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Professor Federico Santangelo

  • Email: federico.santangelo@ncl.ac.uk
  • Address: School of History, Classics and Archaeology
    Room 01.40B. Armstrong Building
    Newcastle University
    Newcastle upon Tyne
    NE1 7RU
Background


 

 

 

 

 

Federico Santangelo took his first degree at Bologna, where he studied at the Collegio Superiore, and holds a PhD from University College London. He is the author of Sulla, the Elites and the Empire. A Study of Roman Policies in Italy and the Greek East (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2007), Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), Teofane di Mitilene. Testimonianze e frammenti (Tivoli: Tored, 2015), Marius (London: Bloomsbury, 2016), Roma repubblicana. Una storia in quaranta vite (Rome: Carocci, 2019), La religione dei Romani (Bari-Rome: Laterza, 2022), Silla. Il tiranno riformatore (Soveria Mannelli: Rubbettino, 2022), and Il mondo dei Romani (with Giusto Traina, Turin: Einaudi, 2024). He has edited a volume of previously unpublished papers by Sir Ronald Syme (Approaching the Roman Revolution. Papers on Republican History, Oxford: OUP, 2017) and a sourcebook on the history of the Late Roman Republic (Late Republican Rome, 88-31 BC, London: LACTOR, 2017).

He works mainly on the political and intellectual history of the Roman Republic, on Roman religion, on problems of local and municipal administration in the Roman world, and on aspects of the history of classical scholarship. He is Editor of History of Classical Scholarship (www.hcsjournal.org). He hosts with Giuseppe Giardi the podcast Roma Repubblicana: 40 Storie. He is a Member of the Academia Europaea.

 


 

 

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Qualifications

Ph.D., University College London (2006)

Licenza, Collegio Superiore, Università di Bologna (2002)

Laurea, Università degli Studi, Bologna (2002)

 

 

 

Select publications (Aug 2025)

 

Books             

Sulla, the Elites and the Empire. A Study of Roman Policies in Italy and the Greek East (Impact of Empire 8), Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2007.                           

(with M. H. Crawford, W. M. Broadhead, J. P. T. Clackson, S. Thompson, M. Watmough), Imagines Italicae. A Corpus of Italic Inscriptions (BICS Supplement 110), London: Institute of Classical Studies, 2011.

Divination, Prediction, and the End of the Roman Republic, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Teofane di Mitilene. Testimonianze e frammenti (I Frammenti degli storici greci 9), Tivoli: Edizioni Tored, 2015.

Marius (Ancients in Action), London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.

Roma repubblicana. Una storia in quaranta vite (Frecce 281), Rome: Carocci, 2019.

La religione dei Romani (Storia e Società), Bari-Rome: Laterza, 2022.

Silla. Il tiranno riformatore (dritto/rovescio), Soveria Mannelli: Rubbettino, 2022.

(with G. Traina), Il mondo dei Romani (PBE - Mappe 128), Turin: Einaudi, 2024.

 

 

Edited Books 

(with James H. Richardson) Priests and State in the Roman World (Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge 33), Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2011.

(with Angelo Giavatto) La retorica e la scienza dell'antico. Lo stile dei classicisti italiani nel XX secolo (Rezeption der Antike 2), Heidelberg: Verlag Antike, 2013.

(with James H. Richardson) The Roman Historical Tradition: Regal and Republican Periods (Oxford Readings in Classical Studies), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.

(with James H. Richardson) Andreas Alföldi in the Twenty-First Century (Heidelberger Althistorische Beiträge und Epigraphische Studien 56), Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2015. 

(with M. García Morcillo and J. H. Richardson), Ruin or Renewal? Places and the Transformation of Memory in the City of Rome, Edizioni Quasar, Rome, 2016.

(with Errietta M. A. Bissa), Studies on Wealth in the Ancient World (BICS Supplement 133), London: School of Advanced Studies, 2016.

The late Sir Ronald Syme, Approaching the Roman Revolution. Papers on Republican History, ed. F. Santangelo, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.

Late Republican Rome, 88-31 BC (LACTOR 7), London: London Association of Classical Teachers, 2017 [available from http://lactor.webs.com/].

(with Claudia Beltrão da Rosa), Cicero and Roman Religion. Eight Studies (Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge 72), Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2020, 154 pp.

