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This companion explores the discipline of Roman prosopography from a wide variety of perspectives. The study of people and their relationships and connections, both as individuals and groups, lies at the heart of research into Roman society and politics. The essays in this volume constitute an up-to-date guide to the practice and applications of Roman prosopography. Part I covers the history of the field from the Renaissance to the Digital Age, while Part II outlines important methodologies and approaches. Part III, which is divided between the Republic, Principate and Late Antiquity, comprises eighteen chapters on key sources, themes and debates.
Price: $163.00
Pages: 566
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Brill's Companions to Classical Studies
Publication Date:
11 December 2025
ISBN: 9789004748576
Format: Hardcover
Marietta Horster holds the Chair in Ancient History at Johannes-Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany. She is director of Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum and has published on Roman administration, prosopography and epigraphy and co-edited inter alia the volume The Impact of the Roman Empire on Landscapes (Brill, 2022).
Richard Flower is Professor of Classics and Late Antiquity at the University of Exeter, UK. He co-directed the Connecting Late Antiquities digital prosopography project and has published several books including Emperors and Bishops in Late Roman Invective (2013) and the Cambridge Companion to Christian Heresy (2025).
Frédéric Hurlet holds the Chair in Roman History at Université Paris Nanterre, France. He published on Augustus and the government of the Roman Empire and edited the volume Honores et officia (Libera Res Publica, 2023). His current research project examines the Fasti of magistrates during the Triumviral and Augustan periods.
Ralph W. Mathisen is Professor of History, Classics and Medieval Studies, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA. He studies prosopography, numismatics, barbarians, computer applications, and Late Antiquity. He is founding editor of the Journal of Late Antiquity and editor of Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity.
Contributors are: Bertrand Augier, Thibaud Lanfranchi, Sylvain Destephen, Uwe Walter, Marta Szada, John Bradley, Antony Álvarez Melero, Tuomo Nuorluoto, Julia Hillner, Máirín MacCarron, Petra Heřmánková, Francisca Feraudi-Gruénais, Frank Grieshaber, Federico Santangelo, Gianpaolo Urso, Karl-Joachim Hölkeskamp, Francisco Pina Polo, Christian Rollinger, Christer Bruun, Bradley Jones, Jonathan Edmondson, Milagros Navarro Caballero, Rada Varga, Victoria Leonard, Robert Wiśniewski, Gavin Kelly, Giulia Marolla, Matthias Gassman, Michael Kulikowski.
Richard Flower is Professor of Classics and Late Antiquity at the University of Exeter, UK. He co-directed the Connecting Late Antiquities digital prosopography project and has published several books including Emperors and Bishops in Late Roman Invective (2013) and the Cambridge Companion to Christian Heresy (2025).
Frédéric Hurlet holds the Chair in Roman History at Université Paris Nanterre, France. He published on Augustus and the government of the Roman Empire and edited the volume Honores et officia (Libera Res Publica, 2023). His current research project examines the Fasti of magistrates during the Triumviral and Augustan periods.
Ralph W. Mathisen is Professor of History, Classics and Medieval Studies, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA. He studies prosopography, numismatics, barbarians, computer applications, and Late Antiquity. He is founding editor of the Journal of Late Antiquity and editor of Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity.
Contributors are: Bertrand Augier, Thibaud Lanfranchi, Sylvain Destephen, Uwe Walter, Marta Szada, John Bradley, Antony Álvarez Melero, Tuomo Nuorluoto, Julia Hillner, Máirín MacCarron, Petra Heřmánková, Francisca Feraudi-Gruénais, Frank Grieshaber, Federico Santangelo, Gianpaolo Urso, Karl-Joachim Hölkeskamp, Francisco Pina Polo, Christian Rollinger, Christer Bruun, Bradley Jones, Jonathan Edmondson, Milagros Navarro Caballero, Rada Varga, Victoria Leonard, Robert Wiśniewski, Gavin Kelly, Giulia Marolla, Matthias Gassman, Michael Kulikowski.