Claire Stocks Editor

Dr. Aurora Raimondi Cominesi is project curator at the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden. In 2019, she obtained her doctoral degree at Radboud University (Nijmegen, The Netherlands) with a dissertation titled The Past on the Wall. Anchoring Innovation in the Decoration and Architecture of the Imperial Residences on the Palatine. Her research focuses on mural paintings, domestic and public architecture, and includes studies on the Roman villas at Stabiae. She also has an interest in the digital challenges faced by museums today; she co-edited the guide (in Italian) Comunicare la cultura online: una guida pratica per i musei. Progettazione di siti web, content management, social media e analisi dei risultati. Dr. Nathalie de Haan is senior lecturer in Ancient History at Radboud University (Nijmegen, The Netherlands). She published on Roman baths and bathing culture, domestic architecture, archaeology in Fascist Italy, and contributed with various publications to the field of Reception Studies, such as the recent volume Framing Classical Reception Studies, Leiden 2020, co-edited with Maarten De Pourcq and David Rijser. She is the author of Römische Privatbäder. Entwicklung, Verbreitung, Struktur und sozialer Status, Frankfurt am Main 2010. With Kurt Wallat she conducted research and excavations in the Central Baths of Pompeii (monograph forthcoming). Her current research interests include the multifaceted role of archaeology, heritage and the Classics in Italy in the 19th and 20th centuries. Eric M. Moormann holds the chair of Classical Archaeology at Radboud University (Nijmegen, The Netherlands). Main research themes are urban studies of Rome, Herculaneum, and Pompeii, next to figural arts, especially mural painting. Furthermore, he has worked on Winckelmann and reception history. He is editor-in-chief of BABESCH. His publications include Divine Interiors. Mural Paintings in Greek and Roman Sanctuaries, Amsterdam 2011; with P.G.P. Meyboom Le decorazioni dipinte e marmoree della Domus Aurea di Nerone a Roma I-II, Leuven/Paris/Walpole 2013; Pompeii’s Ashes. The Reception of the Cities Buried by Vesuvius in Literature, Music, and Drama, Boston/Berlin/Munich 2015. Claire Stocks is Lecturer for Classics at Newcastle University (UK). Her research interests include Augustan and post Augustan epic, especially Flavian epic. She is the author of The Roman Hannibal: Remembering the Enemy in Silius Italicus’ Punica, Liverpool, 2014 and co-editor of Horace’s Epodes: Context, Intertexts, and Reception, Oxford, 2016, and Fides in Flavian Poetry, Toronto, 2019. She is currently working on a monograph on the representation of Space in Domitianic Rome.