(with Claudia Beltrão), Estátuas na religião romana (Humanitas Supplementum – Estudos monográficos 65), Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2020, 205 pp.

(with Juliana Bastos Marques) Dossiê: Construções historiográficas de autoridade e autoria a partir dos modelos clássicos, Special Issue of Letras Clássicas n. s. 1 (2021) [publ. 2022], 2-139.

(with Manfredi Zanin) Napoleone e l’Antico, Special Issue of FuturoClassico 8 (2022), 1-260.

(with Mattia Balbo) A Community in Transition. Rome between the Hannibalic War and the Gracchi, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2023, x+378 pp.

(with Werner Eck and Konrad Vössing) Emperor, Army, and Society. Studies in Roman Imperial History for Anthony R. Birley (Antiquitas 1.77), Bonn: Habelt Verlag, 2022, xiv+506 pp.

(with Werner Eck and Konrad Vössing) Emperor, Army, and Society. Studies in Roman Imperial History for Anthony R. Birley (Antiquitas 1.77), Bonn: Habelt Verlag, 2022, xiv+506 pp.

(with Juliana Bastos Marques) Authority and History: Ancient Models, Modern Questions, London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, viii+196 pp.

(with Agustín Moreno) Dossier: Lecturas historiográficas sobre la romanización, Themed Issue of Anuario de la Escuela de Historia Virtual 14 (2023), 1-129.

(with Fabrizio Oppedisano and Paola S. Salvatori) Costruire la nuova Italia. Miti di Roma e fascismo, Rome: Viella, 2023, 392 pp.

(with David García Domínguez and Juan García González) Connected Histories of the Roman Civil Wars (88-30 BCE) (Roman Relations 1), Berlin and Boston: de Gruyter, 2024, 283 pp.


 

 

Articles

‘Memnone di Eraclea e il dominio romano in Asia Minore’, Simblos 4 (2004), 247-261.

‘The Religious Tradition of the Gracchi’, Archiv für Religionsgeschichte 7 (2005), 198-214.

‘Fundus Atilianus Arruntianus Innielius Antias. A Note on the Topography of Veleia’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 153 (2005), 267-268.

‘Prodigies at Privernum. A Note on Cicero, div. I 97’, Ancient Society 35 (2005), 167-173.

‘Confini di città e confini di pagi nell’Italia romana: il problema del “dualismo limitaneo”’, in L. Capogrossi Colognesi-E. Gabba (eds.), Gli statuti municipali, Pavia 2006, 615-626.

‘George Grote’s Early Papers on Roman Culture’, Quaderni di storia 63 (2006), 57-109.

‘Demagoghi romani e fiorentini in Machiavelli’, Latomus 65 (2006), 155-167.

‘Magnesia sul Meandro alla vigilia della prima guerra mitridatica. Nota sulla cronologia di I.Magn. 100b’, Epigraphica Anatolica 39 (2006), 133-138.

‘Da Cafo a ‘cafone’?’, La Parola del Passato 349 (2006), 302-305.

‘Pompey and Religion’, Hermes 135 (2007), 228-233.

‘Sylla et l’Égypte’, Revue de Philologie 79 (2005) [published in 2007], 325-328.

‘Prediction and Divination in Diodorus’, Dialogues d’histoire ancienne 33 (2007), 115-126.

‘Sulla and the Senate: a Reconsideration’, Cahiers du Centre Gustave-Glotz 17 (2006) [publ. 2008], 7-22.

‘A Survey of Recent Scholarship on the Age of the Gracchi (1985-2005)’, Topoi. Orient-Occident 15 (2007) [publ. 2008], 465-510.

‘Cicero and Marius’, Athenaeum 96 (2008), 597-607.

‘The Fetials and their ius’, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 51 (2008), 63-93.

‘Le Quotidien d’une cité exceptionnelle : élites et évergétisme dans la Carthage romaine’, in C. Berrendonner - M. Cébeillac-Gervasoni - L. Lamoine (eds.), Le quotidien municipal dans l’Occident romain, Clermont-Ferrand 2008, 459-471.

(with F. Papagni) Italian edition of A. Krawczuk, Kolonizacja sullańska [Sullan Colonization], Krakow 1960, with introduction and notes, Simblos 5 (2008), 7-99.

‘With or Without You: Some Late Hellenistic Narratives of Contemporary History’, Scripta Classica Israelica 28 (2009), 57-78.

