Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
Biographic Data
| ID | 1083891 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Wallace-Hadrill |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Wallace-Hadrill |
| SIGNATURE | WALLACE-HADRILL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northeast Catholic College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0979-9205 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 865 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
The Idea of the City in Late Antiquity: A Study in Resilience
The city was one of the central and defining features of the world of the Greek and Roman Mediterranean. Challenging the idea that the ancient city 'declined and fell', Andrew Wallace-Hadrill argues that memories of the past enabled cities to adapt and remain relevant in the changing post-Roman world. In the new kingdoms in Italy, France and Spain cities remained a key part of the structure of control, while to contemporary authors, such as Cassi…
Eingegangene Bücher
Idea of the City in Late Antiquity: A Study in Resilience
Patronage in Ancient Society
William Gell's Pompeii - H. Dessales 2019. Recueils de William Gell. Pompéi publiée et inédite 1801–1829. Paris: Hermann Éditeurs. Pp. 434. ISBN 9791037002129
Patronage in Roman society: From republic to empire
To stand at the door of an upper-class Roman house of the late republic or early empire is already to glimpse something of the centrality of patronage in Roman society. From the threshold a vista opens out, elaborately and symmetrically framed: between the walls of the entrance passage ( fauces ), the sightline passes over the rectangular light-well of the impluvium, its central axis marked by an ornamental marble table, and through the great squ…
Rome and the Colonial City: Rethinking the Grid
The cities of Cassiodorus: The resilience of urban values
A Cultural History of the Home in Antiquity
‘Home’ is a powerful idea throughout antiquity, from Odysseus’ epic journey to recover his own home, nostalgically longed-for through his long absence, to the implanting of Christianity in the domestic sphere in late antiquity. We can recognise the idea even if there is no word for it that quite corresponds to our own: the Greek oikos and the Latin domus mean both house and family, the essential components of home. To attempt a history of ‘the ho…
Inscriptions in Private Spaces
The Hellenistic West: Rethinking the Ancient Mediterranean
Although the Hellenistic period has become increasingly popular in research and teaching in recent years, the western Mediterranean is rarely considered part of the 'Hellenistic world'; instead the cities, peoples and kingdoms of the West are usually only discussed insofar as they relate to Rome. This book contends that the rift between the 'Greek East' and the 'Roman West' is more a product of the traditional separation of Roman and Greek histor…
The Herculaneum Conservation Project: Activities in 2012–13 (Comune di Ercolano, Provincia di Napoli, Regione Campania)
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Ruins and Forgetfulness
This chapter addresses the question of why Herculaneum failed to capture popular imagination. It suggests that the reasons are not merely to do with the relatively small size of the site, but go back to the roots of tourism in the eighteenth century. The submergence of Herculaneum in the popular imagination is due to a series of interconnected factors, as part of a paradigm shift that took place in the 1760s: that it was connected with the depart…
The Roman Imperial Court: Seen And Unseen In The Performance Of Power
Marcus' assertion of continuity was right in more senses than one: it is not just that imperial courts had a generic similarity to other royal courts, but that there were strong ties of historical continuity that linked the Roman court to those of the Hellenistic east after Alexander, and to the Persian court which Alexander's conquests absorbed and incorporated. Beyond Mommsen's influence is an interesting convergence of ideologies, between mode…
Archaeological Fieldwork Reports
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The monumental centre of Herculaneum: In search of the identities of the public buildings
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Archaeology in the shadow of Vesuvius
Archaeological Fieldwork Reports: Archaeological results from the Herculaneum Conservation Project in 2009
