Michael C. Alexander is Professor in the Department of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His research has focused on the history of the late Roman Republic, particularly the criminal trials of the period. He is the author of Trials in the Late Roman Republic, 149 bc to 50 BC (1990) and The Case for the Prosecution in the Ciceronian Era (2002).
William W. Batstone is currently Associate Professor of Classics at the Ohio State University. His research interests are primarily in the literature of the Republic and the ways in which modern theoretical perspectives can help us to understand how it bears value and meaning for us. He is the organizer of the Three Year Colloquium of the APA, ‘‘Interrogating Theory - Critiquing Practice.’’ His many publications include forthcoming articles on ‘‘The Point of Reception Theory’’ (in R. Thomas and C. Martindale (eds.), The Uses of Reception) and ‘‘Plautine Farce, Plautine Freedom: An Essay on the Value of
Metatheatre’’ (in his Defining Gender and Genre in Latin Literature).
Edward Bispham teaches Ancient History at Brasenose and St. Anne’s Colleges, Oxford. He has published on Roman legislation, colonization, politics, and religion. His research interests lie in the history and archaeology of Italy, and his current projects include a (multiauthor) revision ofHermann Peter’s His-toricorum Romanorum Reliquiae and a history of the late Republic.
Anthony Corbeill is Professor of Classics at the University of Kansas and author of two books, Controlling Laughter: Political Humor in the Late Roman Republic (1996) and Nature Embodied: Gesture in Ancient Rome (2004). His current research explores the kinds of distinctions that the Romans made between the categories of sex and gender, and includes treatment of grammatical gender, bisexual gods, and hermaphrodites.
Jean-Michel David is Professor of Roman History at the University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne. His research focuses on the social, political, and cultural history of the Roman Republic. His works include Le Patronat judiciaire au dernier si'cle de la Re'publique romaine
(1992) , La Romanisation de I’ltalie (1994) (translated as The Roman Conquest of Italy, 1997), and La Republique romaine (2000).
Luuk de Ligt is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Leiden. His research interests include the social and economic history, demography, legal history, and epigraphy of the Roman Republic and Empire. He is author of Fairs and Markets in the Roman Empire
(1993) and numerous articles, most recently ‘‘Poverty and Demography: The Case of the Gracchan Land Reforms,’’ Mnemosyne 57 (2004): 725-57. He is also the editor (along with E. A. Hemel-rijk and H. W. Singor) of Roman Rule and Civic Life: Local and Regional Perspectives (2004).
Elizabeth Deniaux is Professor of Roman History at the University of Paris X Nan-terre. Her research focuses on Roman society and political life in the late Republic. She published an introduction to the French edition of Lily Ross Taylor, Party Politics in the Age of Caesar (1977) and compiled a bibliographic addendum for its republication in 2001. She is the author of Clienteles et pouvoir a l’epoque de Ciceron (1993), Rome, de la cite-Etat d l’Empire, institutions et vie politique (2001), and editor of Rome, pouvoir des images, images du pouvoir (2000). She is a member of the Franco-Albanian mission and the organizer of the colloquium, ‘‘Le canal d’Otrante et la Mediterranee antique et medievale’’ (publication forthcoming).
Arthur M. Eckstein is Professor of History at the University of Maryland at College Park. His principal research interests lie in Roman imperial expansion under the Republic, and in the Greek and Roman historiographical response to that expansion. He is the author of numerous articles and three books: Senate and General: Individual Decision Making and Roman Foreign Relations, 264-194 B. c. (1987), Moral Vision in the Histories of Polybius (1995), and The Mediterranean Interstate Anarchy and the Rise of Rome (forthcoming), and coeditor of ''The Searchers’’: Essays and Reflections on John Ford’s Classic Western (with Peter Lehman, 2004).
Paul Erdkamp is research fellow at the Department of History, University of Leiden. His research interests include Roman warfare, rural society, ancient economy, and demography. He is the author of Hunger and the Sword. Warfare and Food Supply in Roman Republican Wars, 264-30 BC (1998) and The Grain Market in the Roman Empire (forthcoming).
Daniel J. Gargola is Associate Professor of History at the University of Kentucky. His research focuses on the intersections between politics, religion, and law in republican Rome. He is the author of Lands, Laws, and Gods: Magistrates and Ceremony in the Regulation of Public Lands in Republican Rome (1995).