‘What did the Cloatii do for Gytheum? A Note on Syll.3 748’, Historia 58 (2009), 361-366.

Entries on ‘Brithagoras from Heraclea Pontica’, ‘Propylos from Heraclea Pontica’, and ‘Thrasymedes from Heraclea Pontica’, in A. Coşkun (ed.), Amici Populi Romani (APR 03), Waterloo, On. 2010.

‘New Citizens from Gades: a Note on Cicero, Balb. 22.50’, Philologus 154 (2010), 145-147.

‘The Importance of Talking to the Emperor: Italo Calvino’s Nerone e Berta’, International Journal of the Classical Tradition 17 (2010), 423-435.

‘Warfare and Local Government in Appian’, in L. Lamoine-C. Berrendonner-M .Cébeillac Gervasoni (eds.), La Praxis municipale dans l’Occident romain, Clermont-Ferrand 2010, 31-41.

‘Romanizarea Italiei. Aspecte si perspective noi’, in A. Rubel (ed.), Romanizarea. Impunere si adeziune în Imperiul Roman, Iasi 2011, 28-39.

‘Pax deorum and Pontiffs’, in J. H. Richardson-F. Santangelo (eds.), Priests and State in the Roman World, Stuttgart 2011, 161-186.

‘Whose Sacrilege? A Note on Sal. 5.14’, Classical World 104 (2011), 333-338.

'Law and Divination in the Late Roman Republic', in O. Tellegen-Couperus (ed.), Law and Religion in the Roman Republic, Mnemosyne Supplement 336, Leiden-Boston 2012, 31-54.

'Authoritative Forgeries: Late Republican History Re-told in Pseudo-Sallust', Histos 6 (2012), 27-51.

'From Pompeii to Ameria: Patrimonies and Institutions in the Age of Sulla', in C. Berrendonner - M. Cebeillac-Gervasoni- L. Lamoine (eds.), Gérer les territoires, les patrimoines et les crises, forthcoming Clermont-Ferrand 2012, 417-431.

'Sullanus and Sullani', Arctos 46 (2012), 187-191.

'Costantino nella storiografia italiana su Roma', in A. Melloni (ed.), Costantino I. Enciclopedia Costantiniana sulla figura e l'immagine dell'imperatore del cosiddetto Editto di Milano 313-2013, III, Rome 2013, 263-281.

'The Romanisation of Italy. New Work and New Problems', in A. Rubel (ed.), Imperium und Romanisierung. Neue Forschungsansaetze aus Ost und West zu Ausuebung, Transformation und Akzeptanz von Herrschaft im Roemischen Reich, Konstanz 2013, 27-36.

 Edition of R. Syme, 'Tacite et Proust', Histos 7 (2013), 128-145 ('Editorial Note', 128-130).

 'Priestly auctoritas in the Roman Republic', Classical Quarterly 63 (2013), 743-763. 

‘Uno ‘storico di battaglie’: lo stile di Gaetano De Sanctis’, in A. Giavatto-F. Santangelo (eds.), La retorica e la scienza dell’antico. Lo stile dei classicisti italiani nel Ventesimo secolo, Heidelberg 2013, 34-70.

‘An unfinished book by Ronald Syme: The Triumph of Caesarism’, Quaderni di storia 79 (2014), 5-31.

‘I feziali tra rituale, diplomazia e tradizioni inventate’, in G. Urso (ed.), Sacerdos. Figure del sacro nella società romana, Pisa 2014, 83-103.

(with J. H. Richardson), ‘Introduction’, in J. H. Richardson-F. Santangelo (eds.), The Roman Historical Tradition. Regal and Republican Rome, Oxford 2014, 1-15.

‘Roman Politics in the 70s B.C.: a Story of Realignments?’, Journal of Roman Studies 104 (2014), 1-27.

 ‘«Voler capire tutto». Appunti sullo stile di Sebastiano Timpanaro’, Anabases 20 (2014), 49-67.

'Sempre poco allineati: il decennio dopo Silla’, in R. Cristofoli-A. Galimberti-F. Rohr Vio (eds.), Lo spazio del non-allineamento a Roma fra Tarda Repubblica e Primo Principato. Forme e figure dell’opposizione politica, Rome 2014, 1-23.

