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Thinking and defining poverty in ancient Egypt
By Delphine Driaux, FWF Elise Richter Fellow at the University of Vienna We live these days in a world where social inequalities are...
Delphine Driaux
Dec 20, 20235 min read
Homes of the Living in Ancient Egypt
By Thais Rocha da Silva, Research Fellow at the University of São Paulo and Harris Manchester College (University of Oxford) and...
Thais Rocha da Silva
Nov 19, 20214 min read
The (In)Visibility of Workers: From Antiquity to the Modern World
By Fábio Duarte Joly, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto. The Covid-19 pandemic, in addition to being a serious health crisis that the...
Fabio Joly
Nov 11, 20215 min read
Anatolian Women: Who Were the Secondary Wives of the Assyrian Merchants?
By Anita Fattori, PhD candidate in Social History, University of São Paulo. “Puzur-Ishtar married Ishtar-Lamassī, daughter of Assur-nada,...
Anita Fattori
Oct 25, 20214 min read
Interview: "I think about how much pain and blood there is behind the ideals"
Maria Cecilia Colombani, Philosophy professor at the University of Morón, Argentina, was in São Paulo between June 10 and 14, 2019 for a...
Nara Oliveira
Oct 22, 20212 min read
Pandemic and Inequality: The Justinianic Plague
By Julio Cesar Magalhães de Oliveira, University of São Paulo. The rapid spread of the new coronavirus and the transformation of Covid-19...
Julio Magalhaes
Oct 20, 20215 min read
Roman Children: What Can You Know About Them?
By Renata Senna Garraffoni, Universidade Federal do Paraná. If I started this text by asking: were there children among the ancient...
Renata Garraffoni
Oct 11, 20214 min read
Frontier to Whom?
By Pedro Benedetti, PhD in Social History by the Universidade de São Paulo. The wall on the Mexican American border has always been a...
Pedro Benedetti
Oct 7, 20214 min read
Women Martyrs beyond the Feminine Ideal
By Juliana Marques Morais, Doctor in Social History, Universidade de São Paulo. Among the sumptuous buildings that make up the Roman...
Juliana Morais
Oct 5, 20214 min read
Popular Culture in Classical Antiquity - 30 Years. Interview with Pedro Paulo Funari
Published in 1989, the book Cultura Popular na Antiguidade Clássica (São Paulo: Contexto), by Pedro Paulo A. Funari, today Professor at...
Nara Oliveira
Sep 28, 20216 min read
Street Work and Commerce in Roman Antiquity
By Rafael Monpean, PhD candidate in Social History, University of São Paulo. Every year a few million tourists visit Rome, Ostia,...
rafael.monpean
Sep 18, 20214 min read
A Form of Popular Justice: The Escrache
By Cristina Rosillo López, Universidad Pablo de Olavide “It was done aloud and with a kind of song to be heard from afar, which caused a...
Cristina Rosillo López
Sep 16, 20213 min read
Interview: When the Masters became Slaves
Interview with Adriane da Silva Duarte, professor of Greek Language and Literature at the Departamento de Letras Clássicas de Vernáculas...
Nara Oliveira
Sep 14, 20217 min read
Circus Factions: Rebels or Hooligans?
By Julio Cesar Magalhães de Oliveira, Universidade de São Paulo. The street demonstrations by fans of rival football teams united in...
Julio Magalhaes
Sep 4, 20215 min read
How Democracies Are Reborn
By Fábio Augusto Morales, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Morena dos olhos d'água, tire os seus olhos do mar Vem ver que a vida...
Fabio Morales
Sep 1, 20215 min read
Slavery in Rome: Between Home and Public Space
By Fábio Joly, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto. Few moments enable us to glimpse, in such a direct and accentuated way, the political...
F'ábio Joly
Aug 31, 20214 min read
Were the Early Christians Subalterns?
By Pedro Paulo A. Funari, Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Paulo Nogueira, a notorious scholar of ancient religiosity, returns in his...
Pedro Paulo Funari
Aug 28, 20213 min read
"I Ask that You Avenge Me": The Curse Tablets as Popular Practice
By Jessica Brustolim, Master's student in Social History, University of São Paulo. Around 130 BCE, in the city of Mogontiacum...
Jessica Brustolim
Aug 26, 20214 min read
Women in Commerce in Mesopotamia
By Anita Fattori, PhD candidate in Social History, University of São Paulo. One day, on a remote tour in the ancient Mesopotamia, I come...
Anita Fattori
Aug 25, 20214 min read
The Slums of Ancient Rome: Words and Things
By Cyril Courrier (Aix-Marseille Université) and Jean-Pierre Guilhembet (Université Paris-Diderot-Université de Paris). The image of the...
Cyril Courrier
Aug 24, 20215 min read
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