Name: CAMILA SARTORIO SFALSIN
Publication date: 18/07/2025
Examining board:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| ALEXANDRE CARNEIRO CERQUEIRA LIMA | Examinador Externo |
| BELCHIOR MONTEIRO LIMA NETO | Examinador Interno |
| GILVAN VENTURA DA SILVA | Presidente |
Summary: In the 2nd century AD, during the Principate, Pausanias, a Greek writer and traveler, produced Description of Greece, a work composed of ten books in which he describes some of the Greek cities he visited. By the time of his writing, Greek cities were already under Roman rule. The city of Corinth, the focus of this study, is addressed in Book II of his work. Destroyed by Rome in 146 BCE and refounded as a colonia in 44 BCE, Corinth becomes, in Pausanias’ narrative, an emblematic space of Hellenic tradition. In this context, the central objective of our research is to demonstrate that Pausanias sought to construct a representation of the city marked by an effort to reconstruct a Hellenic identity, emphasizing religious aspects, cults, and sacred landscapes. Methodologically, through Content Analysis, as proposed by Laurence Bardin, and documentary analysis following Andréia Cristina Lopes Frazão da Silva, we identify that the author highlights sacred elements as a strategy of symbolic resistance to Roman domination, revealing the persistence and reinvention of Greek tradition. To support our approach, we employ a set of key concepts during data analysis, including memory, city, representation, religious landscape, and identity. Thus, we argue that by emphasizing the sacred in his work, Pausanias contributed to the construction of an identity narrative that reconfigured Corinthian space amid the cultural dynamics between the Greek and Roman worlds.
