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Sophia Zoumbaki (NHRF):
Roman and Italian ‘businessmen’ in Greece: From mobility to migration and from interaction to integration
7 November: 9:00 UK; 11:00 EET; 17:00 Beijing
https://durhamuniversity.zoom.us/j/99086467162?pwd=uEqg3QeukcKLyBugnqvcf8eu1M0qN3.1
Meeting ID: 990 8646 7162
Passcode: 584926
"The aim of my presentation is to offer an overview of the presence of private Italians and Romans in towns of Greece proper from the 3rd c. BC to the 1st c. AD. Private Italians and Romans aiming above all at the search for profit opportunities started to move systematically to the East from the 3rd c. BC onwards. At the beginning, isolated individuals from various places of Italy are to be found in poleis of the Greek mainland and the adjacent islands, but gradually they are mentioned in the epigraphic sources as a distinct group within local societies, separate from other foreign residents. Their engagements as well as their economic success differed from place to place depending on local natural resources, geographic location and the general prevailing circumstances. In various cases, these people belonged to professional networks linking eastern Mediterranean with Rome.
It will be examined how the presence of Italians and Roman in towns of Greece evolved from mobility to migration and from cultural interaction to progressive integration and acculturation into the life of the host-towns. Either attested as collectivities (e.g. cives Romani / Italici / Ἴταλικοί/Ῥωμαῖοι + various definitions of their occupation or place of residence), as for example on Delos, or as individuals, as e.g. in Athens, these people adopted various strategies for their integration into the host societies.
Furthermore, it will be attempted to shed light on their role in social and economic life of the host communities as well as on the mutual impact between the foreign and local element, which led gradually in various cases to the shaping of a new physiognomy of the Greek poleis."
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Sophia Zoumbaki is Research Director, Institute of Historical Research (IHR), Section of Greek and Roman Antiquity (KERA), of the National Hellenic Research Foundation (NHRF). She studied at the Department of History and Archaeology of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Athens (1983-1988) and at the Institut für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik of the University of Vienna, where she obtained her M.Phil. and Ph.D. (1995).
She worked at the Sculpture Collection of the National Archaeological Museum in Athens (1989) and as collaborator in various research projects of KERA/NHRF (1988-1993). She has taken part in several Greek and international campaigns of field archaeology, both excavations and archaeological surface surveys (e.g. Ceos, Bouthrotos, Oiniadai).
She has carried out several research programs financed by National and European funds, both as a coordinator and as a participant. Her scholarly activities include university teaching of Ancient History (at a post-graduate level and under-graduate level at Greek universities) and supervision of doctoral theses and habilitations at universities of Greece and Europe.
Her main ongoing projects are: 1. Social and economic integration of Romans and Italians in Greek poleis from the 3rd c. BC, 2. Inscription of Sulla’s trophy at Orchomenos (Boeotia) and Sulla’s activity in the East on the basis of literary and epigraphic sources, 3. In the context of an interdisciplinary program (funded by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan), examination of the impact of the ongoing climate change on monuments of cultural heritage and of the diachronic interaction between environment and the organization of ancient societies and their constructions.
