The region of Campania with its fertility and volcanic landscape exercised great influence
over the Roman cultural imagination. A hub of activity outside the city of Rome, the Bay of …

Naples occupied an important position in Roman Italy. It was a key Roman ally in Campania
and from the second century bc it was also an important cultural center, whose Greek past …

Daniel Orrells examines the ways in which the ancient world was visualized for
Enlightenment readers, and reveals how antiquarian scholarship emerged as the principal …

This paper explores the cultural-ideological dimensions of Philostratus's Imagines, a series
of prose descriptions of paintings purportedly on display in a third-century CE Neapolitan …

This dissertation is a cultural history of the Greek dramatic festivals under the Roman
Empire, primarily from literary and epigraphic sources. I argue against the idea that Greek …

Rome is located in central Italy, not far from the sea, in the centre of a vast territory, mainly
characterized by agricultural and urban uses, with several groups of hills and mountains all …

The Neapolitan urban region shows evident traces of its geological and anthropological
history. In many narratives, Naples is a city adrift, a land of active volcanoes, devastated by …

Sofia Greaves 138 north. Herein I take a similar approach by exploring three texts written
between the years 1860 and 1914. Each provides a window into a key moment during the …

In my article I investigate the complex meaning of the Italian word geniale in Elena
Ferrante's tetralogy L'amica geniale, employing the Latin concepts of genius, genialis and …

While the use of technology, including that of digital platforms, is by now quite common, the
choice of cities as the content of an online platform for language teaching and learning …