Meghan DiLuzio

Education

• Ph.D., Classics, Princeton University, 2011
• M.A., Classics, Princeton University, 2009
• B.A., History, The College of New Jersey, summa cum laude, 2004

Specialties

Roman history; Roman religion; women in antiquity.

Research Interests

Meghan DiLuzio's research focuses on women and religion in Republican Rome. Her first book, A Place at the Altar: Priestesses in Republican Rome, examines the role of priestesses in civic cult in Rome, emphasizing their centrality to important public rituals and institutions. She is currently working on a book on the Roman festival calendar.

Publications

Book

• A Place at the Altar: Priestesses in Republican Rome. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016.

Articles and Book Chapters

• "Women in the Regia and the Republican Imagination," in Women and Space in Republican Rome, edited by Harriet I. Flower and Josiah Osgood. Forthcoming.

• “Religion and Gender in Ancient Rome,” in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion. Oxford University Press, November 2019. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199340378.013.634

• “The Women and the Lares: A Reconsideration of an Augustan Altar from the Capitoline in Rome,” co-authored with Harriet I. Flower. American Journal of Archaeology 123.2: 213-236, 2019.

• “Caesar as Salius: Reconsidering the Apex on Caesar’s Elephant Denarius.” American Journal of Philology 139.2: 249-276, 2018.

• “All Call Me Blessed: The Magnificat in Paulina’s Poem to Praetextatus.” Journal of Late Antiquity 10.2: 432-454, 2017.

• “Priestesses in Action: Ritual Instruments Employed by Roman Women,” in Gods, Objects, and Ritual Practice in Ancient Mediterranean Religion, edited by Sandra Blakely, 209-225. Studies in Ancient Mediterranean Religions No. 1. Bristol: Lockwood Press, 2017.