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Roberta Stewart is Professor of Classical Studies at Dartmouth College, where she teaches Roman History, Comparative Slavery, Latin, Greek, and “War Stories” (with the Comparative Literature Program). Stewart regularly co-directs the Classics Department’s Roman Foreign Study program.  

She publishes on Roman government, Numismatics, Roman religion, Roman slavery, and Latin Lexicography. Her monographs include 1998’s Public Office in Early Rome and 2012’s Plautus and Roman Slavery. Her current projects include a forthcoming paper on gender and slavery titled “Seeing Fotis: Gender and Slavery in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses”; work on Roman allotment and assignment of military commands in the second century BCE in “Coping with the Lot”; and research on modern receptions of Roman drama in “Roman Slavery and American Reconstruction: Plautus' Rudens in Performance at Washington University St. Louis in 1884”. For twelve years she has led a book group in the Upper Valley of Vermont and elsewhere for combat veterans called “From Troy to Baghdad”.