The Formation and Transformation of Space and
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Waterways: border, access, infrastructures

research project: B-1-1

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  • Events
2017
Jul 20, 2017Rector maris: Sextus Pompeius und das Meer
Conference
2016
Oct 01, 2016"Tam diu Germania vincitur" - Roms Aufgabe Germaniens vor 2000 Jahren
RINGVORLESUNG AM FRIEDRICH-MEINECKE-INSTITUT DER FREIEN UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN
Lecture Series
2014
May 22, 2014Reich oder Gross-Staat? Zum Versagen integrativer Staatenbildungen im klassischen Griechenland
Lecture
May 13, 2014The invention of a new genre
Lecture

Research Group

Routes – Water – Knowledge

Dissertations

Rule of the Sea: The Evolution and Transformation of an Ancient Concept from Thucydides to the later Roman Republic
To the Ends of the Earth. The Book of Acts as Universal History in the context of Roman and Jewish Historiography during the Roman Imperial Era.
Stable Systems? Risk and Uncertainty in the Ancient Economy
Maritime Revolution? Sextus Pompeius and the genesis of the Principate

Members

Ryan Balot
Ernst Baltrusch
Sophie Downes
Benjamin Earley
Seth N. Jaffe
Richard N. Lebow
Neville Morley
Clifford Orwin
Kurt Raaflaub
Oliver Schelske
Winfried Schmitz
Christian Wendt

Doctoral Fellows

Laura Kersten
Hans Gerhard Kopp
Julika Wilcke



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