Jonathan Edmondson
| Degrees: | M.A., Ph.D.
University of Cambridge (Classics)
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| Current Position: | Professor
(Department of History/Division of Humanities/Programme in Classical Studies, York University) Director, York University/University of Toronto Collaborative Ph.D. Program in Ancient Greek and Roman History, 2004-6, 2008-10 Associate Member, Graduate Programme
in Classics, University of Toronto |
| Recent Publications: | BOOKS: |
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Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture. Edited with A. Keith. Toronto and Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 2008, 370 pp. Granite
Funerary Stelae from Augusta Emerita (Monografías
Emeritenses 9). Mérida: Museo Nacional de Arte Romano /
Madrid: Ministerio de Cultura, 2006 [published February 2007].
303 pp. Atlas Antroponímico de la Lusitania romana (joint-author as part of the Grupo Mérida). Mérida: Fundación de Estudios Romanos and Bordeaux: Centre Ausonius, 2003 [2004]. Imagen y Memoria. Monumentos funerarios con retratos en la colonia Augusta Emerita (main author, with contributions by T. Nogales Basarrate and W. Trillmich) (Monografías Emeritenses 6; Real Academia de la Historia: Bibliotheca Archaeologica Hispana 10). Madrid: Real Academia de la Historia, 2001. Law and Social Status in Classical Athens. Edited with Virginia J. Hunter. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2000. 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: “Un enterramiento de incineración con estela de granito fechado en el s. I d.C. documentado en el entorno viario del Circo romano de Augusta Emerita” (joint-article with J. Márquez Pérez & P. D. Sánchez Barrero) in Mérida: Excavaciones Arqueológicas 2004 (Memoria 10), Mérida, 2008, 509-521. “Public
Dress and Social Control in Late Republican and Early Imperial
Rome” in J. Edmondson & A. Keith (ed.), Roman
Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture, Toronto: University
of Toronto Press, 2008, 21-46. View
Illustrations “Collaborating between Classics and History in Teaching Ancient History at the Ph.D. level: The University of Toronto-York University Collaborative Programme in Ancient History (COLPAH)”, in “Graduate Training for the Ancient Historian: Or how best to study ancient history in the 21st century?” (2008 Committee on Ancient History panel), Philadelphia: American Philological Assocation, 2008: http://www.apaclassics.org/education/CAH/2008panel.html “The Cult of Mars Augustus and Roman Imperial Power at Augusta Emerita in the Third Century A.D.: A New Votive Dedication” in J. González & T. Nogales Basarrate (ed.), El culto imperial en Hispania romana: política y poder, Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2007, 541-575. “Funerary Inscriptions and the Development of Local Epigraphic Cultures in Roman Lusitania” in Actas del XII Congressus Internationalis Epigraphiae Graecae et Latinae, Barcelona, 2007, I, 461-468. “Cities and urban life in the western provinces of the Roman Empire, 30 BCE to 250 CE”, in D. Potter (ed.), A Companion to the Roman Empire (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World series). Oxford: Blackwell, 2006, 250-280. “Micro- and macro-approaches to the economy of Baetica felix”, Journal of Roman Archaeology 19 (2006) 563-570. “Family life within slave households at Augusta Emerita: the epitaph of the Cordii” Anas 15-16 (2002-2003) [2005] 197-234. “Introduction: Flavius Josephus and Flavian Rome” in J. Edmondson, S. Mason and J. Rives (ed.), Flavius Josephus and Flavian Rome, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, 1-33. “Los monumentos funerarios como espejo de la sociedad emeritense: secretos y problemas socio-familiares a la luz de la epigrafía” in Augusta Emerita: Territorios, espacios, imágenes y gentes en la Lusitania Romana. Mérida/Madrid: Ministerio de Cultura, 2004 [2005], 341-371. “Inmigración y sociedad local en Augusta Emerita” in E. Cerrillo Martín de Cáceres, J.-G. Gorges & T. Nogales Basarrate (ed.), V Mesa Redonda Internacional sobre Lusitania romana: Las comunicaciones, Madrid: Ministerio de Cultura, 2004 [2005], 321-369. “Family relations in Roman Lusitania: social change in a Roman province?” in M. George (ed.), The Roman Family in Italy and Beyond. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, 183-229.“En quête de la famille romaine à la Civitas Igaeditanorum (Idanha-a-Velha) en Lusitanie au Haut-empire”, in C. Auliard & L. Bodiou (ed.), Au jardin des Hespérides. Histoire, société et épigraphie des monde anciens. Mélanges offerts à Alain Tranoy. Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2004, 233-252. “Un Ercavicensis en Augusta Emerita: una nueva estela funeraria de granito”, Mérida: Ciudad y Patrimonio 5 (2001) [2003] 137-142. “Writing Latin in the province of Lusitania”, in A.E. Cooley (ed.), Becoming Roman, Writing Latin? (Journal of Roman Archaeology, Supplement). Portsmouth, R.I., 2002, 41-60. “Public Spectacles and Roman Social Relations” in T. Nogales Basarrate (ed.), Ludi Romani: Espectáculos en Hispania Romana. Madrid. 2002. 21-43. “Les fondements économiques de la puissance des élites hispano-romaines” in M. Navarro Caballero and S. Demougin (ed.), Élites hispaniques. Bordeaux, 2001, 63-68. “Some new granite funerary stelae from Augusta Emerita” in Mérida. Excavaciones arqueológicas. 1999 (Memoria 5). Mérida, 2001, 383-394. “Conmemoración funeraria y relaciones familiares en Augusta Emerita” in J.-G. Gorges & T. Nogales Basarrate (ed.), Sociedad y cultura en Lusitania romana. Mérida, 2000, 299-327. "The cultural politics of public spectacle in Rome and the Greek East, 167-166 B.C." in B. Bergmann and C. Kondoleon (ed.), The Art of Ancient Spectacle. Studies in the History of Art. Washington: National Gallery, 1999, 77-95. "Mining" in G.W. Bowersock, Peter Brown and O. Grabar (ed.), A Guide to the Late Antique World. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999, 579-580. |
