Demographics in the Classical Period of Serbia

Pre-requisites: None

Course objectives: To compare the evidence given by classical historians, historical data and the archaeological heritage (movable objects, necropoli, temples…) students will gain an insight into the complex demographic structure of the provinces now situated in present day Serbia.

Course description: Autochthonous inhabitants (Daco-Misians, Celts, Thracians) differentiated by the form of their graves, tombstones, anthroponomy, cults, type of clothing and jewelry. Emigrants from Syria (anthroponomy, burial practice, led sarcophagi, cult, military units, direct settlers from Palmira – Tribiscum after the loss of Dacia, art from Palmira in Serbia, tombs); immigrants from provinces in Asia Minor (Bithynia, Phrygia, Cilicia) presence of people of oriental origin on stone sarcophagi within the Sirmium circle; testimony of Egyptian emigrants, migrations from western part of the empire, movement of Sarmatian enclaves before and during Constantine the Great; emigrants from the lower Danube region (problems associated with the discovery of the Cernjahov - Sintana di Mureš culture); evidence of emigrants from the Strimon valley on tombstones and monuments dedicated to the Bendida cult.

Learning Outcomes: Essay, oral examination

Literature/Reading:

• F. Papazoglu, Srednjobalkanska plemena u predrimsko doba, Sarajevo 1969.
• S. Ferjančić, Naseljavanje legijskih veterana u balkanskim provincijama I- III. vek n.e., Beograd 2002.
• A.Mócsy, Gesellschaft und Romanisation in der römischen Provinz Moesia Superior, Budapest 1970.
• A.Mócsy, Pannonia and Upper Moesia (The Provinces of the Roman Empire). London and Boston, I974.
• B.Pferdehirt, Die Rolle des Militärs für den sozialen Aufstieg in der römischen Kaiserzeit, Mainz 2002.