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Family and Inheritance in the Augustan Marriage Laws
Archaeological Field-Work Reports: Herculaneum Conservation Project 2006–7
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The Herculaneum Conservation Project: Introduction
This short text places the archaeological site of Herculaneum, Italy and the Herculaneum Conservation Project in context, and introduces the volume of articles on this subject. The author outlines the importance of the site, and the public/private partnership that was launched in order to tackle the problems of decay there
Mutatas Formas: The Augustan Transformation of Roman Knowledge
In nova fert animus mutatas dicere formas/ corpora (“My mind impels me to tell of forms changed to new bodies”; Ovid, Met . 1.1–2) Ovid's extraordinary tour-de-force in representing all of mythology, indeed the whole history of the world from creation to the deification of Caesar, as a seamlessly interconnected series of transformations, offers a vision rooted in contemporary Augustan experience. The transformational skill with which Augustus con…
The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Augustus
The age of Augustus, commonly dated to 30 BC – AD 14, was a pivotal period in world history. A time of tremendous change in Rome, Italy, and throughout the Mediterranean world, many developments were underway when Augustus took charge and a recurring theme is the role that he played in shaping their direction. The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Augustus captures the dynamics and richness of this era by examining important aspects of political …
The Streets of Rome as a Representation of Imperial Power
In vain, great hearted Kublai, shall I attempt to describe Zaira, city of high bastions. I could tell you how many steps make up the streets rising like stairways, and the degrees of the arcades' curves, and what kind of zinc scales cover the roofs; but I already know this would be the same as telling you nothing." (Italo Calvino)2 Rome was a microcosm of Roman imperial power, the showplace of imperial might. The image of the emperor was written …
City and Country in the Ancient World
The ancient Greco-Roman world was a world full of cities: not of cities in the modern sense of massive conglomerations, but in a distinctive sense of communities in which countryside was dominated by urban centre. Interest in the special relationship of town and country in the ancient world goes back to Max Weber and beyond. This volume of papers by archaeologists and historians seeks to bring together the two disciplines in exploring the city-co…
Houses and Society in Pompeii and Herculaneum
Few sources reveal the life of the ancient Romans as vividly as do the houses preserved by the eruption of Vesuvius. Wealthy Romans lavished resources on shaping their surroundings to impress their crowds of visitors. The fashions they set were taken up and imitated by ordinary citizens. In this illustrated book, Andrew Wallace-Hadrill explores the rich potential of the houses of Pompeii and Herculaneum to offer new insights into Roman social lif…
Civilis Princeps: Between Citizen and King
When the emperor Claudius decided, at the instigation of his freedman Pallas, to make a highly unconventional marriage with his niece, he manoeuvred the senate, through the agency of his staunch amicus Vitellius, into passing an 'unsolicited' request that he marry Agrippina. He declared that his hesitations would be overcome if the senate put pressure on him: who was he to resist the will of the community, being but a citizen like the rest? Some …
The Social Structure of the Roman House
LA STRUTTURA SOCIALE DELLA CASA ROMANA L'aristocrazia romana della Tarda Republica e del Primo Impero costruiva e decorava le proprie case in modo così dispendioso non solo per esibire la propria ricchezza con un consumismo così cospicuo ma piuttosto per ottenere un ambiente idoneo a dei precisi modi di vita. Forme e decorazioni architettoniche possono essere interpretate come linguaggio di comunicazione sociale. Le strutture essenziali della cas…
Roman arches and Greek honours: The language of power at Rome
It was decided that a marble arch (Ianus) should be erected in the Circus Flaminius at public expense, positioned by the spot where statues have already been dedicated to Divus Augustus and the Augustan household by G. Norbanus Flaccus, together with gilded images of peoples conquered, and an inscription on the face of that arch stating that the Senate and People of Rome have dedicated this marble monument to the memory of Germanicus Caesar, sinc…
