Seafaring and Mobility in the Late Antique Mediterranean

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Note on Translations
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Introduction: Approaches to the Later Imperial Mediterranean as an Environment
Emilia Mataix Ferrandiz (Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, Finland) and Antti Lampinen (Finnish Institute at Athens, Greece)

Part I: Imagination and Domination: The Mediterranean as a Conceptual Environment

1. Knights, Kings, and Dragons: The Symbolic Conquest of the Mediterranean Sea in Late Antiquity and its Historical Background
Joanna Toeyraeaenvuori (University of Helsinki, Finland)

2. Migrating Mosaics: Transforming Images of Oceanus and Marine Environments from the Imperial Period to Late Antiquity
Alexandra Grigorieva (University of Helsinki, Finland)

3. Mediterranean as a Contested Environment in Late Antiquity
Antti Lampinen (Finnish Institute at Athens, Greece)

Part II: A Networked Environment

4. Connecting People in the Mediterranean: Mobility and Migration in Ostia and Portus Arja Karivieri (Institutum Romanum Finlandiae, Finland)

5. ... d?? ??s?? p??e?? ... Taking the Island Route: Trade and exchange along the coast of Southern Naxos Hallvard Indjerd (British School at Athens, Greece)

6. 'Stepping across thresholds": Islands as Resilient Spaces of Connectivity in the Passage from Late Antiquity to the early Middle Ages (c. 500-ca. 700)
Luca Zavagno (Bilkent University, Turkey) and Zeynep Olgun (Koc University, Turkey)

Part III: Braving the Sea in the Later Empire

7. 'Washed by the Waves'. Fighting against Shipwrecking in the Later Roman Empire
Emilia Mataix Ferrandiz (Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, Finland)

8. Upwind Sailing Capabilities of Square-Rigged Ships in Late Antiquity and the Ramifications for Trade Networks
Doug Forsyth (University of St Andrews, UK)

9. On the Byzantine Tradition of D. 14.2.9 (Maec. ex lege Rhodia): A Note concerning the Emperor as Ruler on the Sea
Valerio Massimo Minale (Bocconi University, Spain)

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• História antiga: a c 500 CE
• Arqueologia
• História marítima
• Transporte: interesse geral

ancient Mediterranean; sea; maritime; ancient world; ancient environment; archaeology; classics; ancient literature; ships; sailing; Ostia; ports