Roberta Mazza
Biographic Data
| ID | 158316 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roberta Mazza |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roberta |
| FAMILY NAME | Mazza |
| SIGNATURE | MAZZA R |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Manchester, UK |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6508-8259 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Cambridge Companion to Classics and Race
Race as a concept has had a fraught role in the history of Classics, woven into its formation as an academic discipline. While the texts and artefacts of the ancient Mediterranean world provide complex understandings of what race might mean and how it might operate, they have also provided fodder for modern racial ideologies. This Companion offers a wide-ranging and groundbreaking overview of 'race' and 'racism' in ancient Mediterranean cultures …
Descriptions and the materiality of texts
This article builds on the notions of thick and thin description elaborated by Geertz and looks at what descriptive methods have been used in the field of papyrology, a sub-discipline of classics that studies ancient manuscripts on papyrus fragments recovered through legal and illegal excavations in Egypt from the 19th century. Past generations of papyrologists have described papyri merely as resources to retrieve ancient 'texts'. In the article …
Apiones
“Apiones” indicates an aristocratic family of Egyptian origin that entered the Constantinopolitan Senate at least from the mid fifth century CE . The denomination derives from one of the two names of heads of the household, Apion and Strategius, which alternate in successive generations.
Land and landholding, Late Antiquity
Despite the profound changes of the third to seventh centuries CE , from the economic pointof view, the Late Roman Empire remained a pre‐modern agricultural economy, and as aconsequence the ownership, exploitation, and control of the land were essential for both the State and its elite members.
Economy and Society in the Age of Justinian - by Peter Sarris
Descriptions and the materiality of texts
This article builds on the notions of thick and thin description elaborated by Geertz and looks at what descriptive methods have been used in the field of papyrology, a sub-discipline of classics that studies ancient manuscripts on papyrus fragments recovered through legal and illegal excavations in Egypt from the 19th century. Past generations of papyrologists have described papyri merely as resources to retrieve ancient 'texts'. In the article …
Economy and Society in the Age of Justinian - by Peter Sarris
Apiones
“Apiones” indicates an aristocratic family of Egyptian origin that entered the Constantinopolitan Senate at least from the mid fifth century CE . The denomination derives from one of the two names of heads of the household, Apion and Strategius, which alternate in successive generations.
Land and landholding, Late Antiquity
Despite the profound changes of the third to seventh centuries CE , from the economic pointof view, the Late Roman Empire remained a pre‐modern agricultural economy, and as aconsequence the ownership, exploitation, and control of the land were essential for both the State and its elite members.
Descriptions and the materiality of texts
This article builds on the notions of thick and thin description elaborated by Geertz and looks at what descriptive methods have been used in the field of papyrology, a sub-discipline of classics that studies ancient manuscripts on papyrus fragments recovered through legal and illegal excavations in Egypt from the 19th century. Past generations of papyrologists have described papyri merely as resources to retrieve ancient 'texts'. In the article …
The Cambridge Companion to Classics and Race
Race as a concept has had a fraught role in the history of Classics, woven into its formation as an academic discipline. While the texts and artefacts of the ancient Mediterranean world provide complex understandings of what race might mean and how it might operate, they have also provided fodder for modern racial ideologies. This Companion offers a wide-ranging and groundbreaking overview of 'race' and 'racism' in ancient Mediterranean cultures …
Art (3 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · African history and culture analysis (1 works) · Agriculture (1 works) · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology (1 works)