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Name Emma Dench
Position Professor
Institutional Affiliation Harvard University
Latitude 42.3770029
Longitude -71.1188488
Research Interests

Roman Republican and early Imperial history; questions of identity in the ancient world; Roman imperialism; ancient Italy; the making of the Roman past

Websites https://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/emma-dench; https://scholar.harvard.edu/edench
Publications

"Publications:
Books (single-authored monographs)
Romulus’ Asylum: Roman Identities from the Age of Alexander to the Age of Hadrian
(Oxford, Oxford University Press, June 2005). Pp. i-x + 1-441.
From Barbarians to New Men: Greek, Roman, and Modern Perceptions of Peoples from
the Central Apennines (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1995). Pp. i-xiii+1-255.
In preparation:
Imperialism and Culture in the Roman World (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press;
expected submission date: July 2016)
Articles
‘The scope of ancient ethnography’. In E. Almagor and J. Skinner (eds.), Ancient
Ethnography: New Approaches (2013)
‘Ten articles for the Virgil Encyclopedia (Blackwell, Oxford), on topics ranging from
‘Aborigines’ to ‘Imperialism’ (100-2000 words) (2013)
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Cicero and Roman Identity’. In C. Steel (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Cicero
(Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2013)
‘Roman imperial pasts’. In S. Benoist, A. Daguet-Gagey, C. Hoët-van Cauwenberghe
(eds.), Figures d’empire, fragments de mémoire: pouvoirs et identités dans le monde
romain imperial (IIe s. av. n. è. – VI s. de n. è.) (2011), 487-502.
‘Identity’. In A. Barchiesi and W. Scheidel (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Roman
Studies (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2010), 266-280.
‘The Roman historians and twentieth-century approaches to Roman history’. In A.
Feldherr (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Historians (Cambridge, 2009),
394-406.
‘People without history: Roman historiography and the Italic past’. In M. Osanna (ed.),
Verso la città. Forme insediative in Lucania e nel mondo italico fra IV e III sec. a.C.
(Venosa, 2009), 25-28.
‘Ethnography and History’. In J. Marincola (ed.), A Companion to Greek and Roman
Historiography (Oxford, 2007), 493-503
Fifteen articles for the Cambridge Dictionary of Classical Civilization, the subjects of
which range from ‘ethnicity and race’ to ‘Battle of Marathon’ and ‘eunuchs’ (Cambridge,
2006)
‘Samnites in English: the legacy of E.Togo Salmon in the English-speaking world’. In H.
Jones (ed.), Samnium. Settlement and Cultural Change. The Proceedings of the third E.
Togo Salmon conference on Roman studies. (Archaeologia Transatlantica 22, 2004), 7-
22.
‘Domination’. In G. Woolf (ed.), Cambridge Illustrated History of the Roman World
(Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003), 108-137.
‘Beyond Greeks and Barbarians: Italy and Sicily in the Hellenistic Age’. In A. Erskine
(ed.), A Companion to the Hellenistic World (Oxford, Blackwell Publishing, 2003), 294-
310.
‘Austerity, Excess, Success and Failure in Hellenistic and early Imperial Italy’. In M.
Wyke (ed.), Parchments of Gender: Deciphering the Bodies of Antiquity (Oxford,
Clarendon Press 1998), 121-56.
‘Sacred Springs to the Social War: Myths of origins and questions of identity in the
central Apennines’. In T. Cornell and K. Lomas (eds.), Gender and Ethnicity in Ancient
Italy (London. Accordia Research Institute, 1997), 43-51.
‘Images of Italian Austerity from Cato to Tacitus’. In M. Cébeillac-Gervasoni (ed.), Les
Elites municipales de l’Italie péninsulaire des Gracques à Néron. (Naples and Rome,
Centre Jean Bérard and Ecole française de Rome, 1996), 247-54
