Miko Flohr - Hegemonic Prosperity and Everyday Inequality in the Roman Empire
While it is long known that the Roman Empire had a profound impact on everyday social dynamics in the Mediterranean and beyond, the lived reality of this impact in urban communities has long been studied through fairly schematic, universalist models that mostly project European (elite) perceptions of the more recent colonial and industrial past backwards on the Roman empire.
This paper will suggest that adapting concepts from globalization theory can make it possible to develop a more diversified and nuanced picture of social developments in the Roman Empire. It will argue that the point is not so much that empire formation generated inequality in the Roman world, but how, where, and when it did, and how that inequality became situated in everyday processes of human interaction.
Practical
Date 8 April
Time 16:00
Place IISG, Cruquiusweg 31, Amsterdam
Entrance Free entrance, but please register at event@iisg.nl
Miko Flohr is University Lecturer in Ancient History at Leiden University. His work addresses the impact of empire formation on everyday social and economic practice in urban communities in the ancient world. He recently published A Companion to Cities in the Greco-Roman World (ed. with Arjan Zuiderhoek) and is finishing a monograph on architecture and commerce in the Roman Empire.
