Rome, Empire of Plunder

Part I. Interaction -- The comedy of plunder: art and appropriation in Plautus' Menaechmi / Basil Dufallo -- Citation, spoliation, and the appropriation of the past in Livy's AUC / Ayelet Haimson Lushkov -- A second First Punic War: respoliation of Republican naval monuments in the urban and poetic landscapes of Augustan Rome / Thomas Biggs -- Buried treasure, hidden verses: (re)appropriating the Gauls of Pergamon in Flavian culture / Stefano Rebeggiani -- Interactions: microhistory as cultural history / Matthew P. Loar -- Part II. Distortion -- Repurposing plunder in Vitruvius' De Architectura / Marden Fitzpatrick Nichols -- Appropriating Egypt for the Ara Pacis Augustae / Jennifer Trimble -- Monolithic appropriation? The Lateran Obelisk compared / Grant Parker -- Distortion on parade: rethinking successful appropriation in Rome / Carolyn MacDonald -- Part III. Circulation -- The traffic in Shtick / Amy Richlin -- Agents of appropriation: shipwrecks, cargoes, and entangled networks in the late Republic / Carrie Fulton -- Import/export: empire and appropriation in the Gallus Papyrus from Qasr Ibrim / Micah Myers -- Annexing a shared past: Roman appropriations of Hercules-Melqart in the conquest of Hispania / Megan Daniels -- Circulation's thousand connectivities / Dan-el Padilla Peralta