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Giusto Traina, Professor of Roman history in the Université Paris-Sorbonne and Senior Fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France
"Framing a marginal country in the Classical oikoumene: the case of Armenia in Strabo's Geography"
Monday, April 27, 4:00 p.m. ~~ 6 Divinity Avenue, room 201
Giusto Traina (born Palermo, Italy, 1959) is Professor of Roman history in the Université Paris-Sorbonne and Senior Fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France. He formerly taught in Lecce, Rouen and Louvain-la-Neuve. Among his recent publications: 428 AD: An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire, with a preface by Averil Cameron, Princeton 2009; Carrhes, 9 juin 53 av. J.-C. Anatomie d’une bataille, Paris 2011; New Italian edition of Ronald Syme, The Roman Revolution, Torino 2014. A specialist on the political and military relations between Rome and the East, he is currently working on a comprehensive history of the kingdom of Greater Armenia.
We hope to see you there!
Sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations,
and the Mashtots Chair in Armenian Studies.