Open Access Journal: Acta ad archaeologiam et artium historiam pertinentia

 [First posted in AWOL 1 March 2020, updated 10 August 2025]

Acta ad archaeologiam et artium historiam pertinentia
ISSN: 2611-3686 

Acta ad archaeologiam et artium historiam pertinentia (ACTA) is published by the Norwegian Institute in Rome in association with Scienze e Lettere, Rome. ACTA publishes articles relevant to Mediterranean archaeology and art history within the broader interdisciplinary mission statement of the Institute. ACTA is an international, open access journal that simultaneosly publishes a paper and an electronic version.

Current Issue

Vol. 37 No. 24 N.S. (2023)

Siri Sande
Magistrae Dilectae

Ediderunt
Kristin B. Aavitsland, Adam Lindhagen,
Marina Prusac Lindhagen, Sissel Undheim

On the cover: portrait of Livia, marble head and alabastro verdognolo bust. Rome,
Musei Capitolini inv. 144. Photograph: INTERFOTO/Alamy Stock Photo.

E-ISSN (online version) 2611-3686

Published: 2025-04-29

Preface

• Preface

  Marina Prusac-Lindhagen, Sissel Undheim, Adam Lindhagen, Kristin B. Aavitsland

• Aristotelian Toys in the Parva Naturalia

  Mette Heuch Berg

  1-14

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• The Temple of the Deified Matidia among the porticoes of the Campus Martius

  Eve D'Ambra

  15-34

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• On the road with Siri Sande: excavating Petropigi Castle, a Late Byzantine statio on the via Egnatia in Eastern Macedonia

  Øystein Ekroll

  35-52

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• Mosse on Winckelmann and masculinity

  Lasse Hodne

  53-68

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• Creative combination and recombination in Roman and Pseudo-Roman portraits

  Bente Kiilerich

  69-83

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• The Liceo area - a forgotten but essential part of Hadrian's villa

  Adam Lindhagen

  85-100

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• Ancient Selinus: A troublesome neighbour, ever bigger temples, and a couple with problems of identity

  Erik Østby

  101-128

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• Empress Valeria Messalina: The mother of a legitimate heir to the Roman throne and damnatio memoriae

  Marina Prusac-Lindhagen

  129-153

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• Sophonisba and the norm in Petrarch's Africa

  Vibeke Roggen

  155-173

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• The Romans who didn't build: Crassus, Cicero, and Marcus Aurelius' architectural legacy, or lack thereof

  Christopher Siwicki

  175-197

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• Less about the number nine and more about female figures: a new approach to the ancient lyric "canon"

  Thea Thorsen

  199-219

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• Fama and visual propaganda: the Roman attitude towards the spreading of news

  Gunhild Vidén

  221-225

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