Antonio Gramsci and the Ancient World

Emilio Zucchetti is Germanicus Scholar of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies (London, UK) and Teaching Assistant at Newcastle University, UK. Anna Maria Cimino is a PhD student in Classics at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy.

Introduction: The Reception of Gramsci’s Thought in Historical and Classical Studies (Emilio Zucchetti); 1. Negotiating Hegemony in Early Greek Poetry (Laura Swift); 2. Upside-down Hegemony? Ideology and Power in Ancient Athens (Mirko Canevaro); 3. Gramsci and Ancient Philosophy: Prelude to a Study (Phillip Sidney Horky); 4. A Gramscian Approach to Ancient Slavery (Kostas Vlassopoulos); 5. The Etruscan Question. An Academic Controversy in the Prison Notebooks (Massimiliano Di Fazio); 6. Polybios and the Rise of Rome. Gramscian Hegemony, Intellectuals and Passive Revolution (Emma Nicholson); 7. Antonio Gramsci Between Ancient and Modern Imperialism (Michele Bellomo); 8. Plebeian Tribunes and Cosmopolitan Intellectuals: Gramsci’s Approach to the Late Roman Republic (Mattia Balbo); 9. Between Caesarism and Cosmopolitanism: Julius Caesar as an Historical Problem in Gramsci (Federico Santangelo); 10. Gramsci and the Roman Cultural Revolution (Christopher Smith); 11. Caesarism as Stasis from Gramsci to Lucan: an "Equilibrium with Catastrophic Prospects" (Elena Giusti); 12. Hegemony in the Roman Principate: Perceptions of Power in Gramsci, Tacitus and Luke (Jeremy Paterson); 13. Gramsci’s View of Late Antiquity: between longue durée and Discontinuity (Dario Nappo); 14. Cultural Hegemonies, ‘NIE-orthodoxy’, and Social Development Models: Classicists’ ‘Organic’ Approaches to Economic History in the Early XXI Century (Cristiano Viglietti); Afterthoughts; 1. The Author as Intellectual? Hints and Thoughts for a Gramscian ‘Re-reading’ of the Ancient Literatures (Anna Maria Cimino); 2. Hegemony, Coercion and Consensus: A Gramscian Approach to Greek Cultural and Political History (Alberto Esu); 3. Hegemony, Ideology, and Ancient History. Notes towards a Development of an Intersectional Framework (Emilio Zucchetti)