A Companion to the Political Culture of the Roman Republic

Hans Beckis Professor and Chair of Ancient History at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany and Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Arts at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He has published various volumes on Roman Republican elites, including Consuls and Res Publica (Cambridge 2011, co-editor), Money and Power in the Roman Republic (Brussels 2016, co-editor) and Karriere und Hierarchie (Berlin 2005). His work has won him many distinctions and awards, including the Anneliese Maier Prize by the German Humboldt Foundation. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Mark Beckis an Associate Professor of Classics at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC, USA. He received his PhD in classics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has published several articles and chapters on Plutarch, as well as the Companion to Plutarch (2014), published by Wiley Blackwell.

J. Lea Benessis an Associate Professor in the Department of Ancient History, Macquarie University, Australia, and has published many articles in the field of Roman Republican politics. She is Vice-President of the Australasian Society for Classical Studies and President of the Australasian Women in Ancient World Studies organisation.

Edward Bisphamteaches Ancient History at Brasenose and St John’s Colleges Oxford. His research is mainly focused on aspects of the history, archaeology and epigraphy of pre-Roman and Roman Italy.

Chiara Carsanais Professor of Roman History and History of Ancient Historiography at the University of Pavia. She is interested in ancient political thought, in late Roman Republican history, and in Greek historiography from the Roman period. In addition to numerous articles on these themes, she has published the following volumes: La teoria della ‘costituzione mista’ nell’età imperiale romana (1990); Commento storico al libro II delle Guerre Civili di Appiano (parte I ) (2007) and, as editor together with Maria Teresa Schettino, Utopia e utopie nel pensiero storico antico (2008).

Guido Clemente† is Professor of Roman History at the Scuola Normale Superiore, and at the universities of Pisa and Florence. He has taught at various foreign universities, including Princeton and Columbia. He works on the history of late antiquity, including both administrative and sociopolitical issues, and the history of the Republic, with a particular focus on political and institutional problems.

Tim Cornellis Professor Emeritus of Ancient History at the University of Manchester. He is the General Editor of The Fragments of the Roman Historians (2013), and author of numerous works on Roman history and historiography, including The Beginnings of Rome (1995), of which he is currently preparing a second edition.

Marianne Coudryis retired Professor of Roman History in Université de Haute-Alsace, France. She is a specialist of the Roman Senate of the mid- and late Republic (monograph, Le sénat de la république romaine de la guerre d’Hannibal à Auguste (Bonnefond-Coudry 2020 [1989], and many articles) and author, with G. Lachenaud, of the edition-translation-commentary of Cassius Dio, books 36–37 and 38–39–40 in the Collection des Universités de France (2014 and 2011).

Jean-Michel Davidwas formerly Professor of Roman History first at the University of Strasbourg and subsequently at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. His research focuses principally on the social, political and cultural history of the Roman Republic. He is author of le Patronat judiciaire au dernier siècle de la République romaine (Rome 1992), La Romanisation de l’Italie (Paris 1994 – translated as The Roman Conquest of Italy , Oxford 1996), La République romaine, crise d’une aristocratie (Paris 2000) and Au service de l’honneur, les appariteurs de magistrats romains (Paris 2019).

Antonio Duplá-Ansuateguiis Professor of Ancient History at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain). His interests range from politics and violence in the late Roman Republic to classical reception, particularly the relationship between classicism and fascism. He has co-edited (with H. Beck, M. Jehne and F. Pina Polo) Consuls and Res Publica. Holding High Office in the Roman Republic (Cambridge 2011) and (with E. dell’Elicine and J.Pérez) Antigüedad clásica y naciones modernas en el Viejo y el Nuevo Mundo (Madrid 2018), and published ‘Incitement to Violence in Late Republican Political Oratory’ (in C. Rosillo ed. Political Communication in the Roman World , Leiden 2017). He is currently leading an international research team on Antiquity, Nationalisms and Historiography ( http://aniho.hypotheses.org) and is also a member of the international project IMAGINES.

Lisa Pilar Eberleis Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the Eberhard-Karl University Tuebingen. Her PhD is from the Group for Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology at UC Berkeley. In between, she spent two years as a Junior Research Fellow in the Humanities at St John’s College, Oxford.

Egon Flaigwas formerly Professor of Ancient History at the Universities of Greifswald (1997–2008) and Rostock (2008–2014), as well as Visiting Professor at the EHESS, Paris (at the invitation of Pierre Bourdieu), at the Centre Gustave Glotz (Sorbonne) and at the University of Konstanz. He obtained the Aby-Warburg-Stiftung Prize in 1997, and has held fellowships at the Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin (2003/2004), the Historischen Kolleg, München (2009/2010), and the Kulturwissenschaftlichen Kolleg, Konstanz (2015). His principal monographs are: Den Kaiser herausfordern. Die Usurpation im Römischen Reich (Frankfurt 1992); Ritualisierte Politik. Zeichen Gesten und Herrschaft im Alten Rom (Göttingen 2003); Weltgeschichte der Sklaverei (München 2009, 2nd ed. 2011); Die Mehrheitsentscheidung. Entstehung und kulturelle Dynamik (Paderborn 2013).

Rachel Foxleyis Associate Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Reading. Her book The Levellers: Radical Political Thought in the English Revolution was published by Manchester University Press in 2013. Her current research is on the English republicans and the concept of democracy, and she has published articles and chapters on Milton, Harrington and Nedham.

Andrew Galliais Associate Professor of History at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Remembering the Roman Republic: Culture, Politics and History under the Principate (2012) and several articles on Roman history and culture. He is currently working on a study of rudeness in Roman society.

Nathaniel K. Gilmoreis Assistant Professor of Government at the University of Texas-Austin. He has published work in the American Political Science Review and the Journal of the History of Ideas .

Christopher Hamelis Maître de conférences in philosophy at the Université Rouen Normandie (ERIAC). Specialising in the history of political thought, he has published a book on Algernon Sidney ( L’esprit républicain. Droits naturels et vertu civique chez Algernon Sidney , Paris 2011) and articles in History of Political Thought and Contemporary Political Theory .

Tom Hillardis an Honorary Associate Professor in the Department of Ancient History, Macquarie University, Australia. He has published numerous articles in the field of Roman politics and historiography, and co-edited (with Kathryn Welch) Roman Crossings. Theory and Practice in the Roman Republic (2005).