M.A., Ph.D. Cambridge

Associate Professor, Department of History/Division of Humanities, York University

Editor, Phoenix, the Journal of the Classical Association of Canada.

Visiting Professor, Centre Ausonius and Department of History, Universit* de Michel de Montaigne -- Bordeaux III in February/March 1999.

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Society, economy and culture of Roman Spain (especially Lusitania) from the late Iron Age to the late Roman Empire; Roman epigraphy, especially of the Roman Empire; Gladiators in Roman society; and Greco-Roman historiography, especially Cassius Dio. Professor Edmondson is currently working on cultural interaction and cultural change in the western Roman Empire (especially Lusitania), funerary inscriptions of Augusta Emerita (M*rida, Spain), onomastics of Roman Olisipo (Lisbon) and territory, and gladiators in Roman society.

TEACHING INTERESTS

(Graduate): Roman social history; western provinces of the Roman Empire (esp. Spain); Roman spectacle

(Undergraduate): Roman history (Republic, Early Empire)

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

Dio: The Julio-Claudians. Selections from Books 58-63 of The Roman History of Cassius Dio (Translation with introduction and historical commentary) (LACTOR, 15). London: London Association of Classical Teachers, 1992

Two Industries in Roman Lusitania: Mining and Garum Production (B.A.R. International Series, 362). Oxford, 1987

ARTICLES

"Epigraphy and history of Roman Hispania: the new edition of CIL II," Journal of Roman Archaeology 12 (1999). Forthcoming.

"The cultural politics of public spectacle in Rome and the Greek East, 167-166 BCE," in B. Bergmann & C. Kondoleon (ed.), The Art of Ancient Spectacle. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art. Forthcoming.

"Roman Mining," in S. Hornblower and A.J.S. Spawforth (eds.). Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization. Oxford: Clarendon, 1998.

"Two dedications to Divus Augustus and Diva Augusta from Augusta Emerita and the early development of the imperial cult in Lusitania re-examined," Madrider Mitteilungen 38 (1997) 89-105.

"Metallurgy, Roman" and "Mines and Mining, Roman," in Oxford Classical Dictionary (3rd ed.), Oxford: Clarendon, 1996, 966, 984-85.

"Dynamic arenas: gladiatorial presentations in the city of Rome and the construction of Roman society during the Early Empire," in W.J. Slater (ed.), Roman Theater and Society. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1996, 69-112

"Roman power and the emergence of provincial administration in Lusitania during the Republic," in E. Hermon (ed.), Pouvoir et Imperium. L'exercice du pouvoir et l'administration provinciale dans l'Empire romain republicain Naples: Jovene & Quebec: Univ. Laval. 1996, 163-211

"Specula urbis Romae: a group of marble funerary stelae with arch and rosettes from Augusta Emerita," Anas: Revista del Museo Nacional de Arte Romano 6 (1993) [1995] 9-49

"Creating a provincial landscape: Roman imperialism and rural change in Lusitania," Studia Historica: Historia antigua 10-11 (1992-93) [1994], reprinted in J.-G. Gorges and M. Salinas de Frias (ed.), Les campagnes de Lusitanie romaine. Madrid: Casa de Vel¦zquez, 1997, 13-30

"Instrumenta imperii: Law and imperialism in Republican Rome," in B. Halpern & D. Hobson (ed.), Law, Society and Politics in the Ancient Mediterranean World. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1993, 156-92

"Romanization and urban development in Lusitania," in T.F.C. Blagg & M. Millett (ed.), The Early Roman Empire in the West. Oxford: Oxbow, 1990, 151-78

"Le garum en Lusitanie urbaine et rurale: hi*rarchies de demande et de production," in J.-G. Gorges (ed.), Les villes de Lusitanie romaine: hi*rarchies et territoires. Paris: C.N.R.S., 1990, 123-47

"Mining in the later Roman Empire and beyond: continuity or disruption?," Journal of Roman Studies 79 (1989) 84-102

"Mithras at Pax Iulia: a re-examination," Conimbriga 23 (1984) 69-83