Seth Bernard
Biographic Data
| ID | 3623113 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Seth Bernard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Seth |
| FAMILY NAME | Bernard |
| SIGNATURE | BERNARD S |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Falerii Novi Project
Models, Methods, and Morality
Epilogue
The Falerii Novi Project
Making the Middle Republic
During the fourth and third centuries BCE, Roman expansion into Italy reshaped the peninsula's Archaic societies and prompted new political relationships, new economic practices, and new sociocultural structures. Rural landscapes and urban spaces throughout Latium saw intensified use amidst novel principles of land management, animal husbandry, and architectural design. This book offers fresh perspectives on these transformations by embracing a w…
The Falerii Novi Project
The Falerii Novi Project represents a newly formed archaeological initiative to explore the Roman city of Falerii Novi. The project forms a collaboration of the British School at Rome with a multinational team of partner institutions. Thanks to a rich legacy of geophysical work on both the site and its territory, Falerii Novi presents an exceptional opportunity to advance understanding of urbanism in ancient and medieval Italy. The Falerii Novi P…
The Falerii Novi Project
A four-week campaign from 29 May–23 June 2023 marked the third season of the Falerii Novi Project, and the second season of stratigraphic excavation on site as part of an international collaboration between the British School at Rome, Harvard University, the Institute of Classical Studies (University of London) and the University of Toronto, along with researchers from Ghent University and the University of Florence, under the authorization of th…
An Environmental and Climate History of the Roman Expansion in Italy
A first synthesis of available data for the period of Rome's expansion in Italy (about 400-29 b.c.e.) shows the role of climate and environment in early Roman imperialism. Although global indices suggest a warmer phase with relatively few short-term climate events occuring around the same time as the expansion, local data emphasize the highly variable timing and expression of these trends. This variability casts doubt on ideas of a unitary, histo…
The Falerii Novi Project
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Notes on the elogium of a benefactor at Pompeii
The rediscovery in the summer of 2017 of a large monumental tomb of unusual form outside the Stabian Gate at Pompeii caused an immediate sensation, and the swift initial publication by M. Osanna in JRA 31 (2018) of the long funerary inscription fronting the W side of the base, facing the road, has been welcomed gratefully by the scholarly community. The text — at 183 words, by far the longest funerary inscription yet found at Pompeii — records a …
The Early Roman Expansion into Italy
426 PHOENIX The volume succeeds admirably in showcasing erudite essays that illustrate the variegated ancient approaches to the marvelous vis-à-vis medicine. At the same time, the near-exclusive focus on Hellenistic and imperial texts leaves little space for a diachronic or longue-durée perspective of this disciplinary or generic alliance. Consequently, the category of wonder comes to acquire an almost amorphous and ahistorical cast, conceived in…
A History of the Roman Equestrian Order by Caillan Davenport
BOOK REVIEWS/COMPTES RENDUS 227 little apparent oversight, but also to charge almost 100 euros for it. The book is a grim warning to graduate students and early-career scholars: only submit to properly peer-reviewed venues, and have your work vetted by as many people as possible prior to publication. Caveant scriptores. University of Toronto Cillian O'Hogan A History of the Roman Equestrian Order. By Caillan Davenport. Cambridge: Cambridge Univer…
Technologies and Narratives of Urban Archaeology at the Kelsey Museum
Urban Biographies, Ancient and Modern: Italy, Greece, Turkey, and the USA. Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 24 August 2018–6 January 2019, curated by Christopher Ratté with co-curators Lisa Nevett, Nicola Terrenato, Zoe Ortiz, and Kathy Velikov.The study of the city often feels as old as the city itself, and the historiography of urbanism, not only urban space, displays its own characteristic density and weight. It was thus welc…
Building Mid-Republican Rome
Building Mid-Republican Rome treats for the first time the development of the Mid-Republican city from 396 to 168 BCE. As Romans established imperial control over Italy and beyond, the city itself radically transformed into the center of the Mediterranean world. The book describes profound changes in terms of new urban architecture and new socioeconomic structures and argues that such developments were in fact closely linked: building Mid-Republi…
Conclusion
This chapter recapitulates the arguments of the previous chapters, while also emphasizing an overarching narrative of economic change. The book’s separate studies argue collectively for the Mid-Republic as the moment of significant change in Rome’s urban economy. Many of the structures of labor and the ways of organizing production that characterized the later Republican and Imperial city may be seen to emerge at this time. The question of what m…
A Cost Analysis of the Republican Circuit Walls