'Saturnia regna revisited', in J. H. Richardson and F. Santangelo (eds.), Andreas Alfoeldi in the Twenty-First Century, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2015, 131-151.

'Testing Boundaries: Divination and Prophecy in Lucan', Greece and Rome 62 (2015) 177-88.

‘Performing Passions, Negotiating Survival: Italian Cities in the Late Republican Civil Wars’, in H. Börm-M. Mattheis-J. Wienand (eds.), Civil War in Ancient Greece and Rome. Contexts of Disintegration and Reintegration, Stuttgart 2016, 127-148.

(with E. M. A. Bissa) ‘Introduction’, in E. M. A. Bissa-F. Santangelo (eds.), Studies on Wealth in the Ancient World (BICS Supplement 133), London: School of Advanced Study 2016, 1-6.

‘Le élites locali e il centro del potere nell’Italia dei Flavi’, in L. Capogrossi Colognesi, E. Lo Cascio and E. Tassi Scandone (eds.), L’Italia dei Flavi, Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2016, 57-86.

‘Caesar’s Aims in Northeast Italy’, Papers of the British School at Rome 84 (2016), 101-129.

‘Vico e i Gracchi’, Vichiana 53 (2016), 201-205.

‘Editor’s Introduction’ and ‘Bibliographical Addenda’, in R. Syme, Approaching the Roman Revolution. Papers on Republican History, ed. F. Santangelo, Oxford 2016, 1-15, 339-382.

‘Enduring Arguments: Priestly Expertise in the Early Principate’, Transactions of the American Philological Association 146 (2016) 349-376.

‘Documenti in Posidonio’, in G. Ottone (ed.), Historiai para doxan. Documenti greci in frammenti: nuove prospettive esegetiche (Themata 19), Tivoli: Tored, 2017, 69-84.

‘Inquadramento storico’, ‘La guerra civile’ and ‘Vespasiano: il rapporto con la città’, in L. Passi Pitcher et al. (eds.), Amoenissimis… aedificiis. Gli scavi di Piazza Marconi a Cremona. Volume I: lo scavo (Studi e ricerche di archeologia 4), Mantova: SAP, 2017, 25-37, 65-68, 81-86.

(with J. Rüpke) ‘Public priests and religious innovation in imperial Rome’, in R. Gordon-G. Petridou-J. Rüpke (eds.), Beyond Priesthood: Religious Entrepreneurs and Innovators in the Imperial Era (Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten 66), Berlin-New York: de Gruyter, 2017, 15-47.

‘Divination and Profit in the Roman World’, in R. J. Evans (ed.), Prophets and Profits. Ancient Divination and its Reception, London and New York: Routledge, 2017, 76-86.

‘Ettore Ciccotti: l’interventismo di un “solitario”?’, in E. Migliario-L. Polverini (eds.), Gli antichisti italiani e la Grande Guerra, Florence: Le Monnier, 2017, 35-56.

'The Social War', in G. Bradley-G. Farney (eds.), The Peoples of Ancient Italy, Berlin-New York: de Gruyter, 2017, 231-254.

'Fra dramma e politica: aspetti della fortuna moderna dei Gracchi', Politica Antica 7 (2017), 163-188.

'Quaestorii in the Post-Sullan Senate', Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 205 (2018), 247-249.

'Theophanes of Mytilene, Cicero, and Pompey's Inner Circle', in H. van der Blom-C. Gray-C. Steel (eds.), Institutions and Ideology in Republican Rome: Speech, Audience and Decision, Cambridge: CUP, 2018, 128-146.

'Augusto in Plutarco', in S. Segenni (ed.), Augusto dopo il Bimillenario: un bilancio (STUSMA 8), Florence: Le Monnier, 2018, 66-83.

‘La marcia su Roma dell’88 a.C.’, in M. T. Schettino-G. Zecchini (eds.), L’età di Silla/The Age of Sulla, Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2018, 191-204.

‘Writing Mommsen (on M. Buonocore, ed., Lettere di Theodor Mommsen agli Italiani, Città del

Vaticano 2017)’, Anabases 28 (2018), 301-306.

‘The Bodies of Marius and Sulla’, in L. Gagliardi (ed.), Antologia giuridica romanistica ed antiquaria II, Milan: Giuffrè Editore, 2018, 107-115.

‘L’oratoria politica di Enoch Powell’, La Cultura 57 (2019), 87-100.

