Daniele Miano

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Academic interests

I am interested in the history and historiography of early Rome and Italy. I have worked particularly in two areas of research.

The first in the representation and conceptualization of the past in the Roman world and beyond. My first book, Monimenta (Rome 2011) concerns the erection of public monuments in mid-republican Rome, and how these monuments are tightly interconnected to the creation of a shared Roman past through the intervention of conflicting agendas of several social and aristocratic groups. I am also interested in Roman historiography, and I published the book Myth and History in the Historiography of Early Rome (2023), co-edited with Tim Cornell and Nicolas Meunier, which attempted to reconsider the complex relationship between different epistemic categories within ancient historiography. I am also a contributor for the second edition of the Brill’s New Jacoby, for which I have written articles and commentaries on Greek and Roman fragmentary historians. Finally, I am interested in how historians before modernity have attempted to write ‘total’ histories encompassing the whole world, and I am one of the general editors of the forthcoming Handbook of Universal History Writing for Oxford University Press.

I am not only interested in ancient historiography, but also in how the reading of ancient historians has shaped the history of knowledge in medieval and early modern Europe. I co-edited with Heather Ellis a special issue of the Intellectual History Review with the title Ancient and Modern Knowledges (2022), which also included two articles written by myself on the reception of Livy and Polybius. Current plans include a monograph that reconsiders how the reading of these texts have prompted at times surprising practices and eccentric theories of modernity, that call attention to the dangers of attributing a concrete value to “modernity” in the history of knowledge.

My other area of research is the history of ancient gods and goddesses, especially in Rome and Italy. This was the topic of my second book, the monograph Fortuna: Deity and Concept in Archaic and Republican Italy (2018), and of the book Gods and Goddesses in Ancient Italy (2019), co-edited with Ed Bispham. I am particularly interested in finding new ways in which we can think of the multiplicity of ancient gods and goddesses, and I firmly believe that historical semantics offer the potential to understand how ancient deities were approached. In the past, I have focused in particular on deities bearing the names of concepts, such as Fortuna, Victoria, Ops, and Salus, but I have started experimenting with deities bearing independent names too, writing essays on Fufluns and Liber in Etruria and Latium, and on the death deity Libitina. Expanding an approach based on historical semantics to other types of deities is part of my current and future research plans, and I am particularly interested in doing so for a series of case studies centred around ancient Campania.

Courses taught

  • HIS1200 Special subject – Alexander the Great and the Making of a New World https://www.uio.no/studier/emner/hf/iakh/HIS1200/
  • HIS2118 – Rome and the Rise of Its Empire (509–31 BCE) https://www.uio.no/studier/emner/hf/iakh/HIS2118/index.html
  • HIS2112 - Imperium Romanum https://www.uio.no/studier/emner/hf/iakh/HIS2112/index.html
  • HIS4213 - Greek and Roman Gods and Goddesses https://www.uio.no/studier/emner/hf/iakh/HIS4213/index.html
  • HIS4215 - Roma caput mundi https://www.uio.no/studier/emner/hf/iakh/HIS4215/index.html

Background

I am Professor of Ancient History at the University of Oslo (Associate Professor 2020-2022). Before coming to UiO, I held teaching and research positions in Erfurt, Sheffield, Dublin and Oxford. I studied for my undergraduate degree at the ‘Sapienza’ University of Rome, and I did postgraduate studies in Manchester, Paris and Pisa, obtaining my doctorate from the Scuola Normale Superiore (2013), where my supervisors were Carmine Ampolo and Tim Cornell.

 

