Michael P. Fronda, Associate Professor
Associate Dean (Academic), Faculty of Arts
MA,听PhD History (Ohio State University)
BA History,听BA Classics (Cornell University)
Research areas: Roman Italy; history of the Roman republic and early empire; interstate relations
Professor Fronda's research centers on Pre-Roman and Roman Italy. His monograph Between Rome and Carthage: Southern Italy in the Second Punic War听(Cambridge, 2010) examines听the varied responses of Italian allied communities (socii) to Hannibal's invasion of the peninsula and his string of stunning victories in the early years of the war. The book highlights how each indivdual community's decision to defect or remain allied with Rome was strongly influenced by听local political, economic and diplomatic conditions, including political factionalism and interstate rivalries. His current research project examines how Rome's hegemony in Italy during the middle and late Republic was reinforced by the display of images, gestures, behaviors, rituals and so forth, enacted before an Italian听audience. Formerly Prof. Fronda was a senior associate of the听Pyla-Koutsopetria Archaeological Project.听He has conducted archaeological fieldwork in Cyprus, Greece and Italy. He has held an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship (host institution: Technische Universit盲t Dresden) and has been awarded funding through the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).
Selected Publications:听
Monograph
Fronda, Michael. P. 2010. Between Rome and Carthage: Southern Italy in the Second Punic War. Cambridge University Press. 404 pp.
Edited Volume
Jeremy Armstrong and Michael P. Fronda (eds), Romans at War: Soldiers, Citizens and Society in the Roman Republic. Routledge, 2020. 374 pp.
Articles and Book Chapters
(co-authored with Jeremy Armstrong) 鈥淲riting about Romans at War,鈥� in Armstrong/Fronda, Romans at War: Soldiers, Citizens and Society in the Roman Republic (2020) 1-16.
鈥淭itus Quinctius Flamininus鈥� Italian triumph,鈥� in Armstrong/Fronda, Romans at War: Soldiers, Citizens and Society in the Roman Republic (2020) 170-190.
(co-authored with Chandra Giroux) 鈥淪partan Strategies in the Early Peloponnesian War, 431-425 BCE,鈥