Uno sguardo extra moenia. Riflessioni su identità culturale e circolazione di idee tra Oriente e Occidente

This work proposes a reflection on the circulation of ideas, uses, customs, roles and social problems, political ideologies and existential solutions through the analysis of archaeological, epigraphic, numismatic, literary and historiographical documents. The volume contains space for the iconography of the warrior and an essay on Odyssian geography which anticipates a historical re-reading of the myth of Orion, the music of young people in classical Athens and their education in the Roman Empire, the creation of welfare structures and the formulation of ideologies functional to the consolidation of political power; it's still, the historical analysis of the coinage which attests to relations between Cyrene and the East; the role of Sicily in age late antiquity and the problems of small Isauria. The varied picture of the volume is completed by the reports of the excavation campaigns conducted at the Kyme eolica site by Massimo Frasca of the University of Catania and the research conducted in Phrygian Hierapolis by Francesco D'Andria of the University of Salento, both with the collaboration of researchers and doctoral students from the University of Messina.