Classics Program, Ground Floor, A.D. Hope Building (14),
Ellery Crescent, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200
email: classics@anu.edu.au
Professor Emerita Beryl Rawson
Adjunct Professor
Main Research Interests
Roman history, especially social and political history of the late
Republic and first three centuries of the Empire.
Iconography.
In particular, 'The Roman Family' and 'Children and Childhood in Ancient
Rome'.
Selected Research Publications
Books
The Politics of Friendship: Pompey and Cicero (Sydney University Press:
1978, reprinted 1981) vi + 217 pp. ISBN 0 424 06800 1
The Family in Ancient Rome: New Perspectives, ed. and contributor (Croom
Helm, London and Sydney; Cornell U.P., N.Y. : 1986) vi + 279. ISBN 7099
4202 8; Routledge pb. 1992, ISBN 0 415 07996 9
Marriage, Divorce and Children in Ancient Rome, ed. and contributor
(Oxford University Press: 1991) 224pp + xiv; plates and diagrams. ISBN
0 19 814918 2; Clarendon Paperback 1996. ISBN 0 19 815045 8
The Roman Family in Italy: Status, Sentiment, Space, ed. (with Paul
Weaver) and contributor (Oxford University Press: 1997) 378 pp. + xvi;
figures and tables. ISBN 0 19 815052 0; Clarendon Paperback 1999. ISBN
0 19 815283 3
Children and Childhood in Ancient Rome (Oxford University Press 2003)
419 pp + xiv; 30 Figures. ISBN 0-19-924034-5. Revised paperback 2005
ISBN 0-19-928517-9
Recent Articles/Chapters:
'Family and Society', in The Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies, ed. A. Barchiesi and W. Scheidel, Oxford (Oxford University Press) forthcoming
'Banquets in Rome : participation, presentation and perception', in Dining on Turtles: Food, Feasts and Drinking in History , ed. D, Kirkby and T. Luckins, 15-32, London (Palgrave-Macmillan) 2007.
'Finding Roman women', in A Companion to the Roman Republic , ed. N. Rosenstein and R. Morstein-Marx, 324-41, London (Blackwell) 2006.
'The family', in Cambridge Dictionary of Classical Civilization , ed. L. Foxhall, D. Mattingly, G. Shipley, 338-41, Cambridge (Cambridge University Press) 2006.
