“Via illa nostra…militaris: A Brief Longue-Durée History of the Via Egnatia”
Jordan Pickett, University of Georgia
This paper offers a (brief!) longue-durée history of the Via Egnatia, synthesized from epigraphic, historical, and archaeological sources. Issues discussed include its predecessor Bronze and Iron Age routes, the Roman campaigns during the Macedonian Wars that explored edges and nodes of what became formalized as the Via Egnatia, its maintenance and utilization during the Empire and Late Antiquity, and its medieval afterlives.
Jordan Pickett
University of Georgia
Jordan Pickett is Associate Professor in the Department of Classics at the University of Georgia. He is an archaeologist specializing in questions of infrastructure, landscape, and environment in Late Antiquity. His research has appeared in Journal of Late Antiquity, Dumbarton Oaks Papers, Quaternary Science Review, and PLOS One. He co-directs excavations at the Byzantine Acropolis at Sardis.