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| Papers / Lectures: | “Commodus in the Arena: Myth, Politics and Public Spectacle in late-second century A.D. Rome”. Invited lecture, Concordia University, Montreal, March 2008. “Collaborating between Classics and History in Teaching Ancient History at the Ph.D. level: The University of Toronto-York University Collaborative Programme in Ancient History (COLPAH)”, Invited paper for 2008 Committee on Ancient History panel, “Graduate Training for the Ancient Historian: Or how best to study ancient history in the 21st century?”, Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, Chicago, January 2008. “Les vétérans dans la colonie d’Augusta Emerita (25 av. J.-C. – 100 ap. J.-C)”, invited paper for 7th international Table ronde on Roman Lusitania, Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail, November 2007 (shorter version also given at Annual Meeting of Classical Association of Canada, Université de Montréal, May 2008). “A Tale of Two Colonies: Augusta Emerita (Mérida) and Metellinum (Medellín) in Roman Spain”, paper at international conference, “100 Years of Solitude: Roman Colonies in the first hundred years of their existence”, University of St Andrews, Scotland, September 2007. "Une nouvelle dédicace à Mars Auguste à Emerita et l'administration romaine de la Lusitanie au milieu du IIIe siècle", invited paper at seminar on "Anthropologie et économie du monde romain", Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, June 2007. “New veterans from Augusta Emerita (Mérida, Spain)”, Annual meeting of the Classical Association of Canada, Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland, May 2007. “La integración de los inmigrantes en la sociedad emeritense”, international conference on La sociedad emeritense, Museo Nacional de Arte Romano, February 2007. “The administration of Lusitania in the third century A.D.: new evidence from Augusta Emerita”, paper at Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, San Diego, January 2007. “The Funerary Monuments of Augusta Emerita: epigraphic workshops and their influence in southern Lusitania and northern Baetica”. Invited paper for international conference on “The Epigraphic Habit in the Roman West”, Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik, Munich, November 2006. “Producing Death: The Development of the Gladiator Industry at Rome”. Invited keynote lecture for conference on “The Ties that Bind and Build: Networks of Production in the Ancient Mediterranean”, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, February 2006. “Finis terrae? Marginality in the far west of the Iberian Peninsula”. Invited paper for international conference, “At the Edges of Empire: Interpreting the Marginal Areas of the Roman World”, University of Chicago, February 2006. Organizer and presider of seminar on “Epigraphic Texts and Archaeological Contexts in Rome, Italy and the Western Provinces” for Annual Meeting of American Philological Association, Montreal, January 2006. “Restoring context and meaning to the epitaphs of Augusta Emerita (Mérida, Spain)”, at seminar on “Epigraphic Texts and Archaeological Contexts in Rome, Italy and the Western Provinces” for Annual Meeting of American Philological Association, Montreal, January 2006. “Gladiators at Pompeii”. Invited lecture for Fall Meeting of the Ontario Classical Association on “Roman Italy: Pompeii and Ostia”, McMaster University, October 2005. “New light on the provincial administration of Roman Lusitania: two new texts from Augusta Emerita”. Paper at Work in Progress in Ancient History seminar, University of Toronto, April 2005. “The virginity of Zosimus and other family myths: Terms of affection within and beyond the family in Roman Lusitania”. Invited paper for 6th International Conference on Lusitania, Cascais (Portugal): “Lusitânia entre o mito e a realidade”, November 2004 [shorter version also given at Annual Meeting of Classical Association of Canada, May 2005, Banff]. “Public dress and social control in late Republican and early Imperial Rome”. Paper at international conference, “Roman Dress and the Fabric of Roman Culture”, York University, October 2004 [expanded version of paper given at CAC meeting in Fredericton, May 2003]. “Los monumentos funerarios como espejo de la sociedad emeritense: secretos y problemas socio-familiares a la luz de la epigrafía”. Invited paper for international conference, “Augusta Emerita: Territorios, Espacios, Imágenes, y Gentes en la Lusitania Romana”, Museo Nacional de Arte Romano, Mérida (Spain), June 2004. “Family life within slave households at Augusta Emerita: a new inscription from Mérida (Spain)”. Paper at Annual Meeting of Classical Association of Canada, Quebec, May 2004. “Inaugurating the Colosseum, A.D. 80". Invited lecture for Department of Languages and Linguistics (including Classics), Concordia University, March 2004 and for Toronto chapter of Archaeological Institute of America, February 2004. “Marriage patterns in a Roman
colony: the example of Augusta Emerita (Mérida, Spain)”.
Paper at Annual Conference of American Philological Association,
San Francisco, January 2004. |
| Courses taught recently: | GS/HIST
5036 3.0, The Family in Ancient Rome GS/HIST 5026 3.0, The Roman Empire AS/HIST 4131 6.0, The City of Rome from Augustus to Hadrian AS/HIST 3135 3.0, Spectacle and Society in Ancient Rome AS/ HIST 2100 6.0, Ancient Greece and Rome |
| 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 The Roman family |
| Awards/Grants: | SSHRC Research
Grant, 2007-10 for project, "Religion and Cultural Change in
Roman Lusitania Elected, Corresponding Member, Real Academia de la Historia (the Royal Academy of History of Spain), June 2003 SSHRC Research Grant, 2002-5 for project “Colonial Society in Roman Spain” Classical Association of Canada,
Visiting Lecturer in Atlantic Canada, September/October 2003 |