‘Varrone e i culti egizi’, in A. Bencivenni et al. (eds.), Philobiblos. Scritti in onore di Giovanni Geraci, Napoli: Jouvence, 2019, 423-437.

‘Da Vibo a Vercelli? Valerio Valentino e la lex Tappula’, in M. Maiuro et al (eds.), Uomini istituzioni mercati. Studi di storia per Elio Lo Cascio, Bari: Edipuglia, 2019, 139-148.

‘Ambizione e potere fra antico e moderno’ [on E. Gentile, Il capo e la folla, Rome-Bari 2016], Mediterraneo Antico 21 (2018), 309-314.

‘Plutarch and the Late Republican Civil Wars’, in C. Lange-F. Vervaet (eds.), The Historiography of Late Republican Civil War, Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2019, 320-350.

‘Municipal Men in the Age of the Civil Wars’, in K.-J. Hölkeskamp, S. Karatas and R. E. Roth (eds.), Empire, Hegemony or Anarchy? Rome and Italy, c. 200-30 BC., Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2019, 237-258.

‘Afterword: With Gods on the Their Side, Home and Away’, in J. Rüpke, Peace and War in Rome. A Religious Construction of Warfare, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2019, 279-308.

‘Prodigies in the Early Principate?’, in L. Driediger Murphy-E. Eidinow (eds.), Ancient Divination and Experience, Oxford: OUP, 2019, 154-177.

‘Sulla in the Bellum Jugurthinum’, in A. Eckert and A. Thein (eds.), Sulla Felix: Politics and Reception, Berlin and Boston: de Gruyter, 2019, 107-124.

‘Pietas y guerra civil’, Auster 24 (2019), 9-26.

‘Italic Ceres?’, in E. Bispham-D. Miano (eds.), Gods and Goddesses in Ancient Italy, London and New York: Routledge, 2019, 9-22.

(with Lorenzo Calvelli), ‘A New Journal: Contents, Methods, Perspectives’, History of Classical Scholarship 1 (2019), i-iv.

‘La monotonia delle parole d’ordine. Catchwords e cultura politica nella tarda Repubblica romana’, FuturoClassico 6 (2020), 43-63.

‘Patterns of Advancement, Demotion, and Frustration in Late Republican Italy’, in M. Aberson et al. (eds.), Nos sumus Romani qui fuimus ante… Memory of Ancient Italy, Berlin: Peter Lang, 2020, 53-65.

‘Ettore Ciccotti e le origini di Orazio’, in A. Pagliara (ed.), Antichistica italiana e leggi razziali, Parma: Athenaeum Edizioni Universitarie, 2020, 31-47.

‘Roman Senate and Civic Territories’, in F. Luciani and E. Migliario (eds.), Boundaries of Territories and Peoples in Roman Italy and Beyond, Bari: Edipuglia, 2019, 45-61.

(with Claudia Beltrão da Rosa) ‘Introduction’, in C. Beltrão da Rosa and F. Santangelo (eds.), Cicero and Roman Religion. Eight Studies, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2020, 9-22.

‘Cicero on Divine and Human Foresight’, in C. Beltrão da Rosa and F. Santangelo (eds.), Cicero and Roman Religion. Eight Studies, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag 2020, 105-116.

‘Marius and Sulla’, in R. Scodel (ed.), Oxford Bibliographies in Classics, Oxford and New York: OUP 2020 [DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780195389661-0352].

‘Sallust and the Annalists from Manuzio to Peter’, in Y. Lehmann-M. Essaidi-A. Baudou (eds.), L'Historiographie romaine. Morphologie, thématiques et postérité d'un genre littéraire. Hommages à Martine Chassignet (Recherches sur les Rhétoriques Religieuses 33), Turnhout: Brepols, 2020, 197-213.

(with Claudia Beltrão), ‘Apresentação’, in C. Beltrão and F. Santangelo (eds.), Estátuas na religião romana, Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2020, 11-18.

‘Text and Practice in Roman Divination: Five Themes for a Comparative Debate’, Quaderni del Ramo d’Oro On-line 12 (2020), 155-175.

‘L’espansione dell’Italia a Roma (a proposito di N. Terrenato, The Early Roman Expansion into Italy. Elite Negotiation and Family Agendas)’, Ostraka 29 (2020), 153-158.

