Bringing together a team of international experts from different subject areas - including law, history, archaeology and anthropology - this book re-evaluates the traditional narratives surrounding the origins of Roman law before the enactment of the Twelve Tables. Much is now known about the archaic period, relevant evidence from later periods continues to emerge and new methodologies bring the promise of interpretive inroads. This book explores whether, in light of recent developments in these fields, the earliest history of Roman law should be reconsidered. Drawing on the critical axioms of contemporary sociological and anthropological theory, the contributors yield new insights and offer new perspectives on Rome's early legal history. In doing so, they seek to revise our understanding of Roman legal history as well as to enrich our appreciation of its culture as a whole.

The Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, an annual publication of the American Academy in Rome, gathers articles on topics including Roman archaeology and topography, ancient and modern Italian history, Latin literature, and Italian art and architectural history. Volume 63/64 is the first volume edited by Sinclair W. Bell, Professor of Art History at Northern Illinois University. This volume includes the following essays and articles:" Incised and Stamped Ceramics from Morgantina: Taking the Long View" by Emma Buckingham and Carla M. Antonaccio; "Early Iron Age and Orientalizing Mediterranean Networks from Funerary Contexts in Latium vetus: Identifying Gender and Special Patterns of Interaction" by Francesca Fulminante; "Herakles on the Move: A Greek Hydria's Journey from Athens to Vulci" by Sheramy D. Bundrick; "A Hemicycle with a View" by Barbara Burrell; "Coinage Programs and Panegyric in the Reign of Trajan: Imagery, Audience, and Gency" by Nathan T. Elkins; "Matidia Minor and the Rebuilding of Suessa Aurunca" by Margaret Woodhull; "Sesostris' Chariot in a Roman Circus? A New Interpretation of a Scene Depicted on an Imperial Oil Lamp" by Sylvain Forichon; "The Sylloge Einsidlensis, Poggio Bracciolini's De Varietate Fortunae, the Turris de Arcu, and the Disappearance of the Arch of Titus in the Circus Maximus" by Tommaso Leoni; "Three Drawings of the Domus Aurea and the Colosseum at the Uffizi: Disiecta membra froma Drawing-book after the Antique?" by Marco Burnetti; and reports from the American Academy in Rome covering 2017-2019.

How did freed slaves reinvent themselves after the shackles of slavery had been lifted? How were they reintegrated into society, and what was their social position and status? What contributions did they make to the society that had once - sometimes brutally - repressed them? This collection builds on recent dynamic work on Roman freedmen, the contributors drawing upon a rich and varied body of evidence - visual, literary, epigraphic and archaeological - to elucidate the impact of freed slaves on Roman society and culture amid the shadow of their former servitude. The contributions span the period between the first century BC and the early third century AD and survey the territories of the Roman Republic and Empire, while focusing on Italy and Rome.

The 14 papers in this volume are taken from a conference held in Edinburgh in 2004. When the organisers called for papers for a conference on Games and Festivals they had no idea the response would be so varied - ranging from Minoan bull leaping to Samoan kilikiti - or that the papers would turn out to be so thematically interrelated. The response has shown that it is not so much the mechanics of the games or the actions carried out at ancient festivals that fascinate modern scholars as their social and political significance and the way the theme could be manipulated by writers and artists. Games and festivals were at the heart of Classical societies, playing a much more important role than in modern western societies (even taking football into account). Festivals structured the year and were inextricably bound up with the structures of society. Games and festivals are also closely linked, as most competitive games took place at a festival, or at least in a religious context, even, it seems, cock fighting and dicing, and many festivals contained elements of competition. Competitiveness pervades Greek and Roman life - and this is reflected in literature and art. In this, an Olympic year, a new selection of papers on Classical games and festivals is especially welcome. The 12 papers are: (1) Grasping the Bull by the Horns: Minoan Bull Sports Eleanor Loughlin; (2) Festival? What Festival? Reading Dance Imagery as Evidence Tyler Jo Smith; (3) Professional Foul: Persona in Pindar Grainne McLaughlin; (4) Orestes the Contender: Chariot Racing and Politics in Fifth Century Athens and Sophocles' "Electra" Eleanor Okell; (5) From Agonistes to Agonios: Hermes, Chaos and Conflict in Competitive Games and Festivals Arlene Allan; (6) Dionysiac Festivals in Aristophanes' "Acharnians" Greta Ham; (7) The Perils of Pittalakos: Settings of Cock Fighting and Dicing in Classical Athens Nick Fisher; (8) Civic Self-Representation in the Hellenistic World: The Festival of Artemis Leukophryene Geoffrey Sumi; (9) Roman Games and Greek Origins in Dionysius of Halicarnassus Clemence Schultze; (10) Epic Games and Real Games in Statius' "Thebaid" 6 and Virgil's "Aeneid" 5 Helen Lovatt; (11) Sport or Showbiz? The "naumachiae" of Imperial Rome Francesca Garello; (12) Dionysiac Scenes on Sagalassian "Oinophoroi" from Seleuceia Sid&

