Note on Contributors
Edoardo Bianchi
is Lecturer in Ancient Greek History at the University of Verona (Italy). His main area of interest is the history of the Western Greek poleis in the Late Archaic and Classical period, particularly the relations between the Western Greeks, the Etruscans and the Romans in the sixth–fourth centuries BCE. Among his recent publications is the monograph Poros e porthmos. Lo Stretto al tempo di Anassilao (2020), which focuses on the cities of Rhegion and Zankle at the time of the tyrant Anaxilas.
Tim Cornell
is Professor Emeritus of Ancient History at the University of Manchester and recently (2018–22) President of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies. He is the General Editor of The Fragments of the Roman Historians (2013), and author of numerous works on Roman history and historiography.
Roman M. Frolov
(Ph.D. 2013, Lomonosov Moscow State University) is Lecturer in Ancient History at P.G. Demidov Yaroslavl State University, Russia. He is currently working on a research project entitled Between privati and magistratus: Holders of “Intermediate” Statuses in Roman Republican Politics. He has published a series of papers on this subject, including articles on magistrates-elect, the suspension of magistrates from their functions, and the activities of promagistrates in the sphere domi.
Chantal Gabrielli
holds a PhD in History and Civilizations of the Ancient World and another in Ancient Political and Cultural History of Classical Antiquity. She is temporary lecturer in Latin Epigraphy at the School in Archaeological Heritage of the University of Florence. She has published copiously on economic and social history of the Roman world, with particular attention to political conflicts in the late republic. Her most recent monograph is Res publica servanda est. La svolta dei Gracchi tra prassi politica e violenza nella riflessione storiografica (2022).
Amber Gartrell
is an Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in Roman History in the Department of History at University College London. Her research focuses upon the interactions between ancient religion, society, and politics from the Mid Republic into the Early Empire. Her first book The Cult of Castor and Pollux: Myth, Ritual and Society was published in 2021 by Cambridge University Press. Her current research project explores the roles and responsibilities of the Roman gods, considering how the relationships and interactions between gods and mortals manifested, developed, and were represented.
Nicolas L.J. Meunier
is the author of a commented translation of Ennius’ Annales (PUL – Presses universitaires de Louvain) and of a study on Livy’s narrative elaboration of the struggle of the orders (Belles Lettres). He also published several papers on the historiography of Early Rome and he is currently Assistant professor of Latin Language and Ancient History at the University of Louvain (UCLouvain).
Daniele Miano
is Associate Professor of Ancient History at the University of Oslo. He received his doctorate from the Scuola Normale Superiore at Pisa, and he held teaching positions and research fellowships in Oxford, Dublin, Sheffield and Erfurt. He has worked on polytheism in ancient Italy, on memorial practices in republican Rome, and on ancient and modern historiography. His most recent monograph is Fortuna: Deity and Concept in Archaic and Republican Italy (2018).
Marine Miquel
teaches Latin at the University of Tours. She is a specialist in Latin historiography, who studies in particular the poetic forms and meanings of spaces and of the characters who evolve in them, as they are constructed by Latin texts, by the public during their reception, and then by other texts through their rewriting. These works intend to reflect on the relations between society and its environment, whether it is the space of the city and the real or ideal space of the Empire. She is also a member of the network Ancient Rome Ecology (Ecologie Rome Antique) hosted by the University of Tours and the University of Florence.
Jaclyn Neel
is Assistant Professor of Greek and Roman Studies in the College of Humanities at Carleton University. Her research interests include Roman intellectual history, mythography, and modern interpretations of these myths. She has published Early Rome: Myth and Society (2017) and Legendary Rivals: Collegiality and Ambition in the Tales of Early Rome (2014), as well as several articles spanning Etruscan myth, Tarpeia, and Cicero.
Stephen Oakley
was educated at Bradfield College in Berkshire and at Queens’ College, Cambridge, where he studied for his B.A. and his Ph.D. He is Kennedy Professor of Latin and Fellow of Emmanuel College in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of the British Academy; he taught previously at the University of Reading. His publications include The Hill-forts of the Samnites (1994), A Commentary on Livy, books VI–X (1997–2005), and Studies in the Transmission of Latin Texts (volume i, 2020; volume ii, 2023). He was a contributor to The Fragments of the Roman Historians (2013).