Staff Profile:Professor Annalisa Marzano

Name:

Professor Annalisa Marzano

Job Title:

Professor

Responsibilities:

Research Division Lead, Classics.

Background/Qualifications:

Laurea cum laude (Florence); MPhil; PhD with distinction (Columbia); SFHEA, FRHistS, FSA, MAE

Before her appointment at Reading Professor 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:

Professor Marzano's research interests rest in the sphere of Roman social and economic history. Recent and current areas of investigation are:

• Roman Economy: Professor Marzano works on different aspects of the Roman economy including ancient agriculture and horticulture, 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 has explored the ideology of the villa and its production as depicted in the texts of Latin authors; the varied nature of capital investments; and how the social function of villas changed throughout the centuries.
• Marine Resources, large-scale fishing, and aquaculture: Professor Marzano is an expert on Roman marine aquaculture and large-scale fishing and her research has brought attention to the importance the exploitation of marine resources had in the ancient economy.

Postgraduate Supervision:

Professor Marzano 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.

Current PhD Students:

• Jessica Feito, 'Detecting Regional Variation in the Roman Diet'. 
• Lee Grana Nicolaou, 'The fishing industry in Roman Britain'.

As second supervisor:

• Maria Lloyd, 'The Severi and their political messages'

Completed:

• Orazio Camaioni, 'Varro's Antiquitates Rerum Humanarum'.
• Mick Stringer, 'The impact of definitions and recording systems on economic decision-making in the Roman world'.
• Roberta Ferritto, 'The Roman maritime villas of southern Lazio: Construction, Design and Connection to the Sea'.
• Mauro Serena, 'The many images of the Achaemenids at Rome (205 CBE - 224 CE)'.

Research groups / Centres:

• Language, Text, and Power, University of Reading.
• Centre for Institutions and Economic History , University of Reading
• International Research Network 'Structural Determinants of Economic Performance in the Roman World'
• Ancient Religions, University of Reading
• Material Culture, University of Reading

 

Field Experience:

Since 2018 Professor Marzano has been co-directing the "Casa della Regina Carolina Project" at Pompeii. The project is surveying the elite dwelling located at VIII 3.14 (only partly excavated in the 19th century) and excavating the garden area.

Past archaeological projects include:

• The Apolline Project, Naples/Italy 2009-2013
• Dakhleh Oasis Project, Amheida/Egypt 2008.
• Post Aedem Castoris Project, Rome/Italy 2005.
• Euesperides Project, Benghazi /Libya 2005.
• Restoring Ancient Stabiae, Castellamare di Stabia/Italy 2001, 2002.
• Chianciano Terme, Siena/Italy 1995-2000
• Poggibonsi, Siena/Italy; 1993.
• Chianti Field Survey, Chianti/Italy 1992.
• Massa Marittima, Grosseto/Italy 1989-1991.
• Archaeological Laboratory, Florence/Italy 1988-1990.

Publications:

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Number of items: 50.

2020

• Marzano, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6485-9143 (2020) Caesar’s triumphal banquet of 46 BC: a hypothesis on its political significance on the basis of a recent epigraphic discovery from Pompeii. Politica Antica, 10. pp. 99-107. ISSN 2281-1400 doi: https://doi.org/10.4475/940
• Marzano, A. (2020) Agriculture in imperial Italy. In: Hollander, D. and Howe, T. (eds.) A Companion to Ancient Agriculture. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. John Wiley & Sons, pp. 431-446. ISBN 9781118970928
• Marzano, A., ed. (2020) Proceedings of the 19th international congress of classical archaeology Cologne/Bonn, 22 – 26 May 2018. Archaeology and economy in the ancient world. Panel 3.15: villas, peasant agriculture, and the Roman rural economy. Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Classical Archaeology, 3.10. Propylaeum, Heidelberg, pp116.
• Marzano, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6485-9143 (2020) Fishing and the development of human societies: a view from the classical world. Argos: Revista do Museu Marítimo de Ílhavo (8). pp. 6-12. (In Press)
• Marzano, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6485-9143 (2020) Figures in an imperial landscape. Ecological and societal factors on settlement patterns and agriculture in Roman Italy. In: Erdkamp, P., Manning, J. and Verboven, K. (eds.) Climate Change and Ancient Societies in Europe and the Near East. Diversity in Collapse and Resilience. Palgrave Studies on Ancient Economies. Palgrave McMillan. (In Press)
• Marzano, A. (2020) A story of land and water: control, capital, and investment in large-scale fishing and fish-salting operations. In: Erdkamp, P., Verboven, K. and Zuiderhoek, A. (eds.) Capital, Investment, and Innovation in the Roman World. Oxford Studies on the Roman Economy. Oxford University Press, pp. 275-305, 512 p.. ISBN 9780198841845 doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198841845.001.0001
• Barrett, C., Gleason, K. and Marzano, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6485-9143 (2020) The Casa della Regina Carolina (CRC) project, Pompeii: preliminary report on 2018 and 2019 field seasons. FastiOnlineDocuments & Research. 491. ISSN 1828-3179

2019

• Marzano, A. (2019) Food, popinae, and the emperor: some considerations on the early-imperial policies on the sale of food. In: Cecconi, G. A., Lizzi Testa, R. and Marcone, A. (eds.) The Past as Present: Essays on Roman History in Honour of Guido Clemente. Studi e Testi tardoantichi (17). Brepols, pp. 435-458. ISBN 9782503585246

