Notes on Contributors
Carlos Amunátegui
is Professor of Roman law and Legal Theory at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He has written seven books on Roman law, Comparative law, Codification and Artificial Intelligence, among them: Origen de los Poderes del Paterfamilias, El Matrimonio en Plauto and Arcana Technicae. El Derecho y la Inteligencia Artificial.
Clifford Ando
is David B. and Clara E. Stern Distinguished Service Professor and Professor of Classics and History at the University of Chicago. He writes on the histories of religion, law and government under Rome and in the Roman tradition.
Valentina Arena
is Reader in Roman History at University College London, UK. Her work focuses on the history of ancient ideas and the intellectual landscape of the Roman Republic. She is the author of Libertas and the Practice of Politics in the late Roman Republic (2012), the editor of Liberty, Ancient Ideas and Modern Perspectives (2018) and co-editor of volumes on the antiquarian tradition. She is the Principal Investigator of the ERC research project on Roman Republican Antiquarians.
Catalina Balmaceda
is Associate Professor of Ancient History at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. She has published Sallust: The War against Jugurtha (with Michael Comber, 2009), more recently Virtus Romana: Politics and Morality in the Roman Historians (2017) and several articles on Roman historiography. She is now leading a project on the idea of merit and meritocracy in Roman intellectual and political culture.
Henriette van der Blom
is Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Birmingham, where she researches Roman oratory and politics, rhetoric and memory culture. She is the author of Cicero’s Role Models (OUP 2010) and Oratory and Political Career in the late Roman Republic (CUP 2016) and the founder of the Network for Oratory and Politics.
Harriet I. Flower
is Andrew Fleming West Professor of Classics at Princeton University. She teaches and writes about Roman history with a special focus on republican political culture, memory and forgetting, spectacle, and traditional religious practices.
Frédéric Hurlet
is Professor of Roman History at Paris Nanterre University and member of the Institut Universitaire de France. He has published widely on Augustus and government of the Roman Empire. He is leading a research project focused on Augustan aristocracy.
Claudia Moatti
is Professor of Roman History at Paris 8 and of Classics at USC (Los Angeles). She has studied the intellectual transformations of the Roman society at the end of the Republic, the Roman land archives and the control of human mobility in the Roman Empire. Her most recent book examines the notion of res publica (Res publica. Histoire romaine de la chose publique, Paris, 2018).
Francisco Pina Polo
is Professor of Ancient History at the Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain). His publications include The Triumviral Period (2020), The Quaestorship in the Roman Republic (with Alejandro Díaz Fernández, 2019), and The consul at Rome: The Civil Functions of the Consuls in the Roman Republic (2011). He was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton) in 2012 and 2014. He is co-director of the series Libera Res Publica.
Cristina Rosillo-López
is Senior Lecturer in Ancient History, University Pablo de Olavide, Seville. Her research focuses on politics and political culture of the Late Roman Republic. She is the author of La corruption à la fin de la République romaine (IIe-Ier av. JC): aspects politiques et financiers (Historia Einzelschriften 2010) and Public Opinion and Politics in the Late Roman Republic (CUP, 2017).
Jeffrey Tatum
is Professor of Classics at the Victoria University of Wellington. He works principally on the history and literature of the late Roman Republic. He is the author of several books, including The Patrician Tribune: Publius Clodius Pulcher, Always I am Caesar, and Quintus Cicero: A Brief Handbook on Canvassing for Office.