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Mythology, storytelling, Classical folklore, etymology

Roman antiquarianism, Roman ethnic identity, ideology and rhetoric, ancient bilingualism, linguistic relations in ancient Italy.

History of Archaeology; History of Collections; Roman Sculpture; Christian Iconography

Greek Religion and Identity, Maritime History

I am an environmental archaeologist with particular expertise in historical ecology and palaeolandscape reconstruction. My current work integrates the literary record on early Rome with geoarchaeological evidence, in order to produce an environmental and topographical reconstruction of Rome’s river valley. I have been involved in several archaeological excavations and surveys, most recently in Rome. As director of the Forum Boarium Project, I have conducted a coring survey of the city’s original river harbour and harbour sanctuary. Among other findings, my research is revealing new insights on the role of environmental stress—in particular frequent flooding and rapid sedimentation in the river valley—on Rome’s urbanization process, as well as the scale of landscape change that occurred alongside urban development.

I also serve as Director of the Centre for Ancient Environmental Studies: https://caes.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/

Cultural responses to the Persian Wards, Ancient and modern literary and artistic responses to armed conflict

Greek literature (tragedy, Hellenistic literature, especially epigram); literature and gender; classical myth; reception studies; myth in popular culture.

Greek & Latin epigraphy, Roman economic history, tradesmen / artisans

Roman history: Provincial and principate, epigraphy

political, religious and social history of ancient Greece
Citizenship in Archaic and Classical Greece

Greek history and historiography. Athenian strategoi. Strategemata.

Roman history, domestic space, Pompeii and the Bay of Naples, history of excavations

Graffiti, Pompeii, Roman History and epigraphy