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The Global, the Local and the Glocal
Recent Approaches in Roman Archaeology
The Global, the Local and the Glocal
Recent Approaches in Roman Archaeology
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This volume explores the impact of Rome's globalizing empire upon identity and visual culture in its western and eastern provinces. It focuses particularly on the realities of glocal identities, the interconnectivity between people, ideas and technology, and the diverse and uniting nature of the empire.
The issue of how identities are shaped and remoulded by Roman conquest, and by the aftermath of empire, are central to contemporary debates across the disciplines of classical archaeology and ancient history. The theoretical framework of glocalization offers a starting point for nuanced discussion through its exploration of the adaptation of a global phenomenon to local realities. Informed by this innovative paradigm and drawing on a wide array of sources, the chapters in this volume range across iconography, religion, settlements, imperial power and identities. Together they investigate the ways in which local actors engaged with imperial structures, and how this phenomenon varied across the different provinces.
Table of Contents
1. The House of Orpheus in Nea Paphos and Other Residences in Cyprus and Cyrenaica – A Local Phenomenon in a Global Empire? (Monika Rekowska, University of Warsaw, Poland; Eleonora Gasparini, Università degli Studi della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Italy; Patrizio Pensabene, University “La Sapienza” in Rome, Italy; Demetrios Michaelides, University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
2. Global or Glocal? Considering the Role of Collegia in Shaping Identities in the Roman North-West (Alessandra Esposito, King's College London, UK)
3. How to Integrate an Emperor: The Relationship between the Roman Emperor and Apollo Didymeus as Represented in the Provincial Coinage of Miletus (Julius Roch, International Max Planck Research School for the Anthropology, Archaeology, and History of Eurasia, Germany)
4. Peasant Settlements' Networks: The North Carpetania (Spain) Region during the Roman Empire (Fernando Moreno Navarro, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
5. Phoenician Memories in Hispania: Local Pasts, Global Present (Francisco Machuca Prieto, Malaga University, Spain)
6. Regional Identities in a Glocal Context: Rural Communities of Roman Syria (Dianne van de Zande, Leiden University, The Netherlands)
7. Vocabulary and Directions of Glocalisation in Roman Syria. The Narrations of Local Funerary Monuments and Epitaphs from the Late-Antonines until Zenobia (Lukasz Sokolowski, University of Konstanz, Germany and University of Warsaw, Poland)
8. The Sacred Senate and the 'Double Ethnics' on Coins and Inscriptions: Patterns of Local Identities and 'Regionalization' in the Province of Asia under Roman Imperial Power (Luca Mazzini, University of Exeter, UK)
9. Who Were the Inhabitants of Crotone, Petelia and Metaponto? Melting Pot in Magna Grecia during Roman Times (Marc Duret, British School of Rome, Italy)
10. Orpheus Mosaics from Hispania between the Global and the Glocal (Rubén Montoya González, Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome, Italy)
11. Looking for a Provincial Identity in Roman Baetica (Sergio España-Chamorro, Escuela Española de Historia y Arqueología en Roma, Italy)
12. Lost in Transition: The Economic Integration of Rural Communities in N.-E. Iberia in the Early Roman Period (2nd-1st Cent. BCE) (Mateo González Vázquez, Universität Trier, Germany; Arnau Lario Devesa, University “La Sapienza” in Rome, Italy)
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Product details
| Published | 05 Feb 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 240 |
| ISBN | 9781350398429 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 31 bw illus |
| Dimensions | 234 x 156 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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