Image and Authority in the Coinage of Augustus
Epictetus speaks: Just as it is not open to the banker or the greengrocer to reject the value of Caesar's coin, but he is obliged, whether he likes it or not, when you offer it, to hand it over for what he has for sale in exchange for it, so it is with the soul. The good on its appearance instantly attracts to itself, the bad repels. The soul will never reject the worth of something with the manifest appearance of goodness, no more than one would…
Patronage in Ancient Society
Suetonius
"Suetonius, a Roman historian, was the author of The Lives of the Caesars one of the most vivid surviving documents of the early Roma empire. His biographies illuminate not only the political history of the twelve rulers from Julius Caesar to Domitian, but also the whole social and cultural world to which these Caesar's belonged. In the first major study of Suetonius in English, Andrew Wallace-Hadrill places the biographer in the context of taste…
The social spread of Roman luxury: Sampling Pompeii and Herculaneum
LA DIFFUSIONE SOCIALE DEL LUSSO NEL MONDO ROMANO: IL CAMPIONE DI POMPEI ED ERCOLANO In quest'articolo si cerca di verificare in rapporto all'evidenza archeologica l'assunto, incontrato in Cicerone e in altre fonti, che il lusso proprio di una élite si diffuse per imitazione nella societá romana. II metodo adottato è quello di esaminare un campione di più di 200 abitazioni a Pompei ed Ercolano mettendo in relazione la loro estensione, l'uso, gli e…
The monumental centre of Herculaneum: In search of the identities of the public buildings
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Rome's Cultural Revolution
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The Herculaneum Conservation Project: Introduction
This short text places the archaeological site of Herculaneum, Italy and the Herculaneum Conservation Project in context, and introduces the volume of articles on this subject. The author outlines the importance of the site, and the public/private partnership that was launched in order to tackle the problems of decay there
Unpeeling Pompeii
Pompeii, recovered from under Vesuvius ash, offers a famous 'frozen moment' in archaeological time: a city as it stood at a certain day. Beyond and beneath the dating evidence visible in its standing buildings is to be found a more archaeological chronology
Ancestor Masks and Aristocratic Power in Roman Culture
A Cultural History of the Home in Antiquity
‘Home’ is a powerful idea throughout antiquity, from Odysseus’ epic journey to recover his own home, nostalgically longed-for through his long absence, to the implanting of Christianity in the domestic sphere in late antiquity. We can recognise the idea even if there is no word for it that quite corresponds to our own: the Greek oikos and the Latin domus mean both house and family, the essential components of home. To attempt a history of ‘the ho…
Timothy William Potter (6 July 1944 – 11 January 2000)
Tim Potter's vigorous and enthusiastic contributions to the School, stretching from his arrival as Rome Scholar in 1966, through his excavations
Towards a history of pre-Roman Pompeii: Excavations beneath the House of Amarantus (I.9.11–12), 1995–8
VERSO UNA STORIA DELLA POMPEI PRE-ROMANA: SCAVI AL DI SOTTO DELLA CASA DI AMARANTO (I.9.11–12), 1995–8 Scavi condotti al di sotto della casa di Amaranto (I.9.11–12) a Pompei hanno prodotto evidenze della più antica occupazione dell'area. Tali ritrovamenti sono discussi nel presente articolo. Con l'eccezione di alcune tracce di presenza preistorica, la sequenza va dal VI al I secolo a.C, quando la casa fu costruita. Un resoconto della sequenza str…
Suetonius as Historian - Jacques Gascou: Suétone historien. (Bibliothèque des Écoles françaises d'Athènes et de Rome, 255.) Pp. xvi + 874. Rome: École française de Rome, 1984 (obtainable from de Bocca…
Suetonius as Historian - Jacques Gascou: Suétone historien. (Bibliothèque des Écoles françaises d'Athènes et de Rome, 255.) Pp. xvi + 874. Rome: École française de Rome, 1984 (obtainable from de Boccard, Paris). - Volume 36 Issue 2
The Golden Age and Sin in Augustan Ideology