Erich S. Gruen is Gladys Rehard Professor of History and Classics and Chair of the Graduate Program in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology at the University of California, Berkeley. His works on Roman republican history include The Last Generation of the Roman Republic (1974), The Hellenistic World and the Coming of Rome (1984), and Culture and Identity in Republican Rome (1992). His most recent book is Diaspora: Jews amidst Greeks and Romans (2002). He is currently working on a long-range project tentatively entitled Cultural Appropriations and Collective Identity in Antiquity.
Karl-J. Holkeskamp is Professor of Ancient History at the Institute of Classical Studies, University of Cologne. He is especially interested in the history of republican Rome, its political culture and society on the one hand, and in the history of archaic Greece, the emergence of the polis and of written law on the other. Recent publications include Sinn (in) der Antike. Orientierungssysteme, Leitbilder und Wertkonzepte im Altertum (coedited with J. Rusen, E. Stein-Holkeskamp, and H. Th. Grutter, 2003); SENATVS POPVLVSQVE ROMANVS. Die poli-tische Kultur der Republik - Dimensionen und Deutungen (2004), and Rekonstruk-tionen einer Republik. Die politische Kultur des antiken Rom und die Forschung der letzten Jahrzehnte (2004).
Martin Jehne is Professor of Ancient History at the Institute of History, University of Dresden. His main topic of research for some years now has been the history of the Roman Republic, especially its political system and social structure, but he is also interested in the establishment of monarchy in early imperial times and in Classical Greece, especially its international relations. His publications include Der Staat des Dictators Caesar (1987), Koine Eirene. Unter-suchungen zu den Befriedungs - und StabilisierungsbemiXhungen in der grie-chischen Poliswelt des 4. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (1994), and Caesar (3rd edn, 2004), and, as editor, Demokratie in Rom? Die Rolle des Volkes in der Politik der romischen Republik (1995).
C. F. Konrad teaches Classical Studies at Texas A&M University, and conducts research in Roman government, religion, and law, and in Greco-Roman historiography. He is the author of Plutarch’s Ser-torius: A Historical Commentary (1994) and editor of Augusto augurio: Rerum humanarum et divinarum commenta-tiones in honorem Jerzy Linderski (2004), and is currently working on a study of Roman dictators.
Neville Morley is Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Bristol. His interests encompass ancient economic and social history, historical theory, and the place of antiquity in nineteenth-century debates on modernity. His recent publications include Theories, Models and Concepts in Ancient History (2004) and articles on demography, decadence, and migration, and he is currently completing a book on ancient trade.
Robert Morstein-Marx is Professor of Classics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research currently focuses on the intellectual, ideological, and communicative dimensions of late republican politics. He is the author of Hegemony to Empire: The Development of the Roman Imperium in the East from 148 to 62 BC (1995) and Mass Oratory and Political Power in the Late Roman Republic (2004).
John A. North taught some Greek and more Roman history in University College London from 1963 until 2003. Having been Head of the Department of History for much of the 1990s, he is now Emeritus Professor of History. Most of his published research has concerned the religious history of the Romans and of the Roman Empire, including Religions of Rome (with Mary Beard and Simon Price, 1998). Currently, he is working as a member (and co-director) of a funded project, based in University College London, to provide text, translation, and commentary on the Lexicon of Festus.
John R. Patterson is University Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, and Director of
Studies in Classics at Magdalene College. His publications include Political Life in the City of Rome (2000) and survey articles: ‘‘The City of Rome: From Republic to Empire,’’ JRS 82 (1992) and (with Emma Dench and Emmanuele Curti) ‘‘The Archaeology of Central and Southern Roman Italy: Recent Trends and Approaches, ’’ JRS 86 (1996).
Mark Pobjoy is Senior Tutor at Magdalen College, Oxford, having formerly been Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at the College. His interests range from Latin epigraphy and classical historiography to the poetry of Virgil, while his principal speciality is the political history of Roman Italy. His publications include articles on Latin inscriptions and the coinage of the Social War, while his major current project is a work on the history of Capua under Roman rule.
Kurt A. Raaflaub is David Herlihy University Professor and Professor of Classics and History as well as Director of the Program in Ancient Studies at Brown University. His special interests focus on the social, political, and intellectual history of archaic and classical Greece and republican Rome, and more recently on the interaction between Egypt and Ancient West Asia on the one hand; Greece and Rome on the other. Recent publications include Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (coauthored, 2005), The Discovery of Freedom in Ancient Greece (2004), and War and Society in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds (coedited with Nathan Rosenstein, 1999).
