Helena Trindade Lopes
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, History, Faculty Member
The Mediterranean was the great sea of Antiquity. And its waters, symbol of a changing world, allowed many men – Egyptians, Phoenicians, Greeks, etc. – to find and to recognize themselves in their particularities. Later, Rome, which in... more
The Mediterranean was the great sea of Antiquity. And its waters, symbol of a changing world, allowed many men – Egyptians, Phoenicians, Greeks, etc. – to find and to recognize themselves in their particularities. Later, Rome, which in just three centuries redesigned the world, ensured that the messages of the early times – of Egyptian, Phoenician and Greek spaces – penetrated this world. It added others – law and religion – and thus it was shaped Western civilization, which is Roman and Greek, but it is also African and Oriental, via a river whose waters "drew" the history of the world.
The research group Antiguidade e a sua Recepção |Antiquity and its reception (CHAM – Centro de Hitória d'Áquem e d'Além-Mar | Portuguese Center for Global History) is organizing a conference under the theme: Sources to study Antiquity:... more
The research group Antiguidade e a sua Recepção |Antiquity and its reception (CHAM – Centro de Hitória d'Áquem e d'Além-Mar | Portuguese Center for Global History) is organizing a conference under the theme: Sources to study Antiquity: from texts to material culture. It will be a scientific meeting featuring the participation of several researchers and keynote speakers such as Helen Strudwick (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge) and Nigel Strudwick (Memphis University). The conference will address Antiquity's different chronologies, including Egypt, Mesopotamia and the Hellenistc and Roman worlds. The aim is to cover a vast historical and cultural horizon, which will allow us to consider the different sources underlying the historical narrative – archaeological, iconographic and textual sources, among others-highlighting their specificities and complementarities. We invite all researchers to participate in the conference and to submit an abstract for a 20 minute presentation considering our guidelines.