Myles Lavan
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1196674 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Myles Lavan |
| NOMBRES | Myles |
| APELLIDO | Lavan |
| FIRMA | LAVAN M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of St Andrews |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8290-7893 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 66 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2010 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Thinking with Slavery
The title of this chapter requires some explanation. Our subject is not thinking about slavery—that is, abstract intellectual reflection on the matter. By ‘thinking with slavery’, we mean the much more widespread use of slavery as an analogy or metaphor to think about other relationships or conditions. This chapter explores the use of slavery as an analogy or metaphor to think about other kinds of relationship or condition in Greco-Roman culture,…
Latin Literature and Roman History
This chapter offers a perspective on Latin literature from the neighbouring field of Roman history. It discusses what appears to be a growing intellectual divide between the two fields, a divergence that is surprising given the increased focus on the politics of literature among Latinists. The essay also offers some suggestions for bridging the gap.I suggest that Latinists could take a much broader view of the structures of power in which Latin t…
The Cambridge Critical Guide to Latin Literature
The Cambridge Critical Guide to Latin Literature offers a critical overview of work on Latin literature. Where are we? How did we get here? Where to next? Fifteen commissioned chapters, along with an extensive introduction and Mary Beard's postscript, approach these questions from a range of angles. They aim not to codify the field, but to give snapshots of the discipline from different perspectives, and to offer provocations for future developme…
Eingegangene Bücher
Capital in the Roman Empire
The Uncertain Past
Historians constantly wrestle with uncertainty, never more so than when attempting quantification, yet the field has given little attention to the nature of uncertainty and strategies for managing it. This volume proposes a powerful new approach to uncertainty in ancient history, drawing on techniques widely used in the social and natural sciences. It shows how probability-based techniques used to manage uncertainty about the future or the presen…
Uncertain Past
Roman and Local Citizenship in the Long Second Century CE
This volume offers a radical new history of Roman citizenship in the long century before Caracalla’s universal grant of citizenship in 212 CE. Earlier work portrayed the privileges of citizen status in this period as eroded by its wide diffusion. Building on recent scholarship that has revised downward estimates for the spread of citizenship, this work investigates the continuing significance of Roman citizenship in the domains of law, economics,…
Citizenship, Enfranchisement and Honour in Cassius Dio
This paper re-evaluates Dio’s famous passing reference to Caracalla’s universal grant of citizenship by recontextualizing it within Dio’s larger narrative. Dio was the first historian to see the spread of Roman citizenship as we do – as a progressive expansion culminating in universal citizenship. Dio’s treatment of the topic of enfranchisement repeatedly returns to the question of whether an exclusive citizenship distorts or affirms the natural …
Quantifying the spread of Roman citizenship in the province of Asia in the second century CE
Beyond Romans and Others
This chapter aims to spur reflection on the categories we use to analyse how second-century texts negotiate questions of identity and difference. The first half compares modern and ancient usage of the category ‘Romans’. Modern scholarship often deploys the category ‘Romans’ in a manner that assumes both that its content is self-evident and that a distinction between ‘Romans’ and ‘non-Romans’ was one of the most salient divisions within the popul…
Devastation
This paper explores how the violence that Roman forces deployed against enemy and rebel populations was represented in Roman culture. Although the imperial elite did not think that they engaged in mass destruction widely or indiscriminately, they regarded the capacity to destroy human populations and their landscapes as an essential aspect of Roman power. Long after the period of rapid expansion in the late Republic, a language of erasure (verbs …
The manpower of the Roman fleets
The fleets are often neglected in consideration of the military forces of the Roman empire – indeed, some estimates of military strength have ignored them completely. 1 Even more egregious is their omission in discussions of the rôle of the army in disseminating Roman citizenship, since the soldiers serving in the fleets benefitted from the same system of regular grants as did auxiliaries. When the fleets are included in inventories of the milita…
Gender Bias and the Journal of Roman Studies
Reflecting on present unease about structural biases in the discipline, and aiming to offer a data-rich response to some recent criticisms of this Journal , the Editorial Board has undertaken a study of the representation of female scholars in the Journal of Roman Studies . To that end, we have gathered data on publications, submissions and JRS Editorial Board membership for the past fifteen years, from Volume 95 (2005) through to the present vol…
