Lecture addresses ‘Romans and Natives in Ancient Sardinia’

January 31, 2007

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — “Romans and Natives in Ancient Sardinia” is the title of a lecture by Stephen Dyson, a professor at the State University of New York-Buffalo, at 8 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 6, in the Keene Faculty Center, Dauer Hall. The talk is sponsored by the Gainesville Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Department of Classics and School of Art and Art History at the University of Florida.

Sardinia, the second-largest island in the Mediterranean, has a rich, if little-known archaeological record. Dyson’s talk will focus on the relations between the indigenous peoples and the Roman invaders from the third century B.C. onward. Dyson will examine the ways in which Rome transformed the native culture but also ways in which the natives resisted Rome, as an example of the larger question related to the successes and failures of the Roman Empire.