Jonathan Edmondson

• Distinguished Research Professor at York University

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...

Reconstructing a small town in the foothills of the Pyrenees: the Flavian municipium of Labitolosa - MARÍA ANGELES MAGALLÓN BOTAYA & PIERRE SILLIÈRES (edd.), LABITOLOSA (LA PUEBLA DE CASTRO, PROVINCE DE HUESCA, ESPAGNE). UNE CITÉ ROMAINE DE L’HISPANIE CITÉRIEURE (Ausonius Éditions, Mémoires 33; Bordeaux 2013). Pp. 499, 8 pls. hors texte, more than...

Drawing on the historicizing turn in Latin literary scholarship, Roman Literary Cultures combines new critical methods with traditional analysis across four hundred years of Latin literature, from mid-republican Rome in the second century BC to the Second Sophistic in the second century AD. The contributors explore Latin texts both famous and obscu...

DomergueC., Les Mines de la péninsule ibérique dans l'antiquité romaine (Collection de l'École française de Rome CXXVII). Rome: École Française de Rome, 1990. Pp. xx + 625, 50 pls, 23 plans, 7 maps. ISBN 2-7283-0193-X. - Volume 82 - Jonathan Edmondson

HarrisonR. J., Spain at the Dawn of History: Iberians, Phoenicians and Greeks (Ancient Peoples and Places CV). London: Thames and Hudson, 1988. Pp. 176, 112 illus (incl. pls, text figs, maps, plans), ISBN 0-500-02111-2. KeayS. J., Roman Spain (Exploring the Roman World). London: British Museum Publications, 1988. Pp. 240, 88 illus (incl. pls (8 col...

TranoyA., La Galice romaine: recherches sur le nord-ouest de la péninsule ibérique dans l'antiquité (Publications du Centre Pierre Paris VII; Collection de la Maison des pays ibériques vii). Paris: de Boccard, 1981. Pp. 602, 16 pls, 13 text figs, 36 maps (1 folding in rear pocket). - Volume 76 - J. C. Edmondson

TrillmichW., HauschildT., BlechM., NiemeyerH. G., Nünnerich-AsmusA., and KreilingerU., Hispania Antiqua: Denkmäler der Römerzeit. Mainz: von Zabern, 1993. Pp. ix + 503, 254 Pls. 185 illus. ISBN 3-8053-1547-3. DM 198. - Volume 86 - Jonathan Edmondson

Of all local gods in Rome's western provinces, one of the best attested is Endovellicus, whose sanctuary at S?o Miguel da Mota (Alandroal, Portugal) dominated the landscape near the frontier between the territories of Emerita (M?rida) and Ebora (?vora) in Lusitania.

In the early first century ad as one left the centre of Rome along the via Labicana heading south-east in the general direction of Praeneste (modern Palestrina), one would pass by the vast suburban estate of the Statilii Tauri, a distinguished senatorial family. These Horti Tauriani (‘Taurian Gardens’) had been developed by one of Augustus' most tr...

This paper suggests some general approaches and raises some problems in studying the impact of Rome on the rural landscape in Lusitania. It concentrates on three crucial ways in which the landscape was transformed under Roman rule: (a) changes in the pattern of rural settlement; (b) changes in the nature of land use and agrarian exploitation; and (...

Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture investigates the social symbolism and cultural poetics of dress in the ancient Roman world in the period from 200 BCE-400 CE. Editors Jonathan Edmondson and Alison Keith and the contributors to this volume explore the diffusion of Roman dress protocols at Rome and in the Roman imperial context by looking...

IntroductionCities and the Framework of Roman Provincial Administration in the WestThe Varying Status of CitiesMonumental City CentersUrban SocietyThe Limits of Local AutonomyConclusion

This introductory chapter begins by surveying the political career of Yosef ben Mattityahu, who became T(itus) Flavius Josephus after being granted Roman citizenship by Vespasian in 71. It then charts his literary career as a diaspora Jew writing in the city of Rome, outlining briefly the aims and scope of his works. A consideration of the politica...

This chapter investigates funerary commemorations in Lusitania, a province of ancient Rome, by analysing all funerary inscriptions from seven different towns or regions. Examining factors such as gender, age, and onomastic conventions, it argues for a direct relationship between Rome's political presence and the shape of social relations in the pro...

One of the more tangible benefits that accrued to Rome from the conquest of an empire was the acquisition of significant mineral resources, significant because Italy, although rich in iron, could not provide a sufficient supply of the whole range of metals needed by the Roman state for coinage and by members of the élite for the luxury artefacts th...