Luca Mazzini
Department: Classics and Ancient History
Discipline: Classics and Ancient History
Project Summary
My PhD thesis investigates why Phrygian and Lydian civic communities claim a Macedonian ethnic on the coins and on the inscriptions in the Roman Imperial period. At the heart of my thesis are two specific case studies on the ancient cities of Blaundos and Hykranis, located in the Turkish towns of Sulumenli and Halitpaşa respectively. My analyses draw on the collection of the epigraphic and numismatic evidence related to these archaeological sites, in order to find possible interpretative patterns of the resilience or re/introduction of Macedonian identity during the Roman Imperial period. I hypothesise that the Macedonian ethnic appears only as an ethnic self-definition, or self-image, of the civic communities of Blaundos and Hyrkanis vis-à-vis Roman Empire. What I am keen to test in my thesis is to what extent the appearance of the Macedonian ethnic, as a self-definition, or self-image, of the civic communities of Blaundos and Hyrkanis is triggered by its interactions with the Roman Imperial authorities
Supervisory Team
Professor Elena Isayev.
Dr. Charlotte Tupman.
Wider Research Interests
I have dedicated myself to the study of Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor throughout my education. I have developed the requisite skill set for my chosen methodology having taken courses in Latin and Greek Epigraphy at the University of Bologna.I was awarded a scholarship to attend a workshop on Digital and Practical Epigraphy at the Institute of Classical Studies in London on April 2019.
