Search for dissertations about: "Rome"
Showing result 6 - 10 of 61 swedish dissertations containing the word Rome.
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6. Sempronia's Song : Attitudes to Women's Music-making in Ancient Rome
Abstract : This study explores attitudes towards women’s music-making in ancient Rome (c. 120 BC–130 AD), as expressed in love poetry, satire, letters, historiography, biography, rhetoric and philosophy. The texts are studied from an intersectional perspective considering gender, social status, age and ethnicity to explain various attitudes. READ MORE
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7. Staging the world. Rome and the other in the triumphal procession
Abstract : The triumphal procession staged Roman conquest and supremacy, featuring the defeated ‘other’ as opposed to the victorious ‘self’ in a rather fixed role-playing. This thesis takes as its theoretical premise that these ritually recurrent and visually emphatic processions both conveyed and constructed Roman views of the self and the other, and that they can be studied as formative expressions of such conceptions. READ MORE
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8. Gloria muliebris: Elite female status competition in Mid-Republican Rome
Abstract : Elite status competition permeated mid-Republican Rome (264–133 BCE). Struggles for superiority in status among the senatorial elite catalysed social growth and conflict in the res publica: competition and the desire for glory suffused elite society. READ MORE
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9. Cultural and socio-political development in south Etruria. : The Biedano region in the 5th to 1st centuries BC
Abstract : The town of Blera is situated in the southern parts of Etruria and has a history spanning more than 2,500 years. Its location between the two important Etruscan cities of Tarquinii and Caere has meant that Blera, for the entire Etruscan period (c. 750–50 BC), alternatively has found itself in either city’s sphere of interest. READ MORE
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10. Dazzling Dining : Banquets as an Expression of Imperial Legitimacy
Abstract : This study examines how banquets hosted by the Roman emperor were vehicles of imperial propaganda and expressions of the ruler’s political legitimation. The focus will be on the banquets held in the palace of Domus Augustana in Rome and in the Great Palace in Constantinople during the period AD 330-580. READ MORE