Books by Virginia L . Campbell
Pocket Museum: Ancient Rome brings together nearly 200 of the finest and most significant artifac... more Pocket Museum: Ancient Rome brings together nearly 200 of the finest and most significant artifacts preserved in museums today—many of which could never be seen side by side—which serve to illustrate the social and cultural history of ancient Rome. These objects tell the story of the origin of the Roman state (Latium) from the Early Iron Age cultures of Etruria and the pseudo-historical “period of the kings” (753–509 BCE), through to the end of the Late Empire in the West in 476 CE. Over a period of more than 1,000 years, Roman culture evolved administratively, socially, and politically, with many elements still recognizable in the sociopolitical infrastructure of the modern Western world.
Richly illustrated with detailed photographs of every object, the informative text reveals how each artifact is a key object in its own right—a creation that commemorates a great event or heralds the start of a new era in creativity or politics. From coins of the fifth century BCE to pottery made at the time of the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 CE, all the objects reveal an important insight into this highly influential ancient civilization.
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From Document to History: Epigraphic Insights into the Greco-Roman World, 2019
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Open Arts Journal, 2021
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Epigraphica, 2016
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Tyche 27: 93-111, Feb 4, 2012
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Leidschrift, 2016
The city of Pompeii is at once both entirely typical of an ancient Roman city and entirely unique... more The city of Pompeii is at once both entirely typical of an ancient Roman city and entirely unique – not just because of its destruction and preservation – but because every town, every city, as much as it is representative of the time and culture in which it originates, has its own development, characteristics, and composition. As such, studying any aspect of life in Pompeii both informs the historian of daily life in the Roman world, and of the idiosyncrasies and facets that make Pompeii Pompeii. One feature of Pompeii that makes it function in such a way is the abundant writing found on the walls of the city – whether carved monumentally, painted professionally, or scratched by an idle passer-by – that allows an examination of the city in a way that is nearly impossible for any other place.
It is this material that allows a new methodology to be applied to the city – social network analysis. Using the inscriptions, it is possible to map the way individuals are connected to each other, how certain parts of daily life function, and to what extent certain families dominated civic, political or religious life. It is the interaction between politics and religion that will be the focus of this paper: a number of elite families (particularly in the Augustan period) appear to provide a large number of magistrates (male) and priestesses (female). This paper will use SNA to map connections between magistrates and known religious representatives in order to determine whether or not this link was a normative approach to maintaining power amongst elite families.
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Athenaeum: 103/1: 177-195, 2015
This article offers an assessment of the evidence for one Pompeian family, the Calventii, who off... more This article offers an assessment of the evidence for one Pompeian family, the Calventii, who offer a good example of some of the difficulties present in reconstructing a family network from a variety of material. The existence of a monumental tomb with inscription and a large amount of electoral dipinti naming members of the Calventii have led to some scholarly interest in this family, in particular, because of the apparent adoption of Gaius Calventius Sittius Magnus. The evidence available previously has not been handled in a holistic fashion, overlooking
problems in attributing many of the dipinti to a specific individual, or indeed, to only one gens. Using the funerary and electoral evidence for the Calventii in conjunction with the evidence for
the birth family of the Sittii allows a more careful analysis of the connections between the known individuals, dates for their activities, and the possible identification of additional members of the extended family groups.
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Tyche, 2012
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Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 174: 229-236., 2010
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Tyche , 2010
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Arctos , 2009
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Arctos, 2008
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Journal of Roman Studies, 2020
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BMCR, 2021
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The Classical Review, Apr 2016
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Bryn Mawr Classical Review, Jun 2015
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Bryn Mawr Classical Review, Sep 2013
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Journal of Hellenic Studies 133: 277-279., 2013
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American Journal of Archaeology, Oct 2012
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Books by Virginia L . Campbell
Richly illustrated with detailed photographs of every object, the informative text reveals how each artifact is a key object in its own right—a creation that commemorates a great event or heralds the start of a new era in creativity or politics. From coins of the fifth century BCE to pottery made at the time of the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 CE, all the objects reveal an important insight into this highly influential ancient civilization.
Edited Volumes by Virginia L . Campbell
Papers by Virginia L . Campbell
It is this material that allows a new methodology to be applied to the city – social network analysis. Using the inscriptions, it is possible to map the way individuals are connected to each other, how certain parts of daily life function, and to what extent certain families dominated civic, political or religious life. It is the interaction between politics and religion that will be the focus of this paper: a number of elite families (particularly in the Augustan period) appear to provide a large number of magistrates (male) and priestesses (female). This paper will use SNA to map connections between magistrates and known religious representatives in order to determine whether or not this link was a normative approach to maintaining power amongst elite families.
problems in attributing many of the dipinti to a specific individual, or indeed, to only one gens. Using the funerary and electoral evidence for the Calventii in conjunction with the evidence for
the birth family of the Sittii allows a more careful analysis of the connections between the known individuals, dates for their activities, and the possible identification of additional members of the extended family groups.
