A Companion to the Political Culture of the Roman Republic

Karl-J. Hölkeskampis Professor of Ancient History at the University of Cologne (Germany), now Emeritus. He has published books and articles on both Greek and Roman history in English as well as in German, e.g. Die Entstehung der Nobilität (1987, 2nd. ed. 2011), Reconstructing the Roman Republic. An Ancient Political Culture and Modern Research (2010) and Roman Republican Reflections. Studies in Politics, Power, and Pageantry (2020). He is currently working on a book about Roman rituals as ‘theatre of power’.

Peter J. Hollidayis Professor of the History of Classical Art and Archaeology at the California State University, Long Beach. His research currently focuses on the ideological and communicative dimensions of republican and early imperial art and the reception of classical art in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America. His publications include Narrative and Event in Ancient Art (ed. 1993), The Origins of Roman Historical Commemoration in the Visual Arts (2002) and American Arcadia: California and the Classical Tradition (2016).

E.J. Kondratieffearned his PhD in Ancient History at the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests and publications include Roman Republican institutions, political history and culture, material culture and numismatics, and the topography of Rome as a setting for political and social interaction. He also has a strong interest in the Principate of Augustus as a transitional period between republican and imperial systems of government, and in the Aeneid of Vergil, insofar as it embodies the tensions and concerns of that period. He has taught at several universities, and is currently Associate Professor of History at Western Kentucky University.

Bernhard Linkeis Professor of Roman history at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, with research focuses including ancient religion, naval warfare and the Roman Republic. His analysis of ancient religion concentrates on the interaction of religious conceptions and the public, political sphere. Linke advocates a dynamic approach towards the history of the Roman Republic that focuses on the specific, situational conditions of the historical subject, rather than overemphasising stability and continuity. The significance of the periphery is crucial to his understanding of the Roman expansion. He is the author of Antike Religion (2014) and Die römische Republik von den Gracchen bis Sulla (2015).

Pedro López Barja de Quirogacompleted his PhD at the Complutense University of Madrid. He is Profesor Titular (acreditado catedrático) of Ancient History at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. He has been a visiting scholar at Wolfson College, University of Oxford (2002/2003), and affiliate academic in University College London (2016). His main research interests are Roman slavery, Roman political thought (Cicero in particular) and civil wars.

Francisco Marco Simónis Professor of Ancient History at the University of Zaragoza. His main research interests include Roman and provincial religion, especially in western Celtic regions, and ancient magico-religious practices.

Robert Morstein-Marxis Professor of Classics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research has focused for some time on late-Republican political history, especially political rhetoric, ideology and, most recently, Julius Caesar.

Walter Nicgorski isEmeritus Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. His writings on Cicero as well as other topics have appeared in various collections and journals. He edited and contributed to Cicero’s Practical Philosophy (2012). He directed summer seminars on the texts of Cicero for the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is the author of Cicero’s Skepticism and His Recovery of Political Philosophy (Palgrave Macmillan 2016).

John A. Northis Emeritus Professor of History at UCL. He taught Greek and Roman History there from 1963 to 2003 and was Head of the Department of History in the 1990s and Director of the London Institute of Classical Studies from 2011 to 2014. His publications have mostly concerned the history of pagan religion from early Rome to the emergence of Christianity, including Religions of Rome (with Mary Beard and Simon Price), Cambridge University Press 1998. More recently, he has written a chapter on the religious activities of slaves in the Classical World ( Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Slaveries , available online, doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199575251.013.26).

Francisco Pina Polois Professor of Ancient History at the University of Zaragoza, Spain. His publications have focused on politics and institutions in the Roman Republic, particularly in the late Republican period, such as The Consul at Rome. The Civil Functions of the Consuls in the Roman Republic , Cambridge University Press 2011; Foreign Clientelae in the Roman Empire: a Reconsideration , Historia Einzelschriften, Stuttgart 2015 (with M. Jehne, eds.); The Quaestorship in the Roman Republic , Berlin 2019 (with A. Díaz Fernández). He is co-director of the series Libera Res Publica .

Andrea Raggiis Associate Professor of Roman History at the University of Pisa. He is author of Seleuco di Rhosos. Cittadinanza e privilegi nell’Oriente greco in età tardo-repubblicana (2006), which was awarded the silver medal at the VII Gérard Boulvert International Prize in Roman Law 2007 , and has published about 70 articles in peer-reviewed journals and books. His research focuses on the administrative history of the Roman Republic and the spread of the Roman citizenship.

Stefan Rebenichis Professor of Ancient History and the Classical Tradition in the Department of History at the University of Bern (Switzerland). He has published widely in the field of late antiquity and the history of historiography, including Jerome (London 2002) and Theodor Mommsen. Eine Biographie (first published 2002, 2nd ed. Munich 2007). Most recently, he has edited a volume on Monarchische Herrschaft im Altertum (Berlin and Boston 2017) and, together with Hans-Ulrich Wiemer, on Julian the Apostate (Leiden and Berlin 2020).

John Richis Emeritus Professor of Roman History at the University of Nottingham. His publications include Declaring War in the Roman Republic in the Period of Transmarine Expansion (1976), Cassius Dio: The Augustan Settlement (Roman History 53 – 55.9) (1990), War and Society in the Roman World (ed. with Graham Shipley, 1993), and numerous articles on Roman republican and early imperial history and historiography. He is a contributor to T.J. Cornell et al., The Fragments of the Roman Historians (2013).

Francesca Rohr Viois Professor of Roman History and History of Women in the Roman world at Ca’ Foscari University, Venice. She studies politics and political communication in the late Republic and in the early Empire and gender history in ancient Rome. Her most recent publications include: Publio Ventidio Basso (Rome 2009); Contro il principe. Congiure e dissenso nella Roma di Augusto (Bologna 2011); Fulvia (Naples 2013); Le custodi del potere. Donne e politica alla fine della repubblica romana (Rome 2019).

J. Alison Rosenblittis Senior College Lecturer in Ancient History and Director of Studies in Classics at Regent’s Park College (University of Oxford). She has published a number of articles on Latin historiography, especially Sallust’s Historiae , and on late Republican political history. She is the author of three books: E.E. Cummings’ Modernism and the Classics: Each Imperishable Stanza (Oxford University Press 2016); Rome after Sulla (Bloomsbury Academic 2019); The Beauty of Living: E.E. Cummings in the Great War (W.W. Norton 2020).