Noam Rytwo

Noam’s doctoral project explores the concept and practice of compromise in the Roman politics of the Late Republic and Early Principate. His thesis examines the language and symbolism used to depict or refer to instances of compromise in literary, epigraphic, and numismatic evidence to account for the various attitudes of the Romans towards political compromises, different negotiation processes, and the creation and maintenance of political coalitions. His research aims to understand if and in what ways the decline of the Roman Republic, its transition to a Principate, and the consolidation of this new form of government saw changes in the practice and theory of compromise, as well as the relation between the two, specifically in the internal political sphere. 

PhD

Supervisor: Professor Valentina Arena (Primary Supervisor), Dr Benet Salway (Subsidiary Supervisor), and Dr Samuel Zeitlin (Subsidiary Supervisor)
Working title: The Concept of Compromise in the Roman Political Culture
Expected completion date: 2027

Scholarships and Prizes

• UCL Research Excellence Scholarship (since 2023)
• The Paedagogica Scholarship, History Department, Tel-Aviv University (2019)

Conference Papers and Seminars 

• November 2024, “Simulator ac Dissimulator: The Literary Role of Sejanus in the Annales of Tacitus”, Multus hinc ipso sermo de Tacito: Tacitus and the Paths of History, School of Arts and Humanities, U. Lisbon
• 2023, “Firmarent velut foedus (Tac. Ann. 6.30): The Language of Compromise in Rome”, The 51st Annual Conference of the Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies (ISPCS)
• 2022, “Nondum tecum in gratiam redii (Suet. Tib. 61.5): Reconciliation and Compromise in the Tiberian Reign of Terror”, The Art of Reconciliation in Classical Antiquity, University of Cyprus
• 2021, “The Image of Sejanus: Simulatio et Dissimulatio in Tacitus”, Disguises and Distractions: Duality and Commentary in Antiquity, Country-wide graduate students conference, Tel Aviv University
• 2020, “The Lost Votes of the Aventine: The Meaning of Sejanus’ Improba Comitia on the Aventine”, Oxford-Tel Aviv Graduate Programme in the Study of Antiquity (“Text and Object in the Study of Antiquity”)
• 2019, “Becoming a God: The Social Function of Deification in Rome during the Early Principate”, Oxford-Tel Aviv Graduate Programme in the Study of Antiquity (“Religion and society in Antiquity”)
• 2018, “Sejanus’ Fall: The Reasons behind the Execution of the Second Most Powerful Man in the Roman Empire under Tiberius”, Seminar for graduate students in antique studies, Tel Aviv University

Publications 

Forthcoming, “Nondum tecum in gratiam redii (Suet. Tib. 61.5): Reconciliation and Compromise in the Tiberian Reign of Terror”, in M. T. Dinter and G. Evangelou (eds.), Reconciliation in the late Republic and early Empire, Trends in Classic Supplementary Volumes, De Gruyter

Other professional activities 

• 2021-2023, Research and editor assistant, Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae (CIIP), A multi-lingual corpus of the inscriptions from Alexander to Muhammad, vol. 7, De Gruyter, Forthcoming
• 2019, Index, bibliographical, and footnotes editing in Finkelberg, M., Price J.J., and Shahar, Y. (eds.), Rome: An Empire of Many Nations: New Perspectives on Ethnic Diversity and Cultural Identity, Cambridge University Press, 2021
• 2019, Index, bibliographical, and footnotes editing in Price, J.J. and Berthelot, K. (eds.), The Future of Rome: Roman, Greek, Jewish and Christian Perspectives, Cambridge University Press, 2020

For more information, visit Noam’s RPS Profile.

Email: noam.rytwo.23@ucl.ac.uk

Qualifications

• MA Ancient History, Tel-Aviv University, 2022, magna cum laude
• BA History and Philosophy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2017, magna cum laude