Orientals in Late Antique Italy: Some Observations

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Some evidence points at the presence of Orientals in late Roman Italy: traders (labelled “Syrians”), petty sellers (the pantapolae Nov. Val. 5), but also students, professors such as Ammianus Marcellinus, or pilgrims. Although being citizens, nonetheless they were considered foreign individuals, subject to special restrictions. The actual strangers made a different case, especially Persians. situation individuals was quite different. Chauvinistic attitudes are widely attested, and worsened critical periods, for example after Adrianople. This may explain laws early 397 June 399, promulgated during Stilicho’s regency, which prohibited wearing trousers (bracae) some fashionable boots called tzangae. Of course, protégés imperial court had right enter Italy, it case Sassanian prince Hormisdas, who accompanied Constantius II his visit Rome 357.

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عنوان ژورنال: Electrum

سال: 2022

ISSN: ['1897-3426', '2084-3909']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/20800909el.22.016.15786