Prof. Nicholas Purcell MA FBA

CUF Lecturer in Ancient History, Faculty of Classics

Brasenose College
Oxford,
OX1 4AJ

nicholas.purcell@bnc.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests

Roman Social, Economic and Cultural History, City of Rome; Mediterranean Sea and its History

Selected Recent Publications

2000: 'The Corrupting Sea: a Study of Mediterranean History' (with P. Horden), Oxford, B.H. Blackwell, 761.
2003: 'The way we used to eat: diet, community and history at Rome', AJP 124.3 (September 2003), 329-358.
2003: 'Becoming historical: the Roman case', in David Braund and Christopher Gill, eds., Myth, History and Culture in Republican Rome: Sudies in Honour of T.P.Wiseman , University of Exeter Press, Exeter 2003, 12-40.
2005: ‘Romans in the Roman world’, in K. Galinsky, ed., The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Augustus, Cambridge, 85-105.
2005: 'Statics and dynamics: ancient Mediterranean urbanism', in B.Cunliffe and R.Osborne, eds., Mediterranean Urbanization 800-600 B.C., London, 249-72.
2005: 'Colonization and Mediterranean History' in H.Hurst and S.Owen, edd., Ancient Colonizations: analogies, similarity and differences, London (Duckworth), 115-39.
2006: ‘Orientalizing: five historical questions’, in C. Riva and N. Vella, eds., Debating ancient Orientalization: multidisciplinary approaches to change in the ancient Mediterranean, Equinox Monographs in Mediterranean Archaeology, London, volume 10, 21-30.
2006: ‘The Mediterranean and “the New Thalassology"' (with Peregrine Horden), AHR, 111.3 (June 2006), 722-40.
2007: ‘The horti of Rome and the landscape of property’, in Res bene gestae: ricerche di storia urbana su Roma antica in onore di Eva Margareta Steinby, Festschrift M. Steinby, Rome, 361-78.

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