Notes on Contributors
Hans Beck
is Professor of Ancient History and John MacNaughton Chair of Classics in the Department of History and Classical Studies at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He has published widely in the field of Roman Republican history, including a two-volume edition of the early Roman historians and, as co-editor, a book on the consulship in the republic (Consuls and Res Publica, Cambridge 2011).
Seth Bernard
is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Toronto. His research interests are broadly in the socioeconomic and urban history of Rome and Italy, and his current book project looks at how Rome’s labour supply met the demands of large-scale public construction during the Republican period.
Vera Binder
studied Latin, Greek, and Comparative Philology at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and University College Oxford; after graduating in Tübingen, she was junior research fellow at the chair of Comparative Linguistics in Tübingen and completed her doctorate in 1998 with a thesis on Latin loanwords in Greek. Since 2000, she has been employed at the Institut für Klassische Philologie of the Justus-Liebig-Univerität Gießen, first as research fellow in the Collaborative Research Centre “Cultures of Memory”, working on Aulus Gellius and on Cicero, and from 2006 onwards as tenured lecturer mainly teaching Latin and Greek grammar and translation from and into Greek and Latin.
Henriette van der Blom
is Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Birmingham, and has specialized in the fields of Roman republican history, politics and oratory. She is the author of Cicero’s Role Models: The Political Strategy of a Newcomer (Oxford University Press, 2010), and Oratory and Political Career in the Late Roman Republic (Cambridge University Press, 2016). She is also involved in a project to collect and translate the surviving fragments of all non-Ciceronian oratory from the republican period, The Fragments of the Roman Republican Orators (to be published by Oxford University Press).
Martine Chassignet
is Professor emerita of Latin Literature at the University of Strasbourg. She was Head of the Institute of Latin. Her main area of research is Roman historiography of the republican and early imperial periods. Apart from numerous journal contributions, she has published the fragments of Cato’s Origines (Belles Lettres,
Gabriele Cifani
is a researcher of classical archaeology at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”; he was previously visiting professor at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris (2016) and research fellow of the Department of Archaeology at Cambridge University (2005–2007), Freie Universität Berlin (2005), Columbia University (2004), and the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (2001). His main interests are the archaeology and the economic history of the archaic Mediterranean societies. Among his publications: Storia di una frontiera (Roma 2003); L’architettura Romana arcaica (Roma 2008). Co-editor with S. Stoddart of Landscape, Ethnicity and Identity (Oxford 2012).
Tim Cornell
is Professor Emeritus of Ancient History at the University of Manchester. His research interests include Roman historiography and the history and archaeology of early Rome and Italy. Major publications include The Beginnings of Rome (London 1995) and The Fragments of the Roman Historians, 3 vols. (Oxford 2013).
Penelope J. E. Davies
is Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin. Her work focuses on public architecture in Rome and its propagandistic functions. Author of Death and the Emperor: Roman Imperial Funerary Monuments from Augustus to Marcus Aurelius (Cambridge University Press, 2000) and Architecture and Politics in Republican Rome (Cambridge University Press, 2017), she also co-wrote Janson’s History of Art, Seventh and Eighth Editions (2006, 2011).
Massimiliano Di Fazio
gained a Laurea in Lettere Classiche (Università di Pavia), the Specialisation in Archaeology (Etruscology) at the Università di Roma “La Sapienza” and a PhD in Ancient History at the same University. He then gained a second PhD at the Università di Pavia, where he is Research Fellow and teaches the Archaeology of pre-Roman Italy. His fields of interest include: Social and Religious History of pre-Roman Italy, especially Etruscans, Samnites, Volscians, and other peoples of Central Italy; Romanization in Central Italy; Etruscan Cultural Memory; the survival of Etruscan Culture in Renaissance and Modern Italy.
Karl-J. Hölkeskamp
(Dr.phil. Bochum;
Duncan MacRae
is an Assistant Professor in the Classics Department at the University of California, Berkeley. He was educated at Trinity College Dublin and Harvard. He is the author of Legible Religion: Books, Gods and Rituals in Roman Culture (Harvard University Press, 2016), a study of Roman learned writing on their own religious tradition. More broadly, his work focuses on the religious and intellectual history of the Roman world, particularly on the interface between these two areas of ancient experience.
Dennis Pausch
is Professor of Latin at Dresden University. He wrote his PhD (Biographie und Bildungskultur: Personendarstellungen bei Plinius dem Jüngeren, Gellius und Sueton, 2004) and his second book (Livius und der Leser: Narrative Strukturen in Ab Urbe Condita, 2011), which was awarded the Bruno Snell Prize of the Mommsen-Gesellschaft in 2011, at Gießen University and during his research stay in Edinburgh as Feodoy Lynen Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. After that, he taught Latin at Regensburg University, before he took over the chair of Latin Literature at Dresden in 2014.
Francisco Pina Polo
is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Zaragoza (Spain). He has made research stays in Germany (Heidelberg, Münster, Dresden) and the United Kingdom (London, Oxford), and has been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study of Princeton in 2012 and 2014. He has published several books on oratory before the people as well as on politics and institutions during the Roman Republic: Las contiones civiles y militares en Roma (Zaragoza 1989); Contra arma verbis. Der Redner vor dem Volk in der späten römischen Republik (Heidelberg 1996); Rom, das bin ich: Marcus Tullius Cicero. Ein Leben (Stuttgart 2010); The Consul at Rome: The Civil Functions of the Consuls during the Roman Republic (Cambridge 2011). He has recently coedited with Martin Jehne the book Foreign clientelae in the Roman Empire: A Reconsideration (Stuttgart 2015).
John Rich
is Emeritus Professor of Roman History at the University of Nottingham. He is the author of Declaring War in the Roman Republic in the Period of Transmarine Expansion (1976), Cassius Dio, The Augustan Settlement (Roman History 53–55.9) (1990), and numerous papers on Roman history and historiography, and in particular on Roman war and imperialism and the reign of Augustus. He is a contributor and a member of the editorial committee for The Fragments of the Roman Historians (Oxford 2013).
Andrew M. Riggsby
is Lucy Shoe Meritt Professor in Classics at the University of Texas at Austin and is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome. He has published extensively on Roman law and in particular on the Republican criminal courts, as well as a monograph War in Words: Caesar in Gaul and Rome (Austin 2006).
Kaj Sandberg
is a researcher at Åbo Akademi University in Turku, Finland. He is a former Director (2006–2009) of the Institutum Romanum Finlandiae, the Finnish Institute in Rome, where he has also been the assistente scientifico (1995–1998) and a researcher in various capacities. He has also a long affiliation with the Finnish Institute in Athens, where he has been teaching every year since 2006. He has published mainly on the political system of Republican Rome, including the monograph Magistrates and Assemblies: A study of Legislative Practice in Republican Rome (Rome 2001), but his research interests also include Roman historiography, the topography of the city of Rome and the Late Empire.
Marianna Scapini
former post-doc at the University of Verona and visiting scholar at the University Pompeu Fabra of Barcelona, is currently a teaching assistant at the University of Verona. She has investigated the relationship between ancient art and ancient Greek and Roman cults and religious propaganda. Her research work has led to the publication of a number of papers, book chapters and two books: Temi greci e citazioni erodotee nelle storie di Roma arcaica (Nordhausen 2011) and Le stanze di Dioniso. Contenuti rituali e committenti delle scene dionisiache domestiche tra Roma e Pompei (Madrid 2016).
Christopher Smith
is Professor of Ancient History at the University of St Andrews and was from 2009–17 Director of the British School at Rome. He is a contributor and a member of the editorial committee for The Fragments of the Roman Historians (Oxford 2013).