Seafaring and Mobility in the Late Antique Mediterranean

Antti Lampinen is Docent in Classical Philology at the University of Turku, Finland, and Docent in Ancient Languages and Culture at the University of Helsinki, Finland. From 2018 to 2023, he worked as the Assistant Director at the Finnish Institute at Athens. Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz is a Maria Zambrano Fellow at the University of the Basque Country, Spain.

• AcknowledgementsNote on TranslationsList of AbbreviationsList of IllustrationsIntroduction: Approaches to the Later Imperial Mediterranean as an Environment Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz (Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, Finland) and Antti Lampinen (Finnish Institute at Athens, Greece)Part I: Imagination and Domination: The Mediterranean as a Conceptual Environment1. Knights, Kings, and Dragons: The Symbolic Conquest of the Mediterranean Sea in Late Antiquity and its Historical BackgroundJoanna Töyräänvuori (University of Helsinki, Finland)2. Migrating Mosaics: Transforming Images of Oceanus and Marine Environments from the Imperial Period to Late AntiquityAlexandra Grigorieva (University of Helsinki, Finland)3. Mediterranean as a Contested Environment in Late AntiquityAntti Lampinen (Finnish Institute at Athens, Greece)Part II: A Networked Environment4. Connecting People in the Mediterranean: Mobility and Migration in Ostia and Portus Arja Karivieri (Institutum Romanum Finlandiae, Finland)5. ... d?? ??s?? p??e?? ... Taking the Island Route: Trade and exchange along the coast of Southern Naxos Hallvard Indjerd (British School at Athens, Greece)6. ‘Stepping across thresholds”: Islands as Resilient Spaces of Connectivity in the Passage from Late Antiquity to the early Middle Ages (c. 500-ca. 700)Luca Zavagno (Bilkent University, Turkey) and Zeynep Olgun (Koç University, Turkey)Part III: Braving the Sea in the Later Empire7. ‘Washed by the Waves’. Fighting against Shipwrecking in the Later Roman EmpireEmilia Mataix Ferrándiz (Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, Finland)8. Upwind Sailing Capabilities of Square-Rigged Ships in Late Antiquity and the Ramifications for Trade NetworksDoug Forsyth (University of St Andrews, UK)9. On the Byzantine Tradition of D. 14.2.9 (Maec. ex lege Rhodia): A Note concerning the Emperor as Ruler on the SeaValerio Massimo Minale (Bocconi University, Spain)NotesBibliographyIndex

Seafaring and Mobility in the Late Antique Mediterranean has much to offer historians and archaeologists. It is a collection of fresh and innovative studies of seafaring, mobility and connectivity in the late antique Mediterranean world.