Harriet I. Flower

Professor of Classics

Princeton University

Fall 2009

Wednesday 10-11:30 a.m. & Thursday 1:30-2:30 p.m.

Fall 2009

LAT203 Introduction to Augustan Literature

CLA546 Problems in Roman History: Religion and Magic in Ancient Rome

Background

B.A. University College, Oxford ’83, Ph.D. Penn ’93.

Professor Flower is teaching and writing about Roman social and cultural history, with a special emphasis on material culture. Her previous research has focussed on various facets of the study of memory and of spectacle in Roman culture, notably during the Republic. She has published Ancestor Masks and Aristocratic Power in Roman Culture and The Art of Forgetting: Disgrace and Oblivion in Roman Political Culture as well as many articles. She is the editor of Cambridge Companion to the Roman Republic. Her current research is a book on the city of Rome during the Republic.