The cultural identity of a community is not a static entity, but fluctuating and situational. As such cultural identity can be studied and perceived in an evenemential continuum as also on the changing spatial frames where it is conceived and where it is manifested. The Roman Forum is such a case of a special frame for the study and comprehension in historical terms of such a process: in a cross-cultural perspective, there are rare examples of urban spaces that constitute such a privileged observatory for the understanding of the continuously evolving identities of a civilization in the long historical term.
In this contribution we are going to analyse the interrelationships between the cultural identity of Roman community and the “material” structuration and division of the Roman Forum, both ephemeral and permanent, in a very peculiar period of the Roman History – between Late Republican and Augustan Age.
| Type : | : | Résumé |
| Thématiques | : | Session 9 . Ordonner l'espace : Stratégies d'établissement de frontières sur les fora et les agorai |
| Mots-Clés | : | Roman Forum ; cultural identity ; ephemeral and permanent boundaries |
| PDF version | : |  PDF version |
