Explores how cultural memory theory intersects with the literature, politics, history, and archaeology of Republican and Augustan Rome.

Cultural memory is a framework which elucidates the relationship between the past and the present: essentially, why, how, and with what results certain pieces o

Poetics of the First Punic War investigates the literary afterlives of Rome’s first conflict with Carthage. From its original role in the Middle Republic as t

Ovid's Fasti comments on Augustan religion by means of ambivalent aetiologies, elegiac jokes and subtle allusions to the religious self-fashioning of the imperi

Crises resulting from war or other upheavals turn the lives of individuals upside down, and they can leave marks on a community for many years after the event.