THE GOLDEN AGE AND SIN IN AUGUSTAN IDEOLOGY Get access Andrew Wallace-Hadrill Andrew Wallace-Hadrill Magdalene CollegeCambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 95, Issue 1, May 1982, Pages 19–36, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/95.1.19 Published: 01 May 1982
Imperial Rome: A city of immigrants
While it is clear that Rome was both of exceptional size as a city, and had an exceptional number and range of immigrants, it is extraordinarily difficult to have a clear idea either of its absolute size, or its demographic balance between locals and immigrants, citizens and non -citizens, freeborn and freed, slave and free. This paper argues that the impression of precise numbers given for recipients of handouts of grain or cash understates the …
Civilis Princeps: Between Citizen and King
When the emperor Claudius decided, at the instigation of his freedman Pallas, to make a highly unconventional marriage with his niece, he manoeuvred the senate, through the agency of his staunch amicus Vitellius, into passing an 'unsolicited' request that he marry Agrippina. He declared that his hesitations would be overcome if the senate put pressure on him: who was he to resist the will of the community, being but a citizen like the rest? Some …
The Golden Age and Sin in Augustan Ideology
THE GOLDEN AGE AND SIN IN AUGUSTAN IDEOLOGY Get access Andrew Wallace-Hadrill Andrew Wallace-Hadrill Magdalene CollegeCambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 95, Issue 1, May 1982, Pages 19–36, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/95.1.19 Published: 01 May 1982
Ut Pictura Poesis
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Suetonius: The Scholar and His Caesars
Suetonius as Historian - Jacques Gascou: Suétone historien. (Bibliothèque des Écoles françaises d'Athènes et de Rome, 255.) Pp. xvi + 874. Rome: École française de Rome, 1984 (obtainable from de Bocca…
Suetonius as Historian - Jacques Gascou: Suétone historien. (Bibliothèque des Écoles françaises d'Athènes et de Rome, 255.) Pp. xvi + 874. Rome: École française de Rome, 1984 (obtainable from de Boccard, Paris). - Volume 36 Issue 2
Image and Authority in the Coinage of Augustus
Epictetus speaks: Just as it is not open to the banker or the greengrocer to reject the value of Caesar's coin, but he is obliged, whether he likes it or not, when you offer it, to hand it over for what he has for sale in exchange for it, so it is with the soul. The good on its appearance instantly attracts to itself, the bad repels. The soul will never reject the worth of something with the manifest appearance of goodness, no more than one would…
The Social Structure of the Roman House
LA STRUTTURA SOCIALE DELLA CASA ROMANA L'aristocrazia romana della Tarda Republica e del Primo Impero costruiva e decorava le proprie case in modo così dispendioso non solo per esibire la propria ricchezza con un consumismo così cospicuo ma piuttosto per ottenere un ambiente idoneo a dei precisi modi di vita. Forme e decorazioni architettoniche possono essere interpretate come linguaggio di comunicazione sociale. Le strutture essenziali della cas…
Rome's Cultural Revolution
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The social spread of Roman luxury: Sampling Pompeii and Herculaneum
LA DIFFUSIONE SOCIALE DEL LUSSO NEL MONDO ROMANO: IL CAMPIONE DI POMPEI ED ERCOLANO In quest'articolo si cerca di verificare in rapporto all'evidenza archeologica l'assunto, incontrato in Cicerone e in altre fonti, che il lusso proprio di una élite si diffuse per imitazione nella societá romana. II metodo adottato è quello di esaminare un campione di più di 200 abitazioni a Pompei ed Ercolano mettendo in relazione la loro estensione, l'uso, gli e…
Roman arches and Greek honours: The language of power at Rome
It was decided that a marble arch (Ianus) should be erected in the Circus Flaminius at public expense, positioned by the spot where statues have already been dedicated to Divus Augustus and the Augustan household by G. Norbanus Flaccus, together with gilded images of peoples conquered, and an inscription on the face of that arch stating that the Senate and People of Rome have dedicated this marble monument to the memory of Germanicus Caesar, sinc…
City and Country in the Anctent World
Houses and Society in Pompeii and Herculaneum
Few sources reveal the life of the ancient Romans as vividly as do the houses preserved by the eruption of Vesuvius. Wealthy Romans lavished resources on shaping their surroundings to impress their crowds of visitors. The fashions they set were taken up and imitated by ordinary citizens. In this illustrated book, Andrew Wallace-Hadrill explores the rich potential of the houses of Pompeii and Herculaneum to offer new insights into Roman social lif…
