Notes on Contributors
Stéphane Benoist
is Professor of Roman History at the University of Lille, HALMA (History, Archaeology, Literature of Ancient Worlds – UMR 8164, Univ. Lille, CNRS, French Ministry of Culture). His main subjects of research are imperial power and its representations, political and social identities, time and space of Rome, imperial epigraphy, political philosophy and ideology (imperial discourse, Stoicism).
Sven Betjes
is Lecturer and Researcher of Ancient History at Radboud University Nijmegen. He is mainly interested in the cultural impact of power dynamics on the ancient Mediterranean, and has focussed on Roman imperial coinage and the ideological use of landscapes in particular.
Lukas de Blois
is Emeritus Professor of Ancient History at Radboud University Nijmegen. He published books and articles on the history of the Roman Empire in the third century CE, the history of the Late Roman Republic, Greek Sicily, and ancient historiography and biography (Sallust, Cassius Dio, Plutarch).
Francesco Bono
is Assistant Professor in Roman Law at the University of Parma. His main research interests lie in the imperial legislation in Late Antiquity and Justinian’s age. Secondary interests include European legal history and the history of historiography (Guizot, Gibbon, Bury). Since 2022, he has been researching the environmental protection in Roman society.
Christer Bruun
is Professor of Classics at the University of Toronto. He works on Roman social, political and cultural history, and has a particular interest in epigraphy, Roman water supply, and Roman Ostia.
Livia Capponi
is Associate Professor of Roman History at Pavia University, Italy. She is particularly interested in the history of Egypt and of the Jewish people in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, Roman historiography, and documentary papyrology. She has recently published Il ritorno della fenice. Intellettuali e potere nell’Egitto romano (Pisa 2017), Il mistero del tempio. La rivolta ebraica sotto Traiano (Roma 2018), Cleopatra (Roma-Bari 2021).
Margherita Carucci
was Research Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, Finland. She has published several articles on a number of aspects of the Graeco-Roman society, such as visual art, gender studies, and urbanism, with particular focus on social and cultural history. Her specific interests are on the ancient family and their daily experience in the Roman Empire, with particular focus on women.
Juan Manuel Cortés-Copete
is Professor of Ancient History at the University Pablo de Olavide, Seville. He has published monographs and articles on Second Sophistic as well as on the history of the Roman Empire, particularly on the emperor Hadrian, with special attention to his epigraphic and papyrological documents.
Elsemieke Daalder
is Professor of Legal History at the University of Münster. Her main research interest lies in Roman law and Roman legal culture, with a particular focus on the imperial administration of justice (encompassing both legislation and adjudication), administrative law (especially the Roman fiscus), and legal writing.
Sergio España-Chamorro
is Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità Sapienza Università di Roma and Membre associé of the Institut Ausonius, UMR 5607 CNRS-Université Bordeaux-Montaigne. His main fields of research are Roman roads and milestones, connectivity processes, landscape archaeology, and Latin epigraphy in Africa, Hispania and Italy.
Amber Gartrell
is Lecturer (Teaching) in Roman History at the Department of History, University College London. Her research interests focus upon the connections and interactions between religion, society, politics, and historical events between the mid-Republic and early Empire.
Florian Groll
is Researcher and Lecturer of Ancient History at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and the University of Stuttgart. His main interest lies in the representation of the Julian-Claudian dynasty. He is a specialist in the depiction of the dynasty’s military prowess in poems and architecture.
Nikolas Hächler
is ERC-Fellow in the project ‘The Just City’ (Zürich) since 2022. He has published on the history of the Roman senatorial order during the third century CE, Rome’s borders at the Rhine in Late Antiquity and impacts of the Imperium Romanum on Mediterranean landscapes.
Johannes Hahn
is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Münster. His research focuses on the social, cultural, and religious history of the Imperium Romanum in the imperial period and Late Antiquity.
Fernando Lozano
is Professor of Ancient History at Seville University. His research focuses on Roman religion during the Empire and, specifically, on the imperial cult as well as on reception studies.
Erika Manders
is Assistant Professor of Ancient History at Radboud University Nijmegen. She has published a monograph and articles on political culture and religion in the Roman Empire, with particular interest in coins and religious policies of Roman emperors.
Giorgos Mitropoulos
is Postdoctoral Researcher at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and is the primary investigator of the research project ‘Greek Matronae: Female Civic Presence and Self-Representation in Imperial Greece (1st–3rd c. CE)’ in the National Hellenic Research Foundation. His main research interests include the society of Roman Greece, and the formation and diffusion of the imperial ideology in the Hellenophone provinces.
Elena Muñiz Grijalvo
is Professor of Ancient History at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Seville), and director of a Master’s Degree in Religious Studies. She works on Greek religion in Roman times, and has recently focused on religious experience in community building in the Greek cities of the Empire.
Toni Ñaco del Hoyo
is ICREA Research Professor currently based at Girona University. His research interests lie in the history of Republican Rome, focusing in particular on taxation and war economy, military logistics, crisis management, international relations, and connectivity in the north-western Mediterranean.
Elena Torregaray Pagola
is Senior Lecturer and Researcher of Ancient History at the University of the Basque Country (Spain). Her main interests are centred on the study of diplomacy during the Republic and the Principate in Rome. She focuses mainly on the study of diplomatic agents, both men and women, as well as on the spaces used, and on oratory in diplomatic practice.