Oxford Ancient History Faculty Seminar Hilary Term 2023
Tuesdays 4pm at the Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles
Ancient North Africa: Histories, Cities, and Landscapes
Week 2 (24 January) Olivier Hekster (Radboud University)
The Production of Memory Lane in North Africa
This lecture will explore how material and intellectual landmarks ‘created’ Roman North Africa. Buildings, statuary, coins and inscriptions that people encountered in the landscape of Roman North Africa could be reflections of Roman officialdom or of local reactions to Roman involvement in the region – and sometimes even both at the same time. How did such monuments and other landmarks help to create (and occasionally hinder) a quintessentially ‘Roman North-African’ lived space in several centuries of Roman rule?
Organisers:
Jo Quinn (josephine.quinn@classics.ox.ac.uk), Niccolò Mugnai, Monica Hellström, Tim Smith
