Dear all,
We want to remind you that the next Ancient World Seminar takes place *TODAY:
**October 19th*. *Dr. Muriel Moser *from the* Goethe Universität in
Frankfurt* will give the following lecture:
*The past as a political resource in Greece under Roman rule*
In this paper, Dr. Moser shall be presenting her new research project on
the role of local elites in the (ab)use of the past in the public and
religious sphere in Roman Greece from 100 B.C. to A.D. 100. The aim of the
project is to challenge the dominant view of a Roman cultural imperialism
(and their ideas of what it meant to be Greek) and Greek passivity or
powerlessness in Roman Greece as regards the use of the Greek past in
public narratives. In discussing examples from Olympia and Argos, (and
briefly Athens), Dr. Moser will make a case for locating agency of change
and the choice of the 'historical' narratives and motifs more firmly in the
local political and economic context: she argues that in Greece under Roman
rule, local elites, individuals and groups, mobilised the immaterial
resource of the admired (Greek) past to improve their political and
economic situation under Roman rule.
*Since finishing her PhD in Classics at Cambridge University in 2008, **Muriel
Moser* <http://www.geschichte.uni-frankfurt.de/43209471/10_Inhalt_Moser>*
has enjoyed a fellowship at the historical institute of the Universität zu
Köln and is now a lecturer and researcher in Ancient History at the
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt. Since the start of 2015, she has been the
director of the subproject *The past as a political resource: remembering
as a strategy in Greece under Roman rule
<http://www.geschichte.uni-frankfurt.de/55632897/SFB-Projekt>*, part of the
larger Sonderforschunsbereich 1095 project *Discourses of Weakness and
Resource Regimes*. This project examines how Greek elites and priesthoods
used the (Greek) past as a political resource under Roman rule. Another
field of dr. Moser’s interest is the later Roman empire, particularly the
relationship between emperor(s) and the senates of Rome and Constantinople.*
As usual, the lecture starts at *16:15* and will be held in Room 130 of
the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies (Oude Boteringestraat 38,
Groningen). Drinks will be served afterwards.
With kind regards,
The CRASIS organizing committee
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