This title provides a panoramic view of ancient cultures in Italy. This impressive collection brings to light the works of international scholars, some previously unavailable to an English-language audience. With new information and assessments about the art, architecture, and archaeology of one of the most dynamic periods in the history of the ancient world - the transition between pre-Roman and Roman Italy - these scholars focus on ancient Italy and the wider Mediterranean. Shedding new light on the evidence of well-known and recently excavated sites and the objects they have yielded - their iconography, manufacturing techniques, and afterlives - this collection follows the first archaeological traces of the rise of ancient Italy to its rediscovery in the Renaissance and its reinvention in contemporary fiction, offering a vibrant contribution to classical studies. Paying tribute to Richard Daniel De Puma, a scholar who has made significant and influential contributions to Etruscan and Roman studies, the contributors to this collection echo the ambition and creativity of his work while offering an up-to-date survey of contemporary Etruscan scholarship. In surveying new developments in both fields, the work collected here represents the diverse, interdisciplinary interests of De Puma as well as areas of recent groundbreaking research.

This new collection presents a rich selection of innovative scholarship on the Etruscans, a vibrant, independent people whose distinct civilization flourished in central Italy for most of the first millennium BCE and whose artistic, social and cultural traditions helped shape the ancient Mediterranean, European, and Classical worlds. Includes contributions from an international cast of both established and emerging scholars Offers fresh perspectives on Etruscan art and culture, including analysis of the most up-to-date research and archaeological discoveries Reassesses and evaluates traditional topics like architecture, wall painting, ceramics, and sculpture as well as new ones such as textile archaeology, while also addressing themes that have yet to be thoroughly investigated in the scholarship, such as the obesus etruscus, the function and use of jewelry at different life stages, Greek and Roman topoi about the Etruscans, the Etruscans’ reception of ponderation, and more Counters the claim that the Etruscans were culturally inferior to the Greeks and Romans by emphasizing fields where the Etruscans were either technological or artistic pioneers and by reframing similarities in style and iconography as examples of Etruscan agency and reception rather than as a deficit of local creativity

How did freed slaves reinvent themselves after the shackles of slavery had been lifted? How were they reintegrated into society, and what was their social position and status? What contributions did they make to the society that had once - sometimes brutally - repressed them? This collection builds on recent dynamic work on Roman freedmen, the contributors drawing upon a rich and varied body of evidence - visual, literary, epigraphic and archaeological - to elucidate the impact of freed slaves on Roman society and culture amid the shadow of their former servitude. The contributions span the period between the first century BC and the early third century AD and survey the territories of the Roman Republic and Empire, while focusing on Italy and Rome.

The tendency of ancient Romans to look to mythical and historical figures for role models is everywhere evident in their surviving literary and material culture. This book broadens the horizon of the long-standing scholarly interest in role models in several ways, looking beyond the more familiar famous heroes---such as Achilles and Alexander the Great---and the paternal figures, both mythological and historical, that gave inspiration to later leaders and authors. From the adoption of specific aspects of a favored role model, to the creation of new visual languages for different social groups, to the deliberate counter of common models, this collection demonstrates the importance of exemplary figures in inspiring imitation and assimilation in the creation of new identities.

Featuring world-renowned scholars and essays from a broad range of fields, including literature, art, and historiography, "Role Models in the Roman World" is a groundbreaking collection at the cusp of the newest scholarship of the classical world.

""Role Models in the Roman World" is an exciting collection, striking for the interdisciplinary range of its contributors and for their vigorous debates---indeed, strong disagreements---about ideas that are currently of fundamental importance in Roman studies: identity construction, exemplarity, memory, monumentality. In framing these crucial issues, and in displaying the range and diversity of current approaches to them, this collection will be useful to every student of the Roman world."
---Matthew Roller, Professor of Classics, Johns Hopkins University

"This collection covers a full range of topics, from how the Romans interpreted their origins from the ashesof Troy on through themes in Roman literature, historiography, declamation, and art, ending with how Christians may have defined their self-presentation in part through reference to earlier, non-Christian models. The editors have shown themselves wonderfully adept at their task, and the result is a uniformly fine volume that will be widely consulted."
---Anthony Corbeill, Professor and Graduate Advisor, Department of Classics, University of Kansas

"Significant essays by leading archaeologists, philologists, and art historians on a theme of central importance in the Roman world."
---Barbara Kellum, Professor and Chair, Department of Art, Smith College

Jacket illustration: Side view of statue of Togato Barberini (c) Araldo de Luca/CORBIS