Dr Lewis Webb

Many thanks!

Thanks so much, Lea! We are grateful for your wonderful contribution (with Tom) on 'Contested Memories: Scipionic and Gracchan matronae'.

Please do let me know if you are interested in a copy of the Introduction or my chapter on 'Female Visibility and Regulations in Republican Rome'. @awaws.org @resaustrales.bsky.social @womenknowhistory.bsky.social
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Carsten Hjort Lange, Ash Finn, Lien Van Geel, Kathryn Welch, Carol Scott, and Judith Peller Hallett.

Thanks also to @universitypress.cambridge.org (especially Michael Sharp), the University of Gothenburg, @glasgow.ac.uk, @ox.ac.uk, and @vetenskapsradet.bsky.social for all their support.

Table of contents: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/women-wealth-and-power-in-the-roman-republic/E613853DA10FBBD8B5F03697E255582F

Table of contents: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/women-wealth-and-power-in-the-roman-republic/E613853DA10FBBD8B5F03697E255582F

Many thanks to our wonderful contributors, including Kit Morrell, @lordscribonius.bsky.social, Harriet Flower, Peter Keegan, Bronwyn Hopwood, Francesca Rohr Vio, Alessandra Valentini, Giulia Vettori, Carolyn Tobin, @leabeness.bsky.social, Tom Hillard, Christiane Kunst, Christian Hjorth Bagger,

Cover image for edited volume 'Women, Wealth and Power in the Roman Republic'. Depicts detail of a gilt bronze statue of a Roman woman. Pergola, Italy. c. 70-30 BCE.

Book description: In the Roman Republic, elite women were legally permitted to control substantial assets – and many demonstrably were in direct control of their wealth. They were also the mothers, wives and daughters of the politicians who built Rome's empire and, in a time of high mortality, could find themselves running households that did not contain adult men. This volume explores the political and social consequences of elite female wealth. It combines case studies of individual women, such as Licinia, wife of C. Gracchus, Mucia Tertia, Fulvia and Octavia Minor, with broader surveys of the institutional frameworks and social conventions that constrained and enabled women's wealth and its consequences. The book contributes to the recent upsurge of interest in re-evaluating the role of women in Republican Rome and will be invaluable for scholars and students alike.

Catherine Steel and I are thrilled to announce the publication of our edited volume 'Women, Wealth and Power in the Roman Republic': www.cambridge.org/core/books/w...
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Many thanks! :)

That’s so generous, Sandy! It was lovely to study Classics with you.

Nice to share the screen with you both :).

Honoured to share the screen with fabulous scholars like Peta Greenfield, Shushma Malik, and Fiona Radford, as well as other luminaries like Corey Brennan, Kathleen Coleman, and Jerry Toner.

Excited to share that I am one of the ‘talking heads’ for the National Geographic series ‘Gladiators: Warriors of the Ancient World’. The series airs on National Geographic TV (US), but the first episode is on YouTube: youtu.be/9ssD7rNNv88?... #AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #BlueSkyClassics

Multas gratias tibi!

Many thanks, Peter. I’m really glad research on Roman women is firmly in the spotlight!

Many thanks, that's very kind of you! :)

Thanks, Ben, that's very kind!

For those interested in the article: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... Please do let me know by DM or email (lewis.webb@gu.se) if you would like a copy.

Multas gratias to my dear friends and colleagues who generously read drafts, to Harriet Flower and Josiah Osgood for their editorial encouragement and feedback, to Amy Richlin, Amy Russell, and Kathryn Welch for inspiring the study, and to my Doktormutter Ida Östenberg for her constant support.

I am deeply honoured that the American Journal of Philology awarded my article 'Spectatissima femina: Female visibility and religion in urban spaces in Republican Rome' the AJP Best Article Prize for 2024.

Citation: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

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My pleasure!

I work on Roman drama, in which female speech is often characterized by terms of endearment and diminutives. So you might want to look at gendered speech too.

Diminutives and terms of endearment appear frequently in drama. On AG diminutives: www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1... and doi.org/10.1075/slcs... On terms of endearment: library.oapen.org/handle/20.50..., onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/..., and onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

I can envision caps, t-shirts, mugs…

This thanks to @lewismarkwebb.bsky.social who demonstrated that drunk women just love fomenting conspiracies!

To this list of dramatic drinking terms should be added COMPOTRIX, a female drinking companion (Ter. Andr. 232). A key member of any good party (or conspiracy!). #AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky

A real pleasure to host a panel with Dr Sara Borrello on ‘Coniuratio muliebris: Women, conspiracies, and memory in Ancient Rome’ at the 16th CCC in Coimbra. Details: drive.google.com/drive/folder... #AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky

As if Livy or his /exemplary/ history were apolitical…

Thank you so much, Sissel! Lovely to be back in Scandinavia.

Thank you so much, Hannah! I am very glad to have some time to think and write.

Thank you so much!

Thanks so much Ellie. I recognize how fortunate I am in this job climate. I hope I can do my best for others now.