Newcastle University

Qualifications 

BA Classics, Pavia (Italy), 1998. PhD Oxford, 2004. PhD San Marino, 2006.

Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice, Staff Development Unit, Newcastle University. Newcastle Teaching Award. 2009

Academic career

 1999-2002 Teacher of Latin, University of Oxford.

2002-2003 Research assistant at Centre for the Study of the Ancient Documents, University of Oxford.

2002-2003 Stipendiary Lecturer in Ancient History at Keble College and Wadham College, Oxford.

2006- Lecturer in Ancient History, Newcastle University

Research Interests

Hellenistic and Roman history, the Jews in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, Egypt, Documentary Papyrology.

Current Work

• The Jews in early Ptolemaic Egypt, and the author(s) of the Letter of Aristeas to Philokrates
• The origin of the 'canon' of the Books of Maccabees and on the author of 4 Maccabees
• Edition of unpublished Greek documentary papyri from the Oxyrhynchus collection (Oxford, Sackler Library)
• Chapter on 'Court Jews' in Ptolemaic Egypt
• The Jewish community of Smyrna
• Treatises between Rome and Jerusalem
• Egyptian documents from the reign of Hadrian

Undergraduate Teaching

Module leader 

CAH 3030 Jews in the Graeco-Roman World (Semester 1).

CAH 1001 Case Studies in Ancient History I. The Ancient Economy (Semester 1).

CAH 2012 Roman Egypt (running in 2013 2014) (Semester 2).

Contributing lecturer

CAH 2008 Issues in Ancient History (Semester 1)

CAH 3020/3021 Portfolio in Ancient History (both Semesters).

Postgraduate Teaching 

MA Ancient History Rulership, Power and Court Societies in the Ancient World. 

Module leader

CAH 8009 Approaches to Ancient History Research I

CAH 8010 Approaches to Ancient History Research II

CAH 8003 Dissertation

Contributing lecturer

CAC 8000 Research Skills and Dissertation Training (Semester 2) 

• Capponi L. Roman Egypt. London: Bristol Classical Press, 2010.
• Capponi L. Il tempio di Leontopoli in Egitto. Pisa, Italy: Edizioni ETS, 2008.
• Capponi L. Priests in Augustan Egypt. In: Santangelo, F., Richardson, J, ed. Priests and State in the Roman World. Leiden: Brill, 2011, pp.505-526.
• Capponi L. Spaces of Justice in Roman Egypt. In: De Angelis, F, ed. Spaces of Justice in the Roman World. Leiden: Brill, 2010, pp.251-276.
• Capponi L. Augustan Egypt : the creation of a Roman province. London: Routledge, 2005.
• Capponi L. Hecataeus of Abdera and a New Conjecture in Josephus, Contra Apionem 1.189. Histos 2011, 5, 247-265.
• Capponi L. Tetragonos Stoa. A commercial centre in Augustan Alexandria. In: Arce, J., Goffaux, B, ed. Horrea d'Hispanie et de la Méditerranée romaine. Madrid: Collection Casa de Velazquez, 2011, pp.117-124.
• Capponi L. Aristoboulos and the hieros logos of the Egyptian Jews. In: 25th International Congress of Papyrology. 2010, Ann Arbor: Scholarly Publishing Office, The University of Michigan Library.
• Capponi L. Hadrian in Jerusalem and Alexandria in 117. Athenaeum 2010, 98(2), 467-487.
• Capponi L. Serapis, Boukoloi and Christians from Hadrian to Marcus Aurelius. In: Rizzi, M, ed. Hadrian and the Christians. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2010, pp.121-140.
• Capponi L. Le fonti storiche e i documenti sulle finanze dei Giudei in Egitto. In: Troiani, L., Zecchini, G, ed. Le fonti storiche nei primi secoli dell'impero. Roma: L'"Erma" di Bretschneider, 2005.
• Capponi L. Impulsore Chresto. Una risposta dai papiri. In: Bussi, S., Foraboschi, D, ed. Roma e l’eredità ellenistica. Atti del convegno internazionale, Milano, Università Statale, 14-16 gennaio 2009. Pisa-Roma: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2010, pp.217-226.
• Capponi L. The oikos of Alexandria. In: Harris, W.V., Ruffini, G, ed. Ancient Alexandria between Egypt and Greece. Leiden: Brill, 2004, pp.115-124.
• Capponi L. Ecateo di Abdera e la prima katoikia di Giudei in Egitto (Giuseppe, Contra Apionem I 186-9). Materia Giudaica 2005, 10(2), 233-240.
• Capponi L. Petizione tolemaica contro furto e violenza. Tyche 2004, 19, 15-18.
• Capponi L. Maecenas and Pollio. Zeitschrift fuer Papyrologie und Epigraphik 2002, 140, 181-4.
• Capponi L. P.Oxy. IV 786: conclusion of a census-return. Zeitschrift fuer Papyrologie und Epigraphik 2002, 140, 177-180.
• Capponi L. Jews in Egypt. In: Encyclopaedia of the Bible and its Reception (EBR). Berlin: De Gruyter, 2013. In Press.
• Capponi L. P.Oxy. IV 794: cessione di terra catecico. Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 2006, 155, 235-238.
• Capponi L. 5164. Receipt for Delivery of Oil. The Oxyrhynchus Papyri 2012, LXXVIII, 139-140.
• Capponi L. 5165. Order to a Banker. The Oxyrhynchus Papyri 2012, LXXVIII, 140-141.
• Capponi L. 5166. Instruction to Receive Tax on Sale of a Slave. The Oxyrhynchus Papyri 2012, LXXVIII, 141-144.
• Capponi L. 5168. Wet-Nurse Contract. The Oxyrhynchus Papyri 2012, LXXVIII, 146-149.
• Capponi L. 5169. Repayment of Loan. The Oxyrhynchus Papyri 2012, LXXVIII, 149-151.
• Capponi L. 5170. Notice to an Agoranomos. The Oxyrhynchus Papyri 2012, LXXVIII, 152-153.
• Capponi L. From the Ptolemies to the Romans: Political and Economic Change in Egypt. By Andrew Monson. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Sehepunkte 2013. Submitted.
• Capponi L. 'Adriano “provinciale”' (pp. 156-7), 'L’amore difficile' (pp. 158-61), 'Affinità elettive' (pp. 162-3), 'Un doloroso rimpianto' (pp. 164-9), 'Iniziazione greca' (pp. 170-1), 'Questione di tolleranza', (pp. 174-5), 'Adriano e gli ebrei' (p. 176-7), 'Un imperatore filelleno' (pp. 178-9), 'Alla testa delle legioni' (pp. 179-81), 'Una tormentata successione' (186-8). In: Calandra, E., Adembri, B, ed. Marguerite Yourcenar. Adriano, l’antichità immaginata. Milan: Mondadori Electa, 2013, pp.156-188.
• Capponi L. Second Temple and Hellenistic Judaism. In: Encyclopaedia of the Bible and its Reception (EBR). Berlin: De Gruyter, 2013. In Press.