Cultural connections and identities

Mobility in the ancient world, driven by various factors, brought peoples into contact and often into a process of osmosis, creating networks of intercultural relations and fostering the development of new collective or individual identities. Through war, conquest, trade, and other occasions for peaceful or non-peaceful interaction, goods, techniques, innovations, knowledge, artworks, ideas, beliefs, and cults circulated—shaping individuals, communities, and entire peoples. This inexhaustible thematic area is explored within the Section of Greek and Roman Antiquity, through the meticulous study of written and material evidence, employing an approach that reveals compelling facets of ancient history.