This chapter analyzes the social and economic effects of the single largest construction project of pre-Imperial Rome, the circuit of walls built in the first half of the fourth century BCE. I employ an “energetics” approach (Abrams 1994), quantifying the labor-cost of the walls’ construction by means of comparative data and close study of the monument’s remains. The resulting model provides a better idea not only of the walls’ total cost, but of…
The Nobilitas and Economic Innovation
The period around 300 BCE was one of dramatic change in the structure of the Republican economy. This chapter details the chronological convergence of three developments relevant to Rome’s production of large-scale infrastructure: the appearance of coinage, the expansion of public contracting, and attachment of the censor to the maintenance and construction of the city’s buildings. Together, these trends allowed speak to a broad shift in the logi…
Materials and Supply
This chapter details the formation of Republican Rome’s urban supply chains. As much of the city’s material even in later periods derived from Italy, the geography of supply emphasizes the Mid-Republican period, when the first stages of imperial conquest allowed Roman access to Italian quarries, forests, mines, and so forth. This discussion also serves to introduce various building materials referred to throughout the volume. Alongside reviewing …
Political Competition and Economic Change in Mid-Republican Rome
The Science of Roman History
176 PHOENIX finesse of Schlapbach’s philological reading, as well as her capacity to situate each passage within a broader cultural, literary, and philosophical tradition, without overlooking the aesthetic possibilities of dance analysis. Chapter Four (“[Perceived] Authenticity and the Physical Presence,” 169–200) explores aspects of credibility and visual impression associated with dance re-enactments in Xenophon’s Symposium and in Greek and Rom…
Debt, Land, and Labor in the Early Republican Economy
This paper describes the early Republican productive economy by focusing on the relationship of debt to the dynamics of landholding and the labor supply. I argue that the conquest of Veii (396 B.C.) thinned Roman labor relative to landholding. The imbalance led to the continuation of debt relationships for the next century
An Environmental and Climate History of the Roman Expansion in Italy
A first synthesis of available data for the period of Rome's expansion in Italy (about 400-29 b.c.e.) shows the role of climate and environment in early Roman imperialism. Although global indices suggest a warmer phase with relatively few short-term climate events occuring around the same time as the expansion, local data emphasize the highly variable timing and expression of these trends. This variability casts doubt on ideas of a unitary, histo…
Debt, Land, and Labor in the Early Republican Economy
This paper describes the early Republican productive economy by focusing on the relationship of debt to the dynamics of landholding and the labor supply. I argue that the conquest of Veii (396 B.C.) thinned Roman labor relative to landholding. The imbalance led to the continuation of debt relationships for the next century
The Falerii Novi Project
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Technologies and Narratives of Urban Archaeology at the Kelsey Museum
Urban Biographies, Ancient and Modern: Italy, Greece, Turkey, and the USA. Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 24 August 2018–6 January 2019, curated by Christopher Ratté with co-curators Lisa Nevett, Nicola Terrenato, Zoe Ortiz, and Kathy Velikov.The study of the city often feels as old as the city itself, and the historiography of urbanism, not only urban space, displays its own characteristic density and weight. It was thus welc…
Debt, Land, and Labor in the Early Republican Economy
This paper describes the early Republican productive economy by focusing on the relationship of debt to the dynamics of landholding and the labor supply. I argue that the conquest of Veii (396 B.C.) thinned Roman labor relative to landholding. The imbalance led to the continuation of debt relationships for the next century
Building Mid-Republican Rome
Building Mid-Republican Rome treats for the first time the development of the Mid-Republican city from 396 to 168 BCE. As Romans established imperial control over Italy and beyond, the city itself radically transformed into the center of the Mediterranean world. The book describes profound changes in terms of new urban architecture and new socioeconomic structures and argues that such developments were in fact closely linked: building Mid-Republi…
Conclusion
This chapter recapitulates the arguments of the previous chapters, while also emphasizing an overarching narrative of economic change. The book’s separate studies argue collectively for the Mid-Republic as the moment of significant change in Rome’s urban economy. Many of the structures of labor and the ways of organizing production that characterized the later Republican and Imperial city may be seen to emerge at this time. The question of what m…
A Cost Analysis of the Republican Circuit Walls
This chapter analyzes the social and economic effects of the single largest construction project of pre-Imperial Rome, the circuit of walls built in the first half of the fourth century BCE. I employ an “energetics” approach (Abrams 1994), quantifying the labor-cost of the walls’ construction by means of comparative data and close study of the monument’s remains. The resulting model provides a better idea not only of the walls’ total cost, but of…
The Nobilitas and Economic Innovation
