Mary T. Boatwright

Mary Taliaferro Boatwright is professor of classical studies at Duke University. She is a specialist in Roman history.

Early life

Boatwright received her B.A. from Stanford University in 1973, and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. She was a Phi Beta Kappa at Stanford.

Career

Boatwright is professor of classical studies at Duke University. She is a specialist in Roman history, the topography of Rome, Roman women, Rome's northern frontiers and Latin historiography. In 1992 she won the Gildersleeve Prize, for her article "The Imperial Women of the Early Second Century A.C." in the American Journal of Philology (No. 112 (1991), pp. 513-40)^[1]

Selected publications

• Hadrian and the City of Rome, Princeton University Press, 1987.
• Hadrian and the Cities of the Roman Empire, Princeton University Press, 2000.^[2]
• The Shapes of City Life in Rome and Pompeii, Caratzas, 2000. (co-editor with H. B. Evans)
• Peoples of the Roman World, Cambridge University Press, 2012.
• A Brief History of the Romans, Oxford University Press, 2013. (With D. Gargola, N. Lenski, and R.J.A. Talbert)

References

1. Mary T. Boatwright. Duke Classical Studies. Retrieved 31 December 2015.
2. Hadrian and the Cities of the Roman Empire. Princeton University Press. Retrieved 31 December 2015.

External links

• Mary Boatwright on What ancient Romans can teach us about Confederate monuments.