Mr Nicholas Purcell MA FBA

Fellow, St John's College
CUF Lecturer in Ancient History, Faculty of Classics

St John's College
Oxford,
OX1 3JP

Tel: (01865) 277353

nicholas.purcell@sjc.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: '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.

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