Book Reviews by Virginia L . Campbell
Richly illustrated with detailed photographs of every object, the informative text reveals how each artifact is a key object in its own right—a creation that commemorates a great event or heralds the start of a new era in creativity or politics. From coins of the fifth century BCE to pottery made at the time of the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 CE, all the objects reveal an important insight into this highly influential ancient civilization.
It is this material that allows a new methodology to be applied to the city – social network analysis. Using the inscriptions, it is possible to map the way individuals are connected to each other, how certain parts of daily life function, and to what extent certain families dominated civic, political or religious life. It is the interaction between politics and religion that will be the focus of this paper: a number of elite families (particularly in the Augustan period) appear to provide a large number of magistrates (male) and priestesses (female). This paper will use SNA to map connections between magistrates and known religious representatives in order to determine whether or not this link was a normative approach to maintaining power amongst elite families.
problems in attributing many of the dipinti to a specific individual, or indeed, to only one gens. Using the funerary and electoral evidence for the Calventii in conjunction with the evidence for
the birth family of the Sittii allows a more careful analysis of the connections between the known individuals, dates for their activities, and the possible identification of additional members of the extended family groups.
Women in Ancient Cultures aims to unite ground-breaking research from all fields of ancient world studies, publishing research that pertains to all aspects of women’s lives in the ancient world, and to the dynamics and modalities of female agency under, and against, oppressive conditions - patriarchal, heterosexist, and otherwise.
The series is aimed predominantly at an academic and educational audience, and will publish both single-author monographs and edited collections on women from all ancient world cultures. The series aims to publish academic research on all regions of the ancient world: the Mediterranean and ancient Near East, as well as other contemporary ancient cultures, including, but not limited to, those from continental and Eastern Europe, Britain, Africa, Central and Eastern Asia, Oceania and the Americas. The chronological range spans from 4000 BCE to 800 CE; studies that go beyond these dates will be considered, especially reception studies, as long as the main body of the research belongs within these date ranges.
Proposals are warmly invited for the series; please contact Clare Litt, the Commissioning Editor: clare.litt@liverpool.ac.uk
Series Editors:
Virginia Campbell, Independent Researcher
Amy Gansell, St John’s University
Gregory Gilles, King’s College London
Irene Salvo, University of Exeter
Rebecca Usherwood, Trinity College Dublin
Lewis Webb, University of Gothenburg
Editorial Board:
Marta Ameri, Colby College
Solange Ashby, University of Chicago
Erin Walcek Averett, Creighton University
Lea Beness, Macquarie University
Sandra Boehringer, Université de Strasbourg
Benjamin Cartlidge, University of Oxford
Hsiao-wen Cheng, University of Pennsylvania
Eleri Cousins, Lancaster University
Walter Crist, Maastricht University
Al Duncan, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Paul du Plessis, University of Edinburgh
Abigail Graham, Warwick University & Institute of Classical Studies, London
Judith P. Hallett, University of Maryland
Emily Hauser, University of Exeter
Emily Hemelrijk, University of Amsterdam
Tom Hillard, Macquarie University
Julia Hillner, University of Sheffield
Bret Hinsch, Fo Guang University
Owen Hodkinson, University of Leeds
Rosemary Joyce, University of California, Berkeley
Ariadne Konstantinou, Bar-Ilan University
Victoria Leonard, Royal Holloway, University of London
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, Cardiff University
Consuelo Manetta, University of Exeter
Nandini Pandey, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Christine Plastow, The Open University
Christian Rollinger, Trier University
Kathryn Welch, The University of Sydney
Social network analysis (SNA) is a methodology utilised in sociology and anthropology as a means to map and measure the relationships, interactions and connections between people who form part of a group or community. Network theory is based on the idea that an individual’s actions in life depend, in part, on how that individual is tied into a larger web of social connections, and that the success or failure of the society as a whole can be determined by the patterns of their internal structure. Using these measures allows the analyst to distinguish between the primary connectors, the core members who bridge the links of the community between various clusters, and those who are isolated or on the periphery of the network. Developing this type of map of a community not only allows the larger network to be analysed, but also allows smaller connections and groups to be examined, such as those organising and participating in games, thus providing a detailed understanding of how a community functions socially. The application of SNA to the ancient world is an emerging area of research in the discipline of Classics and Ancient History, making use of the epigraphic and textual evidence that survives to develop a clearer understanding of how particular ancient communities functioned.
In Pompeii, the extant texts not only demonstrate the importance of the ludi in local life – as indeed it appears to have been a requirement of magisterial duties (CIL X 829) – but also connect the activities in Pompeii to the wider region. Texts tie Pompeii and its gladiators and game-givers to the neighbouring cities of Nola, Nuceria, Puteoli, Herculaneum, Cumae, and Cales as well as the gladiatorial school in Capua. By applying network theory to the texts from Pompeii and other towns, I will demonstrate the connected nature of the civic centres of Campania through those involved in the ludi.