Calenda Announcement 1,424,234 (excerpts)
The conference examines the connection between the right to land and the right to burial in ancient societies, exploring the extent to which access to a visible burial site depended on an individual’s civic status, particularly that of foreigners. It explores the strategies—legal, associative, or informal—through which individuals excluded from citizenship managed to establish a lasting presence in the funerary space. Drawing on the conceptual framework of“Free Spaces,” the discussion focuses on the gap between legal norms and actual funerary practices, and on what the archaeological invisibility of certain deceased individuals may reveal. Adopting a diachronic perspective (from the Archaic period to Late Antiquity) and open to comparisons beyond the Aegean, the approach is intended to be interdisciplinary, bringing together funerary archaeology, epigraphy, legal history, and the social sciences.
