Alison E. Cooleyis a Britishclassicistspecialising in Latinepigraphy.She is a professor at theUniversity of Warwickand former head of its Department of Classics and Ancient History. In 2004, she was awardedThe Butterworth Memorial Teaching Award.[1]

Alison E. Cooley
NationalityBritish
Academic background
Alma materOxford University
Academic work
DisciplineClassics
Sub-disciplineEpigraphy
InstitutionsWarwick University

Writing

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Cooley has published widely on epigraphy as well as organising conferences on the topic. Bohdan Chernyukh, writing inCensurae Librorum,praised the "meticulous analysis and description of the inscriptions" in Cooley'sCambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy(2012).[2]TheBryn Mawr Classical Reviewsaid of the second edition (2014) of her sourcebook onPompeiiandHerculaneumthat it was "an essential resource for anyone researching or teaching about Pompeii".[3]

Selected publications

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  • Pompeii: A Sourcebook,Routledge, London, 2004. (with M.G.L. Cooley) (Second edition 2014 asPompeii and Herculaneum: A Sourcebook)
  • Res Gestae divi Augusti,edition with introduction, translation, and commentary. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2009.
  • "History and Inscriptions, Rome" inThe Oxford History of Historical Writing,Vol. 1, eds. A. Feldherr & G. Hardy.Oxford University Press,Oxford, 2011, pp. 244–64.
  • The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy,Cambridge University Press,Cambridge, 2012.ISBN9780521549547
  • The Senatus consultum de Cn. Pisone Patre,Cambridge University Press,Cambridge, 2023. ISBN 9781108714563

References

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  1. ^Dr Alison Cooley.Department of Classics and Ancient History,University of Warwick,11 April 2012. Retrieved 13 May 2012.Archived here.
  2. ^Bohdan Chernyukh, review of Alison E. Cooley,The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy,inCensurae Librorum,pp. 128-129.
  3. ^Alison E. Cooley, M.G.L. Cooley,Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Sourcebook.Review by Jacqueline Frost DiBiasie,Bryn Mawr Classical Review2014.08.03.