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IMC 2021: Sessions

Session 226: Frontiers of Late Antiquity, I: The Frontiers of Roman and Barbarian Identity

Monday 5 July 2021, 14.15-15.45

Organiser:Adrastos Omissi, School of Humanities (Classics), University of Glasgow
Moderator/Chair:Rebecca Usherwood, School of Classics, University of St Andrews
Paper 226-aScythians and Getae: Shifting Ethnographies in the Late Antique Danubian Borderland
(Language: English)
Timothy C. Hart, Department of History University of Massachusetts Amherst
Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Social History
Paper 226-bThe Danube as a Physical and Symbolic Frontier in the 4th Century
(Language: English)
Davide Salvo, Department of Classics State University of New York Buffalo
Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Social History
Abstract

This session explores one of the Late Antique world's most important frontiers, that which divided the Roman Empire from barbarian Europe. The papers explore the frontier between Roman and barbarian both as a negotiated cultural idea (Hart) and as a physical border (Salvo).