Emilio Zucchetti

Unrest in the Roman Republic and the Early Principate: Discordia and discordiae between Repression, Accommodation and Consensus-Building

© Emilio Zucchetti

My PhD research is a study of political and social unrest in the Late Roman Republic and Early Principate through the concept of discord (Discordia). It explores it as a political notion in ancient Rome, its role in elite and non-elite contexts, looking to reconstruct the political discourses around it. The analysis of social and political unrest is informed by theoretical insights drawn from ongoing debates on popular power, multitudes, uprisings and inequality, within a post-Marxist perspective, in order to enable a fresh appreciation of the political setup of the Roman Republic.

The project is fully funded by the Northern Bridge Doctoral Training Partnership (AHRC Full Scholarship 2016-2019)

Academic qualifications

Master's Degree (Laurea Magistrale) in Philology, Literatures and History of the Ancient World (Università degli Studi di Roma 1, Sapienza) 110 cum laude/110

Bachelor's Degree (Laurea Triennale) in Classics (Università degli Studi di Torino) 110 cum laude/110

Conference Papers

• The Construction of political identity between deities: Furiae and discordia in the narration of civil conflict in Rome (Postgraduate Conference "Conflict: Causes, Chaos and Resolutions" in Leeds University, 6^th 2014)
• Clashes and riots in ancient Rome: was the late Republic an age of Movements? (Postgraduate Forum Conference “Movement”, Newcastle University, 19^th  May 2017)
• The Chimera of History: Post-modern despair on Ancient History (1st Year PGR Conference of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 15^th June 2017)
• Barricades in the Roman Forum: struggles, riots and space in the Late Roman Republic (Landscapes of Power: an Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Symposium on Power and Place, Nottingham, 19^th June 2017)
• The narrative power of the Declaratio Hostis Publici. A reassessment of political communication in the year 88 BCE (East Anglia University, 2017 Rhetoric in Society Conference "Rhetorics of Unity and Division”, 3^rd -5^th  July 2017)
• The narrative power of the Declaratio Hostis Publici. A reassessment of political communication in the year 88 BCE (London, Birkbeck College, Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Ancient History, AMPAH 2018, 17^th March 2018)
• What is civil about civil war? What is 'civil' about civil war? Notes on 'the people' in the Roman civil wars (Belfast, Queen’s University, 30^th November 2018)
• Reconsidering popular subjectivity in Rome: the post-Marxist categories of "the people" and "multitude" (Durham, Durham University, Populusque, 6^th-7^th December 2018)

Conference organization:

• International Conference “Antonio Gramsci and the Ancient World”, Newcastle University (8^th – 9^th December 2017)

Edited volume:

• Borrello, S./Ciucciové, R./Di Iorio, L./Zucchetti, E., eds., Antonio Gramsci and the Ancient World, Routledge (accepted for publication).