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The objective of this paper is to draw a balance sheet of different approaches to the interpretation of Roman expansion to the East between 200 and 30 B.C. It was done mainly through wars against Macedon, Syria and Egypt. In order to accomplish this a short analysis is made of three ways of explaining this: that of Arthur Eckstein, called realist, that of Paul Burton, constructivist, and that of William Harris, who emphazises Rome's agresiveness, unmatched in those times. The conclusion is that, although not all of them are pro-Roman, they are made with an American perspective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes a state of the matter on the scholarship about ethnic stereotypes in Ab urbe condita from the classic work by Walsh written in 1961 to nowadays. With this goal in mind, the paper is divided in five parts. The first part shows how the analyses of the subject matter became more complex as the ethnographic tradition with which Livy dealt, as well as the Roman identity and the notion itself of stereotype became an issue. In the second part, this article criticizes binary conceptions of otherness and suggests a wider gradation of it. The third part deals with some interesting observations made by Moore in 1989 that were later disregarded. In the fourth, it reviews Levene's suggestion based on ethnic identity studies that we should look for a non-Romancentric view within Livy's work. Finally, it studies the relevance of considering three kinds of contexts --the genre of the work, episodic and temporal frameworks-- while analyzing the ethnic stereotypes in Ab urbe condita. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The three short months - from December 1, 1950, to March 5, 1951 - that Kahn spent in the Italian capital, configured a moment of special intensity. His position as Resident Architect at the Academy of his country (RAAR) offered him great freedom, and he took advantage of it to travel through the Italian peninsula and the Mediterranean Sea. The impressions of these trips were collected in a remarkable series of drawings. Nevertheless, there is not yet a critical study about those drawings that relate the objects and the drawing techniques. This paper aims to contribute to that analysis through the study of three specific drawings that offer an approach to the American Master's view about the Classical Mediterranean Architecture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the influence of social representations of a destination city on the motivation and development of individual mobility patterns, using questionnaires with a projective technique and guided interviews. The participants were 60 skilled expatriates in two different European capital cities: Italians residing in Warsaw and Poles residing in Rome. The study demonstrates the relevance of place-identity for the meaning of place within urban culture, in the context where global and local issues are interwoven. It also features the transformation of social representations of the two cities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]