History

Emeritus Professor

Office: B21, 24 Gordon Square
External phone: 020 7679 7363
Internal phone: 37363
E-mail: imagines.italicae@sas.ac.uk

I work on ancient economic and monetary history, the history of ancient Italy and Roman law, as well as the Renaissance, where my interests lie in the beginnings of epigraphy and archaeology as sciences. This is reflected in the courses I teach, which include a special subject on the Roman Republic.

Among my publications are Roman statutes (1996), a corpus of legislation passed through the assemblies. I direct, with Benet Salway, the Projet Volterra, with John North, the Festas Project - both funded by the AHRB - and a collaborative project with the Ecole Francaise de Rome on late Roman law. I am a full member of the principal Paris ancient history equipe of the Conseil National de Recherche Scientifique. I have excavated at Fregellae, in Liguria, at Veleia and in Piedmont. I also work closely with the Department of Coins and Medals at the British Museum and am Chair of the Institute of Classical Studies Library Committee. I am currently working on a book on the relations between Italy and Rome from the fourth century BC to Augustus and directing a project of the ICS to publish a collection of photographs of the Roman inscriptions of Italy, starting with a full account of their archaeological and monumental context.

Among my publications are:

- Coinage and money under the Roman Republic: Italy and the Mediterranean economy (1985)
- The Roman Republic (1978)
- 'Italy and Rome from Sulla to Augustus', in A. K. Bowman, E. Champlin & A. W. Lintott eds. Cambridge ancient history, vol. 10 (1996)