses borders between different areas of classical studies by investigating the various forms of impact that war had on the ancient home front. To this end, the book deploys a variety of methodological approaches that shed light on several aspects of the home front. These draw on advances made in the fields of psychology, literature, history, social sciences and religious studies. The volume discusses the impact of war on the civilian communities in terms of its effects above all on the level of the social and religious sphere.
A Companion to Greeks Across the Ancient World
An innovative, up-to-date treatment of ancient Greek mobility and migration from 1000 BCE to 30 BCE A Companion to Greeks Across the Ancient World explores the mobility and migration of Greeks who left their homelands in the ten centuries between the Early Iron Age and the Hellenistic period. While most academic literature centers on the Greeks of the Aegean basin area, this unique volume provides a systematic examination of the history of the other half of the ancient Greek world. Contributions from leading scholars and historians discuss where migrants settled, their new communities, and their connections and interactions with both Aegean Greeks and non-Greeks. Divided into three parts, th...
The Routledge Handbook of Gender Archaeology
This volume presents a comprehensive overview of gender archaeology, both theory and practice, and contributes a substantial and definitive reference work by bringing together state-of-the-art research, theoretical overviews, and the latest debates in the field. Responding to the shifts in the theoretical landscape and the societal and political frameworks within which we produce our knowledge, chapters create both a solid theoretical baseline which help readers grasp the significance of gender in archaeology as well as offer perspectives on how to engender produced knowledge about the past. In line with recent focus on the shortcomings of gender and archaeological representation, chapters a...
Greek and Roman Small Size Sculpture
Considerations about size and scale have always played a central role within Greek and Roman visual culture, deeply affecting sculptural production. Both Greeks and Romans, in particular, had a clear notion of “colossality” and were able to fully exploit its implications with sculpture in many different areas of social, cultural and religious life. Instead, despite their ubiquitous presence, an equal and contrary categorization for small size statues does not seem to have existed in Greek and Roman culture, leading one to wonder what were the ancient ways of conceptualizing sculptural representations in a format markedly smaller than “life-size.” Even in the context of modern scholar...
Technology, Crafting and Artisanal Networks in the Greek and Roman World
This volume aims to merge theoretical models with methodological approaches on ceramic technology and artisanal networks in the Classical world. This convergence of analytical frameworks allowed scholars to explore some traditional archaeological topics that usually have a very low-level of visibility, such as the skillful gestures of the craftspeople involved, the organization of the ceramic production, the dynamics of apprenticeship and knowledge transfer as well as intra and inter-regional artisanal mobility, in the Graeco-Roman ‘communities of practice’. The papers promote interdisciplinary dialogues among various fields of study, such as archaeology, archaeometry, anthropology, ethnoarchaeology, experimental archaeology, and digital humanities - such as Social Network Analysis, computational imaging, and big data analysis.
International Toleration
This book proposes a theory of toleration wherein liberal democracies peacefully co-exist with non-democratic societies. It conceptualises international toleration in a way that is both faithful to the liberal tradition and at the same time explains why we should accept some nonliberal and non-democratic political communities as members in good standing in international society. The volume delves into different theoretical understandings of the idea of toleration and what it has come to mean in today’s highly polarised world. It argues that classifying states as liberal and nonliberal is important but cannot explain how they should relate to one another. Putting forward a new reconstructio...
Il design spiegato a mia madre
Da bambino collezionavo immagini sacre al posto delle figurine Panini. Santa Lucia con gli occhi tra le mani o San Sebastiano trafitto da frecce mi sembravano più stimolanti dei calciatori pettinati e sorridenti. Non saremmo mai arrivati neppure alla ruota se ci fossimo basati sulle ricerche di mercato. L’ intuizione ne ha permesso la scoperta, il design è nato in seguito. Il design è fatto delle intuizioni di grandi sognatori. Ha scritto Gianni Canova: “Gli altri designer per lo più progettano oggetti. Fabio Novembre immagina mondi. Nei suoi mondi c’è la rapsodica e golosa felicità di Federico Fellini”. Visionario, eccessivo, sognatore, Novembre ammette che le sue creazioni ri...
Luisa
Il banco in legno e ottone, le alzatine colme di dolciumi e l’inconfondibile aroma di zucchero e mandorle. Quando Luisa scopre che la confetteria nel centro di Perugia è in vendita, la sente subito sua. Poco importa che il marito Annibale sia lontano, che lei sia prossima al parto e non sappia nulla di pasticceria. Imparerà. Per una ragazza che è cresciuta tra le difficoltà, non esistono ostacoli insormontabili: il nuovo secolo le ha promesso un sogno, ed è pronta ad afferrarlo. Ma neppure lei può immaginare fin dove la porterà: dal vecchio negozio nascerà la Perugina, e dalle sue mani le caramelle e i cioccolatini che hanno accompagnato generazioni. Come il Bacio, che nel cuore di...
C'era una volta in Italia
Dove eravamo rimasti? Allo scoppio di quella bomba a Milano che fece finire gli “innocenti” e “favolosi” anni sessanta. Cominciava un nuovo decennio, e il futuro aveva cambiato padroni. Gli anni settanta, secondo volume di una storia italiana che proseguirà fino ai giorni nostri, vivono ancora oggi nella memoria e nel tumulto: accanto a notevoli e veloci cambiamenti politici (l’ascesa del Pci) e sociali (le leggi sull’aborto e sul divorzio, la chiusura dei manicomi e l’obiezione di coscienza), videro una drammatica svolta violenta, passata sotto il nome di “anni di piombo”. L’eversione di destra mette bombe in treni, stazioni, università e prepara numerosi colpi di stat...
