Staff Profile:Dr A Marzano

Name:

Dr Annalisa Marzano

Job Title:

Reader

Responsibilities:

• Deputy Head of Department
• Examinations Officer, Parts 2&3
• Member, Regional Advisory Group for Internationalization (Europe)

Background/Qualifications:

Laurea cum laude (U. of Florence); MPhil; PhD with distinction (Columbia U).

Before her appointment at Reading Dr Marzano taught at Columbia University and the University of Oxford. At Oxford she was Research Assistant at the Institute of Archaeology (2004-2008), Research Staff for the Oxford Roman Economy Project (2005-2008), and W. Golding Research Fellow at Brasenose College (2005-2008).

Areas of Interest:

Dr Marzano's research interests rest in the sphere of Roman social and economic history; in her research she uses an interdisciplinary approach that combines textual and archaeological evidence. Recent and current areas of investigation are:

• Roman Economy: Dr Marzano is researching different aspects of the Roman economy including continuity and disruption in the exploitation of economic resources, settlement patterns, and urbanism in Britain, Spain, and Italy. For more information click here. 
• Roman Villas: Her research explores the ideology of the villa and its production as depicted in the texts of Latin authors; the varied nature of capital investments and production; and how the social function of villas changed throughout the centuries.
• Cult of Hercules: Dr Marzano is researching the historical, religious, and cultural development of the cult of the Italic/Roman Hercules and the differences with the Greek Herakles, and is currently looking at the relationship between this cult and trade.
• Imperial Propaganda: She is interested in images, techniques, and media used in the dissemination of imperial messages and has shown the occurrence of audience targeting in the choice of coin types in the imperial period.

Postgraduate Supervision:

Dr Marzano is currently supervising a PhD thesis on the impact of definitions and recording systems on economic decision-making in the Roman world. She is happy to discuss proposals in any area connected to the Roman economy and society (both in the Republic and Empire), and the interrelation between text and image as a means of communication in the public and private sphere.

Research groups / Centres:

• Language, Text, and Power, University of Reading.
• Sacred Ways; Trade, Routes and Cults in the Ancient World, University of Wales Trinity Saint David.
• Ancient Religions, University of Reading
• Material Culture, University of Reading
• Research Centre for Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, University of Reading

• Language, Script, and Acculturation in Graeco-Roman Egypt, International Advisor, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.

Field Experience:

• Apolline Project, Napes/Italy; Roman site; 2009-present
• Dakhleh Oasis Project, Amheida/Egypt; Pharaonic to Late Antique site; 2008.
• Post Aedem Castoris Project, Rome/Italy; Roman site; 2005.
• Euesperides Project, Benghazi /Libya; Archaic and Hellenistic site; 2005.
• Restoring Ancient Stabiae, Castellamare di Stabia/Italy; Roman site; 2001, 2002.
• Chianciano Terme, Siena/Italy; Roman site; 1995-2000
• Poggibonsi, Siena/Italy; Medieval site; 1993.
• Chianti Field Survey, Chianti/Italy; 1992.
• Massa Marittima, Grosseto/Italy; Etruscan site; 1989-1991.
• Archaeological Laboratory, Florence/Italy; 1988-1990.

Publications:

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Number of items: 23.

2011

• Marzano, A. (2011) Rank-size analysis and the Roman cities of the Iberian Peninsula and Britain: some considerations. In: Bowman, A. K. and Wilson, A. I. (eds.) Settlement, Urbanization, and Population. Oxford Studies in the Roman Economy (2). Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 198-230. ISBN 9780199602353 (In Press)
• Marzano, A. (2011) Ergasterion/Ergastulum. In: Bagnall, R. S., Brodersen, K., Champion, C., Erskine, A. and Huebner, S. (eds.) The Encyclopaedia of Ancient History. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford. ISBN 9781405179355 (In Press)
• Marzano, A. (2011) Land and landholding, Rome. In: Bagnall, R. S., Brodersen, K., Champion, C., Erskine, A. and Huebner, S. (eds.) The Encyclopaedia of Ancient History. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford. ISBN 9781405179355 (In Press)
• Marzano, A. (2011) Latifundia/large estates. In: Bagnall, R. S., Brodersen, K., Champion, C., Erskine, A. and Huebner, S. (eds.) The Encyclopaedia of Ancient History. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford. ISBN 9781405179355 (In Press)
• Marzano, A. (2011) Villa. In: Bagnall, R. S., Brodersen, K., Champion, C., Erskine, A. and Huebner, S. (eds.) The Encyclopaedia of Ancient History. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford. ISBN 9781405179355 (In Press)
• Marzano, A. (2011) Snails, wine and winter navigation. In: Harris, W.V. and Iara, K. (eds.) Maritime technology in the ancient economy: ship design and navigation. Supplementary Series (S84). Journal of Roman Archaeology, Portsmouth, Rhode Island, pp. 179-188. ISBN 9781887829847

2010

• Marzano, A. (2010) L'antichità attraverso l'Italia. In: Wallace, M. and Kemp, M. (eds.) La Cultura Italiana: L'arte e il visuale. La cultura italiana ( editor Luigi Luca Cavalli Sforza ), 10.1. UTET, Turin, pp. 50-75. ISBN 9788802081335
• Marzano, A. (2010) Le ville marittime tra amoenitas e fructus. Amoenitas. Rivista di Studi Miscellanei sulla Villa Romana, 1. pp. 21-33.

