Description: Papers presented at a conference held October 16-18, 2014 in Berlin supported by Fritz Thyssen Stiftung and by Excellence Cluster Topoi.
Brief description: Orietta Cordovana graduated in Classics and Classical Archaeology at the University La Sapienza in Rome, Ph.D. in Ancient History at the University of Messina. She lectured in Rome at La Sapienza, was a Humboldt fellow at the Freie Universitat Berlin, Marie Curie fellow at the University of Edinburgh and at the AIAS, Aarhus University. Gian Franco Chiai graduated in Classics and Ancient History at the University La Sapienza in Rome, Ph.D. in Ancient History in Rome, La Sapienza. He was a fellow at the Universities of Heidelberg and Eichstatt, the Freie Universitat Berlin and at the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften.