Ausonius - Ausonius

This 15th volume of the AFPMA series Pictor brings together the proceedings of the association’s 35th conference, held in Chartres in November 2024.

This book is based on the idea that places and objects of memory in the Aeneid function as markers of a specifically Virgilian poetics of Roman identity, at a time when defining Romanity was an essential concern within the political and social dynamics of the Augustan regime. It reveals the literary construction of a collective memory and the forging of (...)

Memoria in aeternum? Roman inscriptions were conceived as “public announcements for eternity”. Yet archaeology shows that they often had a second life: displaced, reused, repurposed or transformed, they frequently appear in contexts far removed from the one for which they had originally been carved.

The outcome of a conference (...)

Following research in the social sciences on the performativity of texts and actions, that is, on the capacity of words and deeds to produce meaning, to act on and to transform the world, archaeologists and art historians have taken an interest in this concept with a view to analysing the function of material data and the images featuring on it. This question (...)