The story of Rome and its people draws on ancient legends passed down from generation to generation. Circulating throughout the Mediterranean world in the centuries after Rome's legendary founding, they were later enshrined in the words of the poets and historians of the great Augustan age and have been studied ever since.
The story of Rome and its people draws on ancient legends passed down from generation to generation. Circulating throughout the Mediterranean world in the centuries after Romeβs legendary founding, they were later enshrined in the words of the poets and historians of the great Augustan age and have been studied ever since.
Before it was a mighty empire, Rome was born as a Latin settlement on the Palatine Hill and from the beginning showed an inclination to integrating different peoples through a federation. The early legends, born out in fact and in Romeβs later history, offered an element of mixed ethnic identity. As Rome expanded its rule across Italy and over the world, adherence to Roman identity and values stood as the main qualifications for βbecoming Romanβ and enjoying all the privileges of Romeβs civilization. As migrant populations traverse todayβs world, assimilation remains a crucial issue of debate in managing borders and defining societies.
He is full professor of Roman private law in the Department of Law of the University of Turin and has also taught Roman Public Law at the European University of Rome of the Legionaries of Christ . In 1992, with the book Studies on the magister populi. From the military auxiliaries of the rex to the first republican magistrates (Milan, GiuffrοΏ½, 1989), he won the International Prize for the history of political and legal institutions offered by the President of the Constitutional Court . He is scientific director of the legal journal European Legal Studies . He was dean of the law area of ββthe European University of Rome . In October 2018 he was appointed Head of the Department for Higher Education and Research at the MIUR.
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