The Army and the Spread of Roman Citizenship
This paper draws on recent advances in our knowledge (much of it owed to the proliferation of military diplomas) and a new analytical method to quantify the number of soldiers and their children who received Roman citizenship between 14 and 212 c.e. Although significant uncertainties remain, these can be quantified and turn out to be small relative to the overall scale of enfranchisement. The paper begins by reviewing what is known about grants o…
Epistemic Uncertainty, Subjective Probability, and Ancient History
The subjective interpretation of probability-increasingly influential in other fields-makes probability a useful tool of historical analysis. It provides a framework that can accommodate the significant epistemic uncertainty involved in estimating historical quantities, especially (but not only) regarding periods for which we have limited data. Conceptualizing uncertainty in terms of probability distributions is a useful discipline because it for…
Peace and empire
This chapter explores the intimate connection between the idea of peace and imperialist politics in the Roman empire. It focuses instead on the cognate verb pacare and past participle pacatus, usually translated as 'pacify' and 'pacified' respectively and taken to exemplify the equation of pax with subjugation in the external sphere. The tropes of 'peace-making' are a familiar feature of the discourse of pax, but they have received little analysi…
Cosmopolitanism and Empire
The Spread of Roman Citizenship, 14-212 ce
This paper borrows an analytical method from the sciences to solve an important problem in Roman history, which has long seemed intractable: estimating the proportion of provincials who had Roman citizenship before Caracalla’s general grant of 212/213 ce. The scale of enfranchisement in the early empire has important ramifications for our understanding of the significance of Roman citizenship in that period and the impact of Caracalla’s grant. Ye…
The Empire in the Age of Nero
"Empire" is a word which refers to both the monarchic system instituted by Augustus and the vast territory conquered and ruled by Rome ("the Roman Empire"). To understand the structures of power in which Neronian literature is embedded, one needs to consider not only the relationship between the emperor and the Roman elite but also their collective implication in the subjection of the provinces to Roman rule. If the relationship between emperor a…
Slaves to Rome
This study in the language of Roman imperialism provides a provocative new perspective on the Roman imperial project. It highlights the prominence of the language of mastery and slavery in Roman descriptions of the conquest and subjection of the provinces. More broadly, it explores how Roman writers turn to paradigmatic modes of dependency familiar from everyday life - not just slavery but also clientage and childhood - in order to describe their…
Florus and Dio on the Enslavement of the Provinces
This paper draws attention to the unprecedented prominence of metaphors of enslavement to Rome in the historical narratives of Florus and Cassius Dio. Following an analysis of the thematic importance of the trope in their respective works, I point to further parallels in Herodian and Justin which suggest that the trope proved particularly productive in both Latin and Greek historiography in the late second and early third centuries CE. The end of…
Slavishness in Britain and Rome in Tacitus' Agricola
Peer reviewed
Nox Philologiae
BOOK REVIEWS/COMPTES RENDUS 451 "less only than Catullus" (uno sed tibi sim minor Catullo, 10.78.16). Mattiacci discusses both poems that explicitly mention Catullus (to whom Martial refers about twenty times) and epigrams that allude to his poetry. A particularly amusing example is Ep. 1.7, in which Martial pronounces Stella's "Dove" bigger than Catullus' "Sparrow": Stellae delictum mei columba, /Verona licetaudiente dicam, /vicit, Maxime,passer…
The Spread of Roman Citizenship, 14-212 ce
This paper borrows an analytical method from the sciences to solve an important problem in Roman history, which has long seemed intractable: estimating the proportion of provincials who had Roman citizenship before Caracalla’s general grant of 212/213 ce. The scale of enfranchisement in the early empire has important ramifications for our understanding of the significance of Roman citizenship in that period and the impact of Caracalla’s grant. Ye…
Slavishness in Britain and Rome in Tacitus' Agricola
Peer reviewed
The Army and the Spread of Roman Citizenship
This paper draws on recent advances in our knowledge (much of it owed to the proliferation of military diplomas) and a new analytical method to quantify the number of soldiers and their children who received Roman citizenship between 14 and 212 c.e. Although significant uncertainties remain, these can be quantified and turn out to be small relative to the overall scale of enfranchisement. The paper begins by reviewing what is known about grants o…
Florus and Dio on the Enslavement of the Provinces
