“δηλοῖ δὲ τὴν τρυφὴν αὐτῶν καὶ ἡ πολυτέλεια τῶν μνημείων”. Lusso e ostentazione nelle necropoli di Akragas

La scultura tra Taranto e la Grecia. Per una revisione della documentazione scultorea

This paper explores the sculptural tradition of Taras, starting from the contributions of ancient sculptors known through literary and epigraphic sources. It assesses the long-standing research approaches and their impact on key issues, such as the relationship with Greek traditions. The reappraisal of significant examples, particularly funerary reliefs, challenges established chronologies and stylistic attributions. By comparing Tarentine works with major artistic centres, such as Athens,...

Portrait Mummies from Antinoöpolis as Evidence for Élite Interaction between Egypt and Syria

This paper examines the mummy shrouds from Antinoöpolis in Roman Egypt and argues for a revised dating to the early third century AD, rather than the fourth century as previously proposed. Analysis of dress types and ornamentation reveals particularly close parallels with Syrian fashions, especially those of Palmyra. The study concludes that local elites followed a broader imperial trend toward more elaborate dress that emerged around the turn of the second and third centuries. Yet inspired b...

Seiano e il nuovo modello europeo di favorito

This paper explores the early modern reinvention of Sejanus as a political archetype and situates his seventeenth-century revival within the broader European rise of the minister-favorite. Although Pierre Matthieu’s 1617 Ælius Seianus implicitly identified the Roman prefect with Concino Concini after his assassination, this association should not be read as a purely French invention. Rather, it formed part of a wider transformation in political discourse linked to the Spanish valimiento, espe...