Eric Orlin

Research Grantee

2012-13 Report


Positions

Publications 2012

  1. “Religious Toleration in Rome, 200 BCE – 200 CE”, in The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religious Diversity (co–authored with Nicola Denzey Lewis), forthcoming.
  2. “Augustan Reconstruction and Roman Memory” (title tentative), in forthcoming volume on Roman memory from Oxford University Press, edited by Karl Galinsky.
  3. “Rome”. Entry in Bible Odyssey, an NEH–funded website under the auspices of the Society of Biblical Literature.
  4. General Editor for the Routledge Dictionary of Ancient Mediterranean Religions. Under contract with Routledge University Press.
  5. A Social and Cultural History of Republican Rome. Under contract with Wiley–Blackwell, expected publication 2015.

Papers at Conferences 2012

  1. “Monuments and Memory in Augustan Rome”. University of Victoria, February, 2012.
  2. “Religious Toleration in an Age of Empire: What can we learn from the Romans?” Classical Association of Vancouver Island, February, 2012.
  3. “Monuments and Memory in Rome” Panel on Space, Place and Lived Experience at the Society for Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, November, 2012.
  4. “Monuments and Memory in Augustan Rome: The Circus Flaminius” Panel on Landscapes and Memory in Augustan and Severan Rome at the Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, January, 2013.

Additional Fellowships/Grants/Awards

Work Done with Funding from Memoria Romana

All of the lectures delivered drew directly on the material gained through the MR grant. I especially appreciated the ability to broaden my theoretical perspective; although the lectures all drew on the same basic material, the themes of each lecture were different according to the needs of the particular audience. Each focused on a different theoretical application of the data. The article in the Galinsky volume will be the published effort deriving from these presentations.

I might also note that the next research project, on which I will embark utilizing a separate grant received this year, will continue to draw upon the theme of landscape and memory that I have developed through the MR grant. I plan to explore how these themes play out in the rest of Italy, that is, outside of Rome. In addition, the textbook for which I have contracted with Wiley–Blackwell (see above) will draw upon some of this theoretical material in painting a picture of Republican Rome, thus extending the reach of these ideas even into the undergraduate classroom.


Updated: March 19, 2013. Questions? Comments? Contact bnatoli@utexas.edu