This paper draws attention to the unprecedented prominence of metaphors of enslavement to Rome in the historical narratives of Florus and Cassius Dio. Following an analysis of the thematic importance of the trope in their respective works, I point to further parallels in Herodian and Justin which suggest that the trope proved particularly productive in both Latin and Greek historiography in the late second and early third centuries CE. The end of…
Roman and Local Citizenship in the Long Second Century CE
This volume offers a radical new history of Roman citizenship in the long century before Caracalla’s universal grant of citizenship in 212 CE. Earlier work portrayed the privileges of citizen status in this period as eroded by its wide diffusion. Building on recent scholarship that has revised downward estimates for the spread of citizenship, this work investigates the continuing significance of Roman citizenship in the domains of law, economics,…
Gender Bias and the Journal of Roman Studies
Reflecting on present unease about structural biases in the discipline, and aiming to offer a data-rich response to some recent criticisms of this Journal , the Editorial Board has undertaken a study of the representation of female scholars in the Journal of Roman Studies . To that end, we have gathered data on publications, submissions and JRS Editorial Board membership for the past fifteen years, from Volume 95 (2005) through to the present vol…
Epistemic Uncertainty, Subjective Probability, and Ancient History
The subjective interpretation of probability-increasingly influential in other fields-makes probability a useful tool of historical analysis. It provides a framework that can accommodate the significant epistemic uncertainty involved in estimating historical quantities, especially (but not only) regarding periods for which we have limited data. Conceptualizing uncertainty in terms of probability distributions is a useful discipline because it for…
Nox Philologiae
BOOK REVIEWS/COMPTES RENDUS 451 "less only than Catullus" (uno sed tibi sim minor Catullo, 10.78.16). Mattiacci discusses both poems that explicitly mention Catullus (to whom Martial refers about twenty times) and epigrams that allude to his poetry. A particularly amusing example is Ep. 1.7, in which Martial pronounces Stella's "Dove" bigger than Catullus' "Sparrow": Stellae delictum mei columba, /Verona licetaudiente dicam, /vicit, Maxime,passer…
Slavishness in Britain and Rome in Tacitus' Agricola
Peer reviewed
The Empire in the Age of Nero
"Empire" is a word which refers to both the monarchic system instituted by Augustus and the vast territory conquered and ruled by Rome ("the Roman Empire"). To understand the structures of power in which Neronian literature is embedded, one needs to consider not only the relationship between the emperor and the Roman elite but also their collective implication in the subjection of the provinces to Roman rule. If the relationship between emperor a…
Slaves to Rome
This study in the language of Roman imperialism provides a provocative new perspective on the Roman imperial project. It highlights the prominence of the language of mastery and slavery in Roman descriptions of the conquest and subjection of the provinces. More broadly, it explores how Roman writers turn to paradigmatic modes of dependency familiar from everyday life - not just slavery but also clientage and childhood - in order to describe their…
Florus and Dio on the Enslavement of the Provinces
This paper draws attention to the unprecedented prominence of metaphors of enslavement to Rome in the historical narratives of Florus and Cassius Dio. Following an analysis of the thematic importance of the trope in their respective works, I point to further parallels in Herodian and Justin which suggest that the trope proved particularly productive in both Latin and Greek historiography in the late second and early third centuries CE. The end of…
Cosmopolitanism and Empire
The Spread of Roman Citizenship, 14-212 ce
This paper borrows an analytical method from the sciences to solve an important problem in Roman history, which has long seemed intractable: estimating the proportion of provincials who had Roman citizenship before Caracalla’s general grant of 212/213 ce. The scale of enfranchisement in the early empire has important ramifications for our understanding of the significance of Roman citizenship in that period and the impact of Caracalla’s grant. Ye…
Peace and empire
This chapter explores the intimate connection between the idea of peace and imperialist politics in the Roman empire. It focuses instead on the cognate verb pacare and past participle pacatus, usually translated as 'pacify' and 'pacified' respectively and taken to exemplify the equation of pax with subjugation in the external sphere. The tropes of 'peace-making' are a familiar feature of the discourse of pax, but they have received little analysi…
The manpower of the Roman fleets
The fleets are often neglected in consideration of the military forces of the Roman empire – indeed, some estimates of military strength have ignored them completely. 1 Even more egregious is their omission in discussions of the rôle of the army in disseminating Roman citizenship, since the soldiers serving in the fleets benefitted from the same system of regular grants as did auxiliaries. When the fleets are included in inventories of the milita…
Gender Bias and the Journal of Roman Studies
