Augustine in Ostia. The Roman City in AD 387 - Loss, Transience, Memory, and Renewal in a Harbour City. Luke Lavan, University of Kent.
This lecture explores the text of St. Augustine's Confessions, book IX, which describes his visit to the port city of Ostia in AD 387, in terms of the results of the University of Kent's excavation and survey work in 2008-2012. It presents a visual narrative of reconstructed images following the experience of Augustine, his mother and son around the city, as they waited for a ship back home to Africa. This event was held to mark the completion of a 3 year research project "The Visualisation of the Late Antique City", funded by the Leverhulme Trust (2020).
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Maritime connectivity in the Roman world: Portus, the Tiber and the sea. Peter Campbell, British School at Rome.
This talk examines Roman maritime connectivity and how ships influenced settlement patterns along rivers and coastlines, maritime infrastructure and the spread of goods and ideas. It draws on the author's maritime fieldwork in Albania, Greece and Italy, as well as archival research, ethnography and environmental modelling, in order to speak broadly about movement at sea and its impact on the ancient world (2020).
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Walking Between Gods and Mortals: reconsidering the movement of Roman religious processions. Katherine Crawford, University of Southampton.
This paper applies a network analysis and agent-based modelling approach to consider new ways of studying the movement patterns of religious processions at Ostia, Rome's ancient port (2017).
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The Roman Way of Life and Death at Ostia, the Port of Rome. Diana Kleiner, Yale University.
Professor Kleiner focuses on Ostia, the port of Rome, characterized by its multi-storied residential buildings and its widespread use of brick-faced concrete (2009).
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