2018

• Marzano, A. (2018) Fish and fishing in the Roman world. Journal of Maritime Archaeology, 13 (3). pp. 437-447. ISSN 1557-2285 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11457-018-9195-1
• Marzano, A. (2018) Fish and seafood. In: Erdkamp, P. and Holleran, C. (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Diet and Nutrition in the Roman World. Routledge, London and New York, pp. 163-173. ISBN 9780815364344
• Marzano, A. (2018) Maritime villas and the resources of the sea. In: Marzano, A. and Metraux, G. P. R. (eds.) The Roman Villa in the Mediterranean Basin: Late Republic to Late Antiquity. Cambridge University Press, New York and Cambridge, pp. 125-140. ISBN 9781107164314
• Marzano, A. and Metraux, G. P. R. (2018) The Roman villa in the Mediterranean: an overview. In: Marzano, A. and Metraux, G. P. R. (eds.) The Roman Villa in the Mediterranean Basin: Late Republic to Late Antiquity. Cambridge University Press, New York and Cambridge, pp. 1-41. ISBN 9781107164314
• Marzano, A. (2018) Cicero, Paradoxa Stoicorum ad M. Brutum 38: an allusion to a new slave specialization? Latomus: Revue d'études latines, 77 (1). pp. 161-176. ISSN 0023-8856 doi: https://doi.org/10.2143/LAT.77.1.3284727
• Marzano, A. (2018) Large-scale fishing and the Roman production and trade in salted fish: some organizational aspects. In: Woytek, B. (ed.) Infrastructure and Distribution in Ancient Economies. Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, Vienna, pp. 393-407. ISBN 9783700181088 (Proceedings of a conference held at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, 28-31 October 2014, Vienna)
• Marzano, A. and Metraux, G. P. R., eds. (2018) The Roman villa in the Mediterranean Basin: late republic to late antiquity. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. ISBN 9781107164314

2017

• Marzano, A. (2017) Classical archaeology and the ancient economy. In: Lichtenberg, A. and Raja, R. (eds.) The Diversity of Classical Archaeology. Studies in Classical Archaeology, 1. Brepols, Turnhout, pp. 101-113. ISBN 9782503574936

2015

• Marzano, A. (2015) The variety of Villa production: from agriculture to aquaculture. In: Erdkamp, P., Verboven, K. and Zuiderhoek, A. (eds.) Ownership and Exploitation of Land and Natural Resources in the Roman World. Oxford Studies on the Roman Economy. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 187-206. ISBN 9780198728924
• Marzano, A. (2015) Reshaping the past, shaping the present: Andrea de Jorio and Naples' classical heritage. In: Hughes, J. and Buongiovanni, C. (eds.) Remembering Parthenope: The Reception of Classical Naples from Antiquity to the Present. Classical Presences. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 266-283. ISBN 9780199673933
• Marzano, A. (2015) Sergio Orata e il Lago Lucrino: alcune considerazioni sull’allevamento di ostriche nella Campania romana. Oebalus. Studi sulla Campania nell’Antichità, 10. pp. 131-150. ISSN 1970-6421
• Marzano, A. (2015) Villas as instigators and indicators of economic growth. In: Erdkamp, P. and Verboven, K. (eds.) Structure and performance in the Roman economy : models, methods and case studies. Collection Latomus (350). Latomus, Bruxelles, pp. 197-221. ISBN 9789042932807

2014

• Marzano, A. (2014) Roman countryside. In: Clayman, D. (ed.) Oxford Bibliographies Online. Oxford University Press, New York. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/OBO/9780195389661-0178
• Marzano, A. (2014) Roman gardens, military conquests, and elite self-representation. In: Coleman, K. (ed.) Le jardin dans l'antiquité. Entretiens sur l'antiquité classique (LX). Fondation Hardt, Geneva, pp. 195-244. ISBN 9782600007603
• Marzano, A. (2014) Villas and farms in the Mediterranean world. In: Smith, C. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, New York, pp. 7639-7646. ISBN 9781441904263 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2

2013

• Marzano, A. (2013) Harvesting the sea: the exploitation of marine resources in the Roman Mediterranean. Oxford Studies on the Roman Economy. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp384. ISBN 9780199675623
• Marzano, A. (2013) Agricultural production in the hinterland of Rome: wine and olive oil. In: Bowman, A.K. and Wilson, A.I. (eds.) The Roman agricultural economy: organisation, investment and production. Oxford studies on the Roman economy (3). Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 85-106. ISBN 9780199665723
• Marzano, A. (2013) Capital investment and agriculture: multi-press facilities from Gaul, Iberian Peninsula and the Black Sea region. In: Bowman, A.K. and Wilson, A.I. (eds.) The Roman agricultural economy: organisation, investment and production. Oxford Studies on the Roman Economy (3). Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 107-142. ISBN 9780199665723
• Marzano, A. (2013) Le villae rusticae romane e la loro dimensione economica : uno sguardo alla penisola italiana. In: Rizakis, A.D. and Touratsoglou, I.P. (eds.) Villae rusticae : family and market-oriented farms in Greece under Roman rule : Proceedings of an international congress held at Patrai, 23-24 April 2010. Meletemata (68). De Boccard ; National Hellenic Research Foundation, Paris ; Athens, pp. 6-20. ISBN 9789609538190

2012

• Marzano, A. (2012) Ergasterion/Ergastulum. In: Bagnall, R. S., Brodersen, K., Champion, C., Erskine, A. and Huebner, S. (eds.) The Encyclopaedia of Ancient History. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 2488-2489. ISBN 9781405179355 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444338386
• Marzano, A. (2012) 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, pp. 3886-3888. ISBN 9781405179355 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444338386
• Marzano, A. (2012) 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, pp. 3917-3918. ISBN 9781405179355 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444338386
• Marzano, A. (2012) Villa. In: Bagnall, R. S., Brodersen, K., Champion, C., Erskine, A. and Huebner, S. (eds.) The Encyclopaedia of Ancient History. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 6997-7000. ISBN 9781405179355 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444338386

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. 196-228. ISBN 9780199602353
• 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.