(Not) all roads lead to Rome : : interdisciplinary approaches to mobility in the ancient world.

• Author: Lario Devesa, Arnau.
• TeilnehmendeR: Campmany Jiménez, Joan.; Marzo Pallàs, Marc.
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford : : Archaeopress,, 2023.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (266 pages)

This book considers mobility in Antiquity in its broadest sense from a multidisciplinary perspective. Although mobility is always present in studies of exchange and cultural diffusion, here it is discussed as a key feature of societies, inherent to their functioning and where cultural, social and economic processes meet.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Information -- Copyright Information -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Arnau Lario Devesa, Joan Campmany Jiménez, Marc Marzo Pallàs, Oriol Morillas Samaniego -- I. Migration and human mobility -- Female mobility in diplomatic and military practice during the Roman expansion in the West (III-II c. BC) -- Borja Vertedor Ballesteros -- Hatin Boumehache Erjali -- Understanding late antique mobility and "migrants" in modern thought -- Teifion Gambold -- II. Social mobility -- Archaeological and spatial analysis of the Egyptian city of Lahun (Middle Kingdom, Fayum) -- Laura Hernando Folch -- The game of land: authority and adversary from a Ptolemaic land survey (P.HAUN. IV 70)* -- Chenqing An -- Power and control: understanding prostitution in ancient times -- Carina Mkrtchiyan -- III. Moving identities and cultural/religious interactions -- Mobility at the crossroads: careers and progression during the transition from Domitian to Trajan* -- Antonio Romano -- Travelling mythologies: the movement of the divine throughout the Mediterranean and beyond -- Zeren Deniz Ataçocuğu -- The cult of Arsinoe II Philadelphus. The 'international' success of a Greek-Egyptian goddess -- Anita Malagrinò Mustica -- Fashioning a sense of belonging. Place in the commemorative epigrams of Gregory of Nazianzus &amp -- Ausonius of Bordeaux -- Mathijs Clement -- La dispersión del culto martirial de santos y santas locales por el territorio de Hispania entre los siglos IV-VI -- Víctor Gómez Guinovart -- IV. Political trends and practices -- Whistles, applause and the welcoming of politicians by the Italic people: non-verbal expression of the crowd in the Late Ancient Republic -- Agata Otranto -- Rhetoric and mobility: an innovative vision of mobility in the post-Diocletian era -- Antonio Avilio.

Changes in late-antique Gaul: Gregory of Tours as an exceptional witness of social, economic and political mobility -- Davide Vago -- Episcopal correspondence in fifth-century Gaul. Leadership in times of crisis -- Àngel Rodríguez García -- V. Trade and movement of goods -- The journey of a ceramic shape: trading black-figure amphorae to Iberia* -- Alejandro Garés-Molero -- Guiomar Pulido-González -- Garés-Molero and Pulido-González -- Marmora and commerce: the case of the mortars in public spaces of Baetulo* -- Andrea Collado Padilla -- Greek amphoric epigraphy and Mediterranean trade through the study of Rhodian amphora stamps in the CEIPAC database -- Oriol Morillas Samaniego -- Amphora typology and commercial mobility. Thoughts on the Tarraconensis case -- Carlos Palacín Copado -- The regulation of maritime transport in the Edict on Maximum Prices, a major cause of its failure -- Antoni Nieva.