‘Between Caesarism and Cosmopolitanism: Julius Caesar as an Historical Problem in Gramsci’, in E. Zucchetti-A. M. Cimino (eds.), Antonio Gramsci and the Ancient World, London and New York: Routledge, 2021, 201-221.

‘Politics of Gratitude: a Note on Cic. Phil. 7.23’, Lexis 39 (2021), 131-136.

‘Introduzione’ and ‘Nota bibliografica’, in Appiani Bellorum Civilium Liber Primus. Introduzione, testo critico e commento con traduzione e indici, a cura di E. Gabba, Biblioteca di «Athenaeum» 67, Bari: Edipuglia, 2021, 7-10, 513-538.

'Gli orizzonti intellettuali dei notabili italici. Vent’anni dopo Les magistrats des cités italiennes’, in M. L. Caldelli-N. Laubry-F. Zevi (eds.), Ostia, l'Italia e il Mediterraneo. Intorno all’opera di Mireille Cébeillac-Gervasoni, Rome: École Française de Rome, 2021, 237-245.

‘Introduction’, in E. Ciccotti, La civiltà del mondo antico (HCS Supplementary Volumes 2), Newcastle upon Tyne and Venice: History of Classical Scholarship, 2021, 1-13.

(with Claudia Beltrão), ‘Immagini religiose nel mondo romano. Nove saggi’, Mythos. Rivista di Storia delle Religioni 15 (2021), 4-8.

‘Storia romana, storia globale?’, Quaderni di storia 95 (2021), 305-310.

‘The Crisis of the Roman Republic: Historiographical Soundings’, Cahiers du Centre Gustave-Glotz 31 (2020) [publ. 2022], 175-192.

‘An Avenger in Pliny (NH 2.241 and 35.14)’, Museum Helveticum 79 (2022), 78-81.

‘The Crisis of the Roman Republic. Archaeology of a Concept’, Historika 11 (2021) [publ. 2022], 301-478.

(with Manfredi Zanin), ‘Napoleone e l’Antico. Introduzione’, FuturoClassico 8 (2022), 1-5.

‘Napoleon and Ancient Rome: the Models of the Republic and the Empire, 1779-1815’, FuturoClassico 8 (2022), 86-115.

‘Silla e le comunità italiche (91-83 a.C.)’, in A. Vanni Desideri (ed.), Le periferie e il centro. Studi di storia ed epigrafia dell’Italia romana, Fucecchio: Edizioni dell’Erba, 2022, 39-56.

‘Introduction. Whence and Whither?’, in M. Balbo and F. Santangelo (eds.), A Community in Transition. Rome between the Hannibalic War and the Gracchi, Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 2023, 1-20.

‘Beyond Conservatism: Charting Roman Religion between Hannibal and Scipio Nasica’, in M. Balbo and F. Santangelo (eds.), A Community in Transition. Rome between the Hannibalic War and the Gracchi, Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 2023, 301-338.

(with W. Eck and K. Vössing) ‘A Book for Tony Birley’, in W. Eck-F. Santangelo-K. Vössing (eds.), Emperor, Army, and Society. Studies in Roman Imperial History for Anthony R. Birley (Antiquitas 1.77), Bonn: Habelt Verlag, 2022, IX-XIII.

‘Hadrian’s libri vitae suae: Two Problems’, in Eck-Santangelo-Vössing (eds.), Emperor, Army, and Society, Bonn: Habelt Verlag, 2022, 363-370.

‘Bringing Sophistopolis into History’, Index 50 (2022), 57-63.

‘Inconspicuous Yet Significant? The Aedileship in the Last Generation of the Roman Republic’, in P. Buongiorno-M. T. Schettino (eds.), Poteri pubblici, conflitti istituzionali e cultura politica dopo Silla, Macerata: EUM, 2023, 145-164.

(with Katherine East) ‘Ancient Gods and Enlightenment Theories of Idolatry: John Toland’s Third Letter to Serena’, in I. G. Mastrorosa (ed.), Regards croisés sur la Rome ancienne et les Lumières, Paris: Garnier, 2023, 147-169.

‘Piety and Civil War’, in H. Börm-U. Gotter-W. Havener (eds.), A Culture of Civil War? Bellum civile and Political Communication in Late Republican Rome (Heidelberger Althistorische Beiträge und Epigraphische Studien 65), Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2023, 225-243 (revised version of no. 79).