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‘The archaeology of central and southern Roman Italy: recent trends and approaches’,
Journal of Roman Studies 86, 1996, 170-89 (with E. Curti and J.R. Patterson)
‘Europa e gli studi sul Sannio’. In Safinim: i Sanniti: vicende, ricerche, contributi
(Isernia, Cosmo Iannone, 1993), 81-83.
Forthcoming:
‘Ethnicity and Culture and the Second Sophistic’. In W. Johnson and D. Richter (eds.),
Oxford Companion to the Second Sophistic (submitted August 2013)
‘Culture and Ethnic Identity in the Mediterranean World’. In C. Champion and A.
Eckstein (eds.), Landmark Edition of the Histories of Polybius (submitted October 2011)
Book Reviews and Review Articles:
Dexter Hoyos (ed.), A Companion to Roman Imperialism. In Sehepunkte June 2014.
‘The Bad Julias’. In London Review of Books vol. 35, no. 9, 9 May 2013: 31-2 [essay on
Roman childhood]
‘Diplomatic appeals of kinship with the Romans’. In Journal of Roman Archaeology 24,
2011: 545-49 [essay on F. Battistoni, Parenti dei Romani. Mito troiano e diplomazia]
‘Atimetus got me pregnant’. In London Review of Books vol. 33, no. 4: 17 February
2011: 27-8 [essay on Jerry Toner, Popular Culture in Ancient Rome.]
‘When Rome Conquered Italy’. In London Review of Books vol. 23, no. 4: 25 February
2010: 25-6 [essay on A. Wallace-Hadrill, Rome’s Culture Revolution.]
N. Rosenstein and R. Morstein-Marx (eds.), Blackwell Companion to the Roman
Republic. In New England Classical Journal vol. 35, 2, May 2008: 148-151.
C. Hallett, The Roman Nude. In Art History 29: 5, 2006, 926-31
J. Williams, Beyond the Rubicon. In Ancient West and East 51, 2006, 374-6
J. Hall, Hellenicity: between Ethnicity and Culture. In The Classical Review 55, 2005,
204-7.
H. Flower (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Republic and R. MorsteinMarx,
Mass Oratory and Political Power in the Late Roman Republic. In: The Times
Literary Supplement, December 24-31, 2004
R. MacMullen, Romanization in the Time of Augustus. In The Classical Review 53,
2003, 1, 163-4
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S. Keay and N. Terrenato (eds.), Italy and the West; Comparative Issues in
Romanization. In The Journal of Roman Studies 93, 2003, 327-9.
J. D. Chaplin, Livy’s Exemplary History. In The Classical Review 52, 2002, 2, 300-02
I. Romeo, Ingenuus Leo. L’immagine di Agrippa. In The Classical Review 51, 2001, 2,
334-5
J.M. Hall, Ethnic Identity in Greek Antiquity. In The Classical Review 50, 2000, 1, 210-
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J. Rabinowitz, The Rotting Goddess. The origin of the witch in Classical Antiquity’s
demonization of fertility religion and F. Graf, Magic in the Ancient World. In The
Classical Review 49, 1999, 2, 398-9
B. Rawson and P. Weaver (eds.), The Roman family in Italy: Status, sentiment, space. In
History Today, March 1, 1998.
R.A. Gurval, Actium and Augustus. The politics and emotions of civil war; In The
Classical Review 48, 1998, 2, 398-9.
S.P. Oakley, The Hill-Forts of the Samnites and G. Schneider-Herrmann, The Samnites of
the Fourth Century BC and G. Tagliamonte, I Sanniti: Caudini, Irpini, Pentri, Carricini,
Frentani. In American Journal of Archaeology 102, 1998, 441-3.
G. Schneider-Herrmann, The Samnites of the Fourth Century BC. In The Journal of
Roman Studies 88, 1998, 190.
T. J. Cornell, The Beginnings of Rome. Italy and Rome from the bronze age to the Punic
Wars. In The Journal of Roman Studies. 87, 1997, 269-71.
C. Barton, The Sorrows of the Ancient Romans: the gladiator and the monster. In
Europa 1, 2, 1994, 204-6.
E.S. Gruen, Studies in Greek culture and Roman policy. In The Journal of Roman
Studies 81, 1991, 90-1.
Forthcoming:
T. S. Luke, Ushering in a New Republic. In Classical Review 66, 1, April 2016. "
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