The period around 300 BCE was one of dramatic change in the structure of the Republican economy. This chapter details the chronological convergence of three developments relevant to Rome’s production of large-scale infrastructure: the appearance of coinage, the expansion of public contracting, and attachment of the censor to the maintenance and construction of the city’s buildings. Together, these trends allowed speak to a broad shift in the logi…
Materials and Supply
This chapter details the formation of Republican Rome’s urban supply chains. As much of the city’s material even in later periods derived from Italy, the geography of supply emphasizes the Mid-Republican period, when the first stages of imperial conquest allowed Roman access to Italian quarries, forests, mines, and so forth. This discussion also serves to introduce various building materials referred to throughout the volume. Alongside reviewing …
Political Competition and Economic Change in Mid-Republican Rome
The Science of Roman History
176 PHOENIX finesse of Schlapbach’s philological reading, as well as her capacity to situate each passage within a broader cultural, literary, and philosophical tradition, without overlooking the aesthetic possibilities of dance analysis. Chapter Four (“[Perceived] Authenticity and the Physical Presence,” 169–200) explores aspects of credibility and visual impression associated with dance re-enactments in Xenophon’s Symposium and in Greek and Rom…
Notes on the elogium of a benefactor at Pompeii
The rediscovery in the summer of 2017 of a large monumental tomb of unusual form outside the Stabian Gate at Pompeii caused an immediate sensation, and the swift initial publication by M. Osanna in JRA 31 (2018) of the long funerary inscription fronting the W side of the base, facing the road, has been welcomed gratefully by the scholarly community. The text — at 183 words, by far the longest funerary inscription yet found at Pompeii — records a …
The Early Roman Expansion into Italy
426 PHOENIX The volume succeeds admirably in showcasing erudite essays that illustrate the variegated ancient approaches to the marvelous vis-à-vis medicine. At the same time, the near-exclusive focus on Hellenistic and imperial texts leaves little space for a diachronic or longue-durée perspective of this disciplinary or generic alliance. Consequently, the category of wonder comes to acquire an almost amorphous and ahistorical cast, conceived in…
A History of the Roman Equestrian Order by Caillan Davenport
BOOK REVIEWS/COMPTES RENDUS 227 little apparent oversight, but also to charge almost 100 euros for it. The book is a grim warning to graduate students and early-career scholars: only submit to properly peer-reviewed venues, and have your work vetted by as many people as possible prior to publication. Caveant scriptores. University of Toronto Cillian O'Hogan A History of the Roman Equestrian Order. By Caillan Davenport. Cambridge: Cambridge Univer…
Technologies and Narratives of Urban Archaeology at the Kelsey Museum
Urban Biographies, Ancient and Modern: Italy, Greece, Turkey, and the USA. Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 24 August 2018–6 January 2019, curated by Christopher Ratté with co-curators Lisa Nevett, Nicola Terrenato, Zoe Ortiz, and Kathy Velikov.The study of the city often feels as old as the city itself, and the historiography of urbanism, not only urban space, displays its own characteristic density and weight. It was thus welc…
The Falerii Novi Project
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Making the Middle Republic
During the fourth and third centuries BCE, Roman expansion into Italy reshaped the peninsula's Archaic societies and prompted new political relationships, new economic practices, and new sociocultural structures. Rural landscapes and urban spaces throughout Latium saw intensified use amidst novel principles of land management, animal husbandry, and architectural design. This book offers fresh perspectives on these transformations by embracing a w…
The Falerii Novi Project
The Falerii Novi Project represents a newly formed archaeological initiative to explore the Roman city of Falerii Novi. The project forms a collaboration of the British School at Rome with a multinational team of partner institutions. Thanks to a rich legacy of geophysical work on both the site and its territory, Falerii Novi presents an exceptional opportunity to advance understanding of urbanism in ancient and medieval Italy. The Falerii Novi P…
The Falerii Novi Project
A four-week campaign from 29 May–23 June 2023 marked the third season of the Falerii Novi Project, and the second season of stratigraphic excavation on site as part of an international collaboration between the British School at Rome, Harvard University, the Institute of Classical Studies (University of London) and the University of Toronto, along with researchers from Ghent University and the University of Florence, under the authorization of th…
An Environmental and Climate History of the Roman Expansion in Italy
A first synthesis of available data for the period of Rome's expansion in Italy (about 400-29 b.c.e.) shows the role of climate and environment in early Roman imperialism. Although global indices suggest a warmer phase with relatively few short-term climate events occuring around the same time as the expansion, local data emphasize the highly variable timing and expression of these trends. This variability casts doubt on ideas of a unitary, histo…
Models, Methods, and Morality
Epilogue
The Falerii Novi Project
The Falerii Novi Project
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