Beryl Rawson is Professor Emerita and Visiting Fellow in Classics at the Australian National University. She has written on the social, cultural, and political history of Rome (late republican and imperial), and has particular interest in the family and in children and childhood. Her publications include The Politics of Friendship. Pompey and Cicero (1978), The Family in Ancient Rome: New Perspectives (1986), Marriage, Divorce, and Children in Ancient Rome (1991), The Roman Family in Italy (with Paul Weaver, 1997), and Children and Childhood in Roman Italy (2003).
Nathan Rosenstein is Professor of History at the Ohio State University. His research focuses on the political culture, economy, demography, and military history of the middle and late Republic. He is the author of Imperatores Victi: Military Defeat and Aristocratic Competition in the Middle and Late Republic (1990), Rome At War: Farms, Families, and Death in the Middle Republic (2004), and various articles, and the editor (along with Kurt Raaflaub) of War and Society in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds: Asia, The Mediterranean, Europe, and Mesoamerica (1999).
JOrg RUpke is Professor for Comparative Religion (European Polytheistisms) in the Department of Religious Studies of the University of Erfurt and Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy. He is also coordinator of the German Science Foundation’s Priority Research Programme 1080: ‘‘Roman Imperial and Provincial Religion.’’ His special interests are in the history of religion in the ancient Mediterranean and the sociology of religion. Recently, he coedited Rituals in Ink (2004) and published a three-volume prosopography of Roman priests (Fasti Sacerdotum, 2005). An English translation of his Introduction to Roman Religion (2001; Italian edition 2004) is forthcoming.
Simon Stoddart has held posts in Cambridge (Junior Research Fellow, Magdalene College; University Lecturer and
University Senior Lecturer), Oxford (Charter Fellow, Wolfson College), Bristol (Lecturer and Senior Lecturer), and York (Lecturer) and has recently retired as editor of Antiquity. He has directed several fieldwork projects in Central Italy (Casentino, Gubbio and Nepi) and has written or edited books on Etruscan Italy, the Mediterranean Bronze Age, the Gubbio fieldwork, landscapes, and the Celts.
W. Jeffrey Tatum is the Olivia Nelson Dorman Professor of Classics at the Florida State University. He is the author of The Patrician Tribune: Publius Clodius Pulcher (1999) and numerous articles on Roman history and Latin literature. He is currently finishing a commentary on the Commentariolum Petitionis and working on a biography of Julius Caesar.
Mario Torelli is Professor of Archaeology and the History of Greek and Roman Art at the University of Perugia. His many publications include, most recently in English, Tota Italia: Essays in the Cultural Formation of Roman Italy (1999), and, as editor, The Etruscans
(2001).
Katherine E. Welch is Associate Professor at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts. Her interests focus on Roman Italy and Roman Asia Minor, and they include architecture, sculpture, and painting. She has worked at numerous excavations around the Mediterranean and is currently on the staff of the excavations at Aphrodisias in Turkey. She is the author of The Roman Theater from its Origins to the Colosseum (2004), coeditor of Representations of War in Ancient Rome (with Sheila Dillon, 2005), and has written articles on topics such as Roman theatres and stadia, the basilica, Roman topography, portrait and votive sculpture, and the sculptural and painting decoration of Roman houses.
Alexander Yakobson is senior lecturer in the Department ofHistory at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research interests focus primarily on late republican politics and elections and the early principate. He is the author of a number of articles on the late Republic and early principate and of Elections and Electioneering in Rome: a Study in the Political System of the Late Republic (1999).
Map 1 The Western Mediterranean
Map 2 The Eastern Mediterranean
Map 3 Italy and the islands
Map 4 Central Italy
Map 5 Central and southern Italy, c.218
Map 6 The physical landscape of republican Italy
Hills of Rome
1 Palatine
2 Capitol
3 Quirinal
4 Viminal
5 Esquiline
6 Oppian
7 Caelian
8 Aventine
Map 7 The city of Rome from the mid-2nd to the mid-1st century. Dotted lines indicate approximate locations. See Maps 8 and 9 for greater detail in the city center.
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