In this instalment of our “Unknown Peoples” Series, we feature the research of Thelma Beth Minney, a PhD candidate in CLassical Archaeology at Stanford University. In this post, she takes us through her research on the shifting religious practices of Punic Peoples in the Western Mediterranean following their absorption into the Roman Empire.
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Blog #90: The Illyrians with Danijel Džino
This week’s blog post by Danijel Džino introduces us to the Illyrians, an Indigenous Iron Age population that inhabited the eastern Adriatic and its surroundings, through a discussion of their politics, literary attestations and broader interactions with other Mediterranean communities.
Blog #89: Beyond Rome: The Indigenous People of Ancient Italy
In this week’s blog post, Claudia Paparella, a graduate student at the University of Toronto, takes us through her research on the Indigenous Peoples of ancient Italy through an analysis of the epigraphic and archaeological remains that they have left behind.
Blog Post #88: Graduate Student Feature with Sophia Taborski
The final instalment of our Halloween series is a grad student feature with Sophia Taborski, PhD student at Cornell, studying how curses teach us about intersecting identities, power structures, violence, and resistance in the Roman empire.
Blog Post #87: The Perils of Love: Love Spells in Coptic Magic with Roxanne Bélanger Sarrazin
In this instalment of our Halloween Feature on Curses, Roxanne Bélanger Sarrazin highlights her research on magic as lived religion. In particular, she addresses the ways in which Christians perpetuated magical practices that had existed in Egypt for millennia, but were adapted to make them their own.
Blog Post #86: “In Blood and Ashes”: An Interview with Jessica Lamont
In our latest instalment of our Halloween series on “Cursing in the Ancient World” we are interviewing Dr. Jessica Lamont, Assistant Professor at Yale University, on her newly published book through Oxford “In Blood and Ashes: Curse Tablets and Binding Spells in Ancient Greece.” Dr. Lamont shares with us the questions and research that inspire this work, providing remarkable insight into the real people behind the curses in the ancient Mediterranean.
Blog Post #85: Graduate Student Feature with Charlotte Spence
We’re back for another month of Halloween-related content here at Peopling the Past. This month we are feature blogs that deal with cursing in the Ancient World. Our first post in this series features the work of Charlotte Spence, a PhD Candidate at the University of Exeter, who’s work explore the ways in which ancient individuals conceived of the role of the dead and the gods in carrying out curses.
Blog Post #84: Graduate Student Feature with Anisa Mara
In this week’s blog post, we interview Anisa Mara, a PhD Candidate in the Department of Art History at the University of Toronto. Anisa takes us through her work studying Bronze Age pottery from legacy collections of excavations in Albania to understand community organization, mobility, and social diversification during a period of significant change in this region.
Blog Post #83: Graduate Student Feature with Dora Gao
In this week’s blog post, we interview Dora Gao, a Ph.D. Candidate in the Interdepartmental Program in Ancient History (IPAH) at the University of Michigan, who takes us through their research on religious kinship, affect, and belonging in Ptolemaic Egypt with a particular focus on marginalized populations.
Blog Post #82: The Penestai of the Thessalians with Gino Canlas
In the latest instalment of our Unknown Peoples series, Dr. Gino Canlas introduces us to the Penestai, a people belonging to the serf class that lived in the Thessalian plains.
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