Suetonius
"Suetonius, a Roman historian, was the author of The Lives of the Caesars one of the most vivid surviving documents of the early Roma empire. His biographies illuminate not only the political history of the twelve rulers from Julius Caesar to Domitian, but also the whole social and cultural world to which these Caesar's belonged. In the first major study of Suetonius in English, Andrew Wallace-Hadrill places the biographer in the context of taste…
The imperial court
The work of the last generation of historians has represented a large step towards a better understanding of the early imperial court. Several major studies have extended the detailed knowledge of the freedmen personnel, the equestrian amici principis, and of links among the senatorial elite. Above all, study of contacts between emperors and their subjects, the decision-making process and the distribution of resources and patronage, show the netw…
The Cambridge Ancient History: The Augustan Empire, 43 BC-AD 69
The period described in Volume 10 of the second edition of The Cambridge Ancient History begins in the year after the death of Julius Caesar and ends in the year after the fall of Nero, the last of the Julio-Claudian emperors. Its main theme is the transformation of the political configuration of the state and the establishment of the Roman Empire. Chapters 1-6 supply a political narrative history of the period. In chapters 7-12 the institutions …
Unpeeling Pompeii
Pompeii, recovered from under Vesuvius ash, offers a famous 'frozen moment' in archaeological time: a city as it stood at a certain day. Beyond and beneath the dating evidence visible in its standing buildings is to be found a more archaeological chronology
Ancestor Masks and Aristocratic Power in Roman Culture
Towards a history of pre-Roman Pompeii: Excavations beneath the House of Amarantus (I.9.11–12), 1995–8
VERSO UNA STORIA DELLA POMPEI PRE-ROMANA: SCAVI AL DI SOTTO DELLA CASA DI AMARANTO (I.9.11–12), 1995–8 Scavi condotti al di sotto della casa di Amaranto (I.9.11–12) a Pompei hanno prodotto evidenze della più antica occupazione dell'area. Tali ritrovamenti sono discussi nel presente articolo. Con l'eccezione di alcune tracce di presenza preistorica, la sequenza va dal VI al I secolo a.C, quando la casa fu costruita. Un resoconto della sequenza str…
Timothy William Potter (6 July 1944 – 11 January 2000)
Tim Potter's vigorous and enthusiastic contributions to the School, stretching from his arrival as Rome Scholar in 1966, through his excavations
The British School at Rome 1901–2001
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Domestic Space in the Roman World: Pompeii and beyond
The Streets of Rome as a Representation of Imperial Power
In vain, great hearted Kublai, shall I attempt to describe Zaira, city of high bastions. I could tell you how many steps make up the streets rising like stairways, and the degrees of the arcades' curves, and what kind of zinc scales cover the roofs; but I already know this would be the same as telling you nothing." (Italo Calvino)2 Rome was a microcosm of Roman imperial power, the showplace of imperial might. The image of the emperor was written …
City and Country in the Ancient World
The ancient Greco-Roman world was a world full of cities: not of cities in the modern sense of massive conglomerations, but in a distinctive sense of communities in which countryside was dominated by urban centre. Interest in the special relationship of town and country in the ancient world goes back to Max Weber and beyond. This volume of papers by archaeologists and historians seeks to bring together the two disciplines in exploring the city-co…
Mutatas Formas: The Augustan Transformation of Roman Knowledge
In nova fert animus mutatas dicere formas/ corpora (“My mind impels me to tell of forms changed to new bodies”; Ovid, Met . 1.1–2) Ovid's extraordinary tour-de-force in representing all of mythology, indeed the whole history of the world from creation to the deification of Caesar, as a seamlessly interconnected series of transformations, offers a vision rooted in contemporary Augustan experience. The transformational skill with which Augustus con…
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