Tags: Ancient History, Historiography, History of Religions, History of Concepts

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  • Miano, Daniele (2024). Instability and Change, 474-270 BCE. In Maiuro, Marco & Botsford Johnson, Jane (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Pre-Roman Italy. Oxford University Press. ISSN 9780199987894. p. 485–506. Full text in Research Archive
  • Miano, Daniele (2023). Rufus (BNJ2 826). Jacoby Online. Brill's New Jacoby. ISSN 1873-5363. Second Edition, Part II. doi: 10.1163./1873-5363_bnj2_a826. Full text in Research Archive
  • Miano, Daniele (2023). The Historiography of Myth in Historiography. In Miano, Daniele; Cornell, Tim & Meunier, Nicolas (Ed.), Myth and History in the Historiography of Early Rome. Brill Academic Publishers. ISSN 9789004534490. p. 1–12. doi: 10.1163/9789004534506_002. Full text in Research Archive
  • Miano, Daniele (2023). Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Theopompus, and the Historical Marvel:The Rhetoric of Myth and the Myth of Rhetoric. In Miano, Daniele; Cornell, Tim & Meunier, Nicolas (Ed.), Myth and History in the Historiography of Early Rome. Brill Academic Publishers. ISSN 9789004534490. p. 34–63. doi: 10.1163/9789004534506_004. Full text in Research Archive
  • Miano, Daniele (2022). Fortuna, Games, and the Boundaries of the Divine: from Cicero to Boethius. Kernos: Revue internationale et pluridisciplinaire de religion grecque antique. ISSN 0776-3824. 35, p. 163–183. doi: 10.4000/kernos.4225. Full text in Research Archive
  • Miano, Daniele & Thornton, John (2022). Bossuet and Hegel as readers of Polybius: Reflections on the historiography of modernity and the end of Fortuna. Intellectual History Review. ISSN 1749-6977. 32(3), p. 429–451. doi: 10.1080/17496977.2022.2097407. Full text in Research Archive
  • Miano, Daniele (2022). The two Tarquins from Livy to Lorenzo Valla: history, rhetoric and embodiment. Intellectual History Review. ISSN 1749-6977. 32(3), p. 359–386. doi: 10.1080/17496977.2022.2096770. Full text in Research Archive
  • Miano, Daniele (2022). Love, death, and funerals in ancient Rome: on the goddess Libitina. Mortality. ISSN 1357-6275. 27(2), p. 159–170. doi: 10.1080/13576275.2022.2066290. Full text in Research Archive
  • Miano, Daniele (2020). The Explosion of Dionysius of Halicarnassus: Ghosts of Rhetoric from the Artes Historicae to Postmodernist Historiography. Histos. The Online Journal of Ancient Historiography. 14, p. clxxv –clxxxvi. Full text in Research Archive
  • Elliott, Jackie & Miano, Daniele (2020). Cicero, Ennius and the Inscription for the Statue of Cato in Plutarch's Cato Maior. Latomus: Revue et collection d'études latines. ISSN 0023-8856. 79(3), p. 625–646. doi: 10.2143/LAT.79.3.3288811.
  • Miano, Daniele (2020). From Kyme to Cumae. Cumaean (hi)stories of continuity and eradication. In Bianchi, Edoardo & Pelloso, Carlo (Ed.), Roma e l'Italia tirrenica. Magistrature e ordinamenti istituzionali nei secoli V e IV a.C.. Edizioni dell'Orso. ISSN 9788836130535. p. 251–274.
  • Miano, Daniele (2019). Liber, Fufluns, and the others: rethinking Dionysus in Italy between the fifth and the third centuries BCE. In Mac Góráin, Fiachra (Eds.), Dionysus and Rome: Religion and Literature. Walter de Gruyter (De Gruyter). ISSN 9783110671568. p. 111–132.
  • Miano, Daniele (2019). From Saviours to Salvation: Salus in Republican Italy, Gods and Goddesses in Ancient Italy. Routledge. ISSN 9781138697553. p. 137–157.
  • Miano, Daniele (2019). Divinités conceptuelles et pouvoir dans le polythéisme romain. Pallas: revue d'études antiques. ISSN 0031-0387. 111, p. 95-–111.
  • Miano, Daniele (2017). Fortuna Primigenia e la salvezza. Q. Lutatius Cerco e le sortes. In Santi, Claudia & Pisano, Carmine (Ed.), Crisi e identità religiosa. Classicismo e tardo antico. Lithos. ISSN 9788899581404. p. 109–126.
  • Miano, Daniele (2016). How Roman Was Victory? The goddess Victoria in Republican Italy. In Santi, Claudia; Casadio, Giovanni & Mastrocinque, Attilio (Ed.), APEX: Studi storico-religiosi in onore di Enrico Montanari. Edizioni Quasar. ISSN 9788871407425. p. 109–124.
  • Miano, Daniele (2015). Spreading Virtues in Republican Italy. In Roselaar, Saskia (Eds.), Processes of Cultural Change and Integration in the Roman World. Brill Academic Publishers. ISSN 9789004294547. p. 253–277.
  • Miano, Daniele (2015). The Goddess Ops in Archaic Rome. Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (BICS). ISSN 0076-0730. 58(1), p. 98–127.
  • Miano, Daniele (2013). Tychai of Timoleon and Servius Tullius. A hypothesis on the sources. Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. Classe di Lettere e Filosofia. ISSN 0392-095X. 4(2), p. 365–378.
  • Miano, Daniele (2012). Moneta: Sacred Memory in Mid-Republican Rome. In Bommas, Martin; Roy, Phobe & Harrisson, Juliette (Ed.), Memory and urban religion in the ancient world. Bloomsbury Academic. ISSN 9781472530530. p. 89–109.
  • Miano, Daniele (2009). Loci memoriae. Spazio e memoria nella Roma repubblicana. Mediterraneo Antico: Economie Società Culture. ISSN 1127-6061. p. 361–380.

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  • Miano, Daniele; Cornell, Tim & Meunier, Nicolas (2023). Myth and History in the Historiography of Early Rome. Brill Academic Publishers. ISBN 9789004534490. 258 p.
  • Miano, Daniele (2021). La Dea Fortuna. Una divinità e i suoi significati nella Roma repubblicana e nell’Italia antica. Carocci editore. ISBN 9788829004195. 216 p.
  • Miano, Daniele & Bispham, Edward (2019). Gods and Goddesses in Ancient Italy. Routledge. ISBN 9781138697553.
  • Miano, Daniele (2018). Fortuna: Deity and Concept in Archaic and Republican Italy. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198786566.
  • Miano, Daniele (2011). Monimenta. Aspetti storico-culturali della memoria nella Roma medio-repubblicana. Bulzoni Editore. ISBN 9788878705982.

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