Restorations of Empire in Africa Ancient Rome and Modern Italy's African Colonies

Samuel Agbamu, Lecturer in Classics, University of Reading

Samuel Agbamu is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow and Lecturer in Classics at the University of Reading. He holds a PhD in Classics from King's College London, where he also studied for a PGCE in Classics. Prior to taking up his Early Career Fellowship, Sam taught at schools in London and Cambridge.

Introduction1. The Fall of Italia Risorta: Ethiopia, Roman Africa, and the Invention of Italy2. 'There, too, is Rome': The Roman Empire and the Conquest of Libya3. Modernising Antiquity: Decadence and Futurism in Roman Africa4. Technology and Power: Screening Imperialism in Giovanni Pastrone's Cabiria (1914)5. Redeeming Italia Irredenta: Fascism's March on Africa6. Italia tandem imperium habet suum: Fascist Italy's Roman Empire7. Carmine Gallone's Scipione l'Africano: Restaging Rome, Reincarnating Romanità 8. The Arco dei Fileni: The Realization of Romanità in Africa9. The Decline and Fall of the Fascist Empire10. Conclusion: Memories of Mare Nostrum