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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...

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...

"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...

The Underworld of Bars in Roman Antiquity

By Márcio Monteneri, Ms. in Social History, Universidade de São Paulo Bars were one of the hallmarks of Roman cities. In Ostia and...

Nicknames and Politics in Republican Rome

By Giovan do Nascimento, PhD candidate, University of São Paulo. Nicknames can be seen as means of political participation of the popular...

The Kalends of January: Popular Culture in Late Antiquity

Lucy Grig, University of Edinburgh. The best-known mid-winter festival in the ancient world is undoubtedly Saturnalia, which was...