2009

• Marzano, A. (2009) Agros coemendo et colendo in gloriam: villas and farms in the Republic. In: Keaveney, A. and Earnshaw-Brown, L. (eds.) The Italians on the land: Changing perspectives on Republican Italy then and now. Cambridge Scholars, Newcastle, pp. 31-46. ISBN 9781443811293
• Marzano, A. and Brizzi, G. (2009) Costly display or economic investment? A quantitative approach to the study of Roman marine aquaculture. Journal of Roman Archaeology, 22. pp. 215-230. ISSN 1047-7594
• Marzano, A. (2009) Hercules and the triumphal feast for the Roman people. In: Antela-Bernárdez, B. and Ñaco del Hoyo, T. (eds.) Transforming historical landscapes in the Ancient Empires. British Archeological Reports, International Series (1986). Oxford: John and Erica Hedges Ltd. , Oxford, pp. 83-97. ISBN 9781407304601
• Marzano, A. (2009) Trajanic building projects on base-metal denominations and audience targeting. Papers of the British School at Rome, 77. pp. 125-158. ISSN 0068-2462

2008

• Marzano, A. (2008) Non solo vino campano. La pastio villatica e una rivalutazione della navigazione nell’antichità. Oebalus. Studi sulla Campania nell’Antichità (3). pp. 251-266. ISSN 1970-6421

2007

• Marzano, A. (2007) Roman villas in central Italy: a social and economic history. Columbia studies in the classical tradition, 30. Brill, Leiden, pp832. ISBN 9789004160378
• Marzano, A. (2007) Fish salting versus fish breeding: the case of Roman Italy. In: Lagóstena Barrios, L., Arévalo González, A. and Bernal Casasola, D. (eds.) Cetariae 2005. Salsas y salazones de pescado en occidente durante la Antigüedad. Actas del Congreso Internacional (Cadiz, 7-9 de noviembre de 2005). British Archaeological Reports, International Series (1686). John and Erica Hedges Ltd, Oxford, pp. 301-313. ISBN 9781407300733

2006

• Soren, H. D., Bizzarri, C., Marzano, A. and Olivas, J. (2006) Excavations at Mezzomiglio locality, Chianciano Terme, Italy. In: Soren, H. D. (ed.) An Ancient Roman spa at Mezzomiglio: Chianciano Terme, Toscana. British Archaeological Reports, International Series (1548). John and Erica Hedges Ltd, Oxford, pp. 23-57. ISBN 9781841717616
• Marzano, A. (2006) History of the archaeological investigations in the territory of Chianciano Terme. In: Soren, H. D. (ed.) An Ancient Roman spa at Mezzomiglio: Chianciano Terme, Toscana. British Archaeological Reports, International Series, 1 (1548). John and Erica Hedges Ltd, Oxford, pp. 11-13. ISBN 9781841717616
• Marzano, A. (2006) Mezzomiglio: the wall in so-called Terza Maniera opus poligonale. In: Soren, H. D. (ed.) An Ancient Roman spa at Mezzomiglio: Chianciano Terme, Toscana. British Archaeological Reports, International Series, 1 (1548). John and Erica Hedges Ltd, Oxford, pp. 61-64. ISBN 9781841717616
• Marzano, A. (2006) Preserving cultural heritage and developing a modern city: the difficult case of Euesperides. Libyan Studies (37). pp. 89-94. ISSN 0263-7189
• Marzano, A. (2006) Villas, Ergastula, and modern scholarship: the contribution of archaeology to social history or vice-versa? In: Brauer, A., Mattusch, C. and Donohue, A. (eds.) Common ground: archaeology, art, acience and humanities: the proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Classical Archaeology. Oxbow Books, Oxford, pp. 323-325. ISBN 9781842171837

2005

• Marzano, A. (2005) Country villas in Roman central Italy: reassessing the evidence. In: Aubert, J.-J. and Várhelyi, Z. (eds.) A tall order. Writing the social history of the ancient world. Essays in honor of William V. Harris. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde (216). K G Saur Verlag Gmbh & Co, Munchen, pp. 241-262. ISBN 9783598778285

2000

• Marzano, A. (2000) Archeologia subacquea. In: Belmonte, G. (ed.) Blu di Puglia: Ambienti e itinerari sommersi intorno al Salento. Conte Editore, Lecce, pp. 161-165. ISBN 9788887143362

1998

• Soren, H. D., Bizzari, C., Marzano, A. and Romer, F. (1998) "La sorgente d'Orazio" a Chianciano Terme: guida archeologica. La Soprintendenza Archeologica per la Toscana and the University of Arizona, Chianciano Terme .

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A complete list of publications and papers can be found on her personal webpage.