My doctoral project explores the socio-historical importance of names in Italy from the early Republic to the Social War. My thesis seeks to make a contribution to three questions: how to understand the role of name in the context of Roman/Italian family and kinship, how Italian names reflected complex identities and various changes in the formation of Roman Italy, and how names interacted with the everyday life of Italians in this period.
I am grateful to the China Oxford Scholarship Fund, especially to my benefactors Mrs Araceli Keelan and the late Mr Brian Keelan.
