The research group Antiquity and its reception, as part of the CHAM, is organising an international conference under the title “On the border between Myth and History – Representations of Space and Power in Antiquity”. It is a scientific meeting that will be attended by researchers from the CHAM and also by major foreign researchers, namely Jean-Claude Margueron, Béatrice Muller-Margueron, Alain Gigandet, Joanna Popielska-Grzybowska and Juan Luis Montero. The conference will deal with the whole timeline of Antiquity, from Egypt and Mesopotamia to the Hellenistic and Roman worlds, covering a wide historical and cultural horizon, and thus allowing a perspective upon some of its essential features, such as myth and religion, and their nature and function. The extent of this diachronic approach will also allow us to consider and analyse the fundamental points of connection and cultural continuity throughout Antiquity.

Alongside the approach of the chronologies of Antiquity, the conference will also focus on a theme that has a special reason to be within the CHAM: the reception of Antiquity, that is, how the several Antiquities were received, understood and integrated during other times, especially in the Early Modern period. In this epoch, Europeans built an image of the East and Antiquity that derived from the reading of the Classical authors and the Bible, but also from the travels and journeys across Asia. This vision of Antiquity and the East became important for the construction of the European identity as well as for a vision on alterity.

In order to register please do registration on-line until April 17.

Organization Comittee

Bárbara Botelho Rodrigues (CHAM)
Edgar Fernandes (CHAM)
Isabel Gomes de Almeida (CHAM)

Cientific Comittee

António Moniz (CHAM)
Francisco Caramelo (CHAM)
Helena Trindade Lopes (CHAM)
Leonor Santa Bárbara (CHAM)
Maria do Rosário Laureano Santos (CHAM)

Organised by

CHAM / NOVA FCSH | UAc

Cartaz | Poster (.pdf)
Programa | Programme (.pdf)
Abstracts Book (.pdf)