‘Ettore Lepore e il pensiero politico della tarda Repubblica romana’, in press in E. Federico et al. (eds.), Ettore Lepore, la storia antica. Eredità, attualità, prospettive, Bari: Edipuglia, 371-382.

‘‘Non-political Classes’ between Republic and Principate: Historiography and History’, Studi storici 64 (2023), 715-733.

‘Revelation and Roman Augury’, in E. G. Simonetti-C. Hall (eds.), Divination and Revelation in Later Antiquity, Cambridge: CUP, 2023, 179-190.

(with Agustín Moreno) ‘Introducción al dossier: “Lecturas historiográficas sobre la romanización”’, Anuario de la Escuela de Historia Virtual 14 (2023), 1-12.

‘Historiografías de la romanización: el caso de Italia’, Anuario de la Escuela de Historia Virtual 14 (2023), 60-75.

‘Età regia e repubblicana’, in G. Traina (ed.), Le fonti della storia antica, Bologna: Il Mulino, 2023, 269-321.

‘Caesarism in Ancient Rome?’, Ancient History Bulletin 37 (2023), 151-164.

(with Fabrizio Oppedisano and Paola S. Salvatori) ‘Nuove ricerche su fascismo e Roma antica’, in F. Oppedisano-P. S. Salvatori-F. Santangelo (eds.), Costruire la nuova Italia. Miti di Roma e fascismo, Rome: Viella, 2023, 7-18.

‘Le “realtà del potere” a Roma: due punti di vista’, FuturoClassico 9 (2023), 152-162.

‘Italy in a Global Context: 270-49 BCE’, in M. Maiuro (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Pre-Roman Italy, Oxford: OUP, 2024, 507-529.

‘Carlo Sigonio e la storia romana’, in C. Sigonio, Il regime giuridico dei cittadini romani (HCS Supplementary Volume 6), Newcastle upon Tyne-Venice: History of Classical Scholarship, 2024, i-xiii.

‘Sulla and the Italian Communities (91-83 BCE)’, in L. Cappelletti and S. Pittia (eds.), L’Italie entre déchirements et réconciliations: revisiter la guerre sociale (91-88 av. J.-Chr.) et ses lendemains, Besançon: Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2024, 105-124.

‘Falso queritur… L’accesso alla conoscenza nel Bellum Iugurthinum di Sallustio’, Revue des Études Anciennes 126 (2024), 197-210.

‘Les Antiquisants et Fernand Braudel’, in C. Bur (ed.), L'Antiquité après l'Antiquité : un héritage en partage (Scripta receptoria 29), Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions, 2024, 173-190.

(with David García Domínguez and Juan García González) ‘Introduction: Recentring the Late Republican Civil Wars’, in D. García Domínguez, J. García González and F. Santangelo (eds.), Connected Histories of the Roman Civil Wars (88-30 BCE) (Roman Relations 1), Berlin and Boston: de Gruyter, 2024, 1-21.

‘180 BCE: Mass Deportation and the Order of Roman Italy’, Acta Classica 67 (2024), 135-162.

‘Fra personalità e strutture: la biografia in Storia romana, oggi’, in F. Cau and F. Usai (eds.), Biografia e storia. Sguardi sul mondo antico (Quaderni 17), Trento: Università degli Studi di Trento, 2024, 81-90.

‘First-Rate Gladiators: Suetonius, Divus Julius 26, 2-3’, Rheinisches Museum 167 (2024), 419-422.

‘Il Ferrero di Piero Treves’, FuturoClassico 10 (2024), 275-286.

‘The cursus honorum from Biondo to Mommsen’, in F. Pina Polo (ed.), Cursus honorum: Pathways to Rank and Power in the Roman Republic (Libera Res Publica 14), Zaragoza-Seville: EUS-PUZ, 2025, 17-36.




 

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Undergraduate Teaching, 2020/21

The Roman World from Romulus to Heraclius, CAH1014

Greek and Roman Religion, CAH2020

The Fall of the Roman Republic, CAH3033 (module leader)

Portfolio in Ancient History I, CAH2009

Portfolio in Ancient History II, CAH3000

 

 

Postgraduate Teaching, 2020/21

The Writing of History, CAC8011 (module leader) 


 

 


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