Reflecting on present unease about structural biases in the discipline, and aiming to offer a data-rich response to some recent criticisms of this Journal , the Editorial Board has undertaken a study of the representation of female scholars in the Journal of Roman Studies . To that end, we have gathered data on publications, submissions and JRS Editorial Board membership for the past fifteen years, from Volume 95 (2005) through to the present vol…
The Army and the Spread of Roman Citizenship
This paper draws on recent advances in our knowledge (much of it owed to the proliferation of military diplomas) and a new analytical method to quantify the number of soldiers and their children who received Roman citizenship between 14 and 212 c.e. Although significant uncertainties remain, these can be quantified and turn out to be small relative to the overall scale of enfranchisement. The paper begins by reviewing what is known about grants o…
Epistemic Uncertainty, Subjective Probability, and Ancient History
The subjective interpretation of probability-increasingly influential in other fields-makes probability a useful tool of historical analysis. It provides a framework that can accommodate the significant epistemic uncertainty involved in estimating historical quantities, especially (but not only) regarding periods for which we have limited data. Conceptualizing uncertainty in terms of probability distributions is a useful discipline because it for…
Beyond Romans and Others
This chapter aims to spur reflection on the categories we use to analyse how second-century texts negotiate questions of identity and difference. The first half compares modern and ancient usage of the category ‘Romans’. Modern scholarship often deploys the category ‘Romans’ in a manner that assumes both that its content is self-evident and that a distinction between ‘Romans’ and ‘non-Romans’ was one of the most salient divisions within the popul…
Devastation
This paper explores how the violence that Roman forces deployed against enemy and rebel populations was represented in Roman culture. Although the imperial elite did not think that they engaged in mass destruction widely or indiscriminately, they regarded the capacity to destroy human populations and their landscapes as an essential aspect of Roman power. Long after the period of rapid expansion in the late Republic, a language of erasure (verbs …
Citizenship, Enfranchisement and Honour in Cassius Dio
This paper re-evaluates Dio’s famous passing reference to Caracalla’s universal grant of citizenship by recontextualizing it within Dio’s larger narrative. Dio was the first historian to see the spread of Roman citizenship as we do – as a progressive expansion culminating in universal citizenship. Dio’s treatment of the topic of enfranchisement repeatedly returns to the question of whether an exclusive citizenship distorts or affirms the natural …
Quantifying the spread of Roman citizenship in the province of Asia in the second century CE
Capital in the Roman Empire
The Uncertain Past
Historians constantly wrestle with uncertainty, never more so than when attempting quantification, yet the field has given little attention to the nature of uncertainty and strategies for managing it. This volume proposes a powerful new approach to uncertainty in ancient history, drawing on techniques widely used in the social and natural sciences. It shows how probability-based techniques used to manage uncertainty about the future or the presen…
Uncertain Past
Roman and Local Citizenship in the Long Second Century CE
This volume offers a radical new history of Roman citizenship in the long century before Caracalla’s universal grant of citizenship in 212 CE. Earlier work portrayed the privileges of citizen status in this period as eroded by its wide diffusion. Building on recent scholarship that has revised downward estimates for the spread of citizenship, this work investigates the continuing significance of Roman citizenship in the domains of law, economics,…
Eingegangene Bücher
Latin Literature and Roman History
This chapter offers a perspective on Latin literature from the neighbouring field of Roman history. It discusses what appears to be a growing intellectual divide between the two fields, a divergence that is surprising given the increased focus on the politics of literature among Latinists. The essay also offers some suggestions for bridging the gap.I suggest that Latinists could take a much broader view of the structures of power in which Latin t…
The Cambridge Critical Guide to Latin Literature
The Cambridge Critical Guide to Latin Literature offers a critical overview of work on Latin literature. Where are we? How did we get here? Where to next? Fifteen commissioned chapters, along with an extensive introduction and Mary Beard's postscript, approach these questions from a range of angles. They aim not to codify the field, but to give snapshots of the discipline from different perspectives, and to offer provocations for future developme…
Thinking with Slavery
The title of this chapter requires some explanation. Our subject is not thinking about slavery—that is, abstract intellectual reflection on the matter. By ‘thinking with slavery’, we mean the much more widespread use of slavery as an analogy or metaphor to think about other relationships or conditions. This chapter explores the use of slavery as an analogy or metaphor to think about other kinds of relationship or condition in Greco-Roman culture,…
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