Theorising Rome

Rhiannon Evans is Associate Professor of Classics and Ancient History and Head of the Department of Languages and Linguistics at La Trobe University, Australia. She works on Roman representations of ethnic and cultural identity, and has published a book on Roman utopias and dystopias. She is passionate about communicating the ancient past to a wider audience. She frequently appears on ABC radio, and is the co-host of the popular podcast ‘Emperors of Rome’.Sonya Wurster holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne, and is an Adjunct Lecturer at La Trobe University, Australia. Her work is broadly concerned with socio-cultural interactions between Greeks and Romans. Aside from exploring how the relationship between Greeks and Romans operated in the late republic, she has investigated the impact of Roman expansion on Strabo’s perception and presentation of geography in the Geographica, a work composed in the Augustan or early Tiberian period.