{"id":452,"date":"2021-11-02T11:41:43","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T15:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=452"},"modified":"2022-07-16T21:03:39","modified_gmt":"2022-07-17T01:03:39","slug":"excavations-in-northern-tuscanys-arno-river-valley","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/lecture\/excavations-in-northern-tuscanys-arno-river-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"How Old is the City of Florence?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"page68R_mcid10\" class=\"markedContent\"><strong><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Dr. McKenzie Lewis<\/span><\/strong><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\"><strong>,<\/strong> University of <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">W<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">aterloo<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-490 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/2018-11-15-image-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/2018-11-15-image-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/2018-11-15-image-440x311.jpg 440w, https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/2018-11-15-image-600x425.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/2018-11-15-image.jpg 736w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>It is commonly accepted that the city of Florence, the cultural heart and first capital of unified Italy, was founded by Julius Caesar in the 40s B.C.E. and settled as a colony shortly afterward by Rome\u2019s first emperor Augustus. This orthodox view of the city\u2019s foundation by a strong imperial Rome, drawn from a fourth century Latin text, took on ideological importance in the 1940s and 1950s. However, a much earlier date for the birth of Florence is now possible to be shown. In this provocative talk drawn from his Distinguished Dissertation Award research, Dr. McKenzie Lewis draws together a variety of evidence, ranging from ancient inscriptions and Latin manuscripts to rescue excavations in Florence\u2019s city center, to re-date Florence\u2019s foundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McKenzie Lewis, University of Waterloo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"spay_email":"","_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[57,20,26],"tribe_events_cat":[18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/452"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/452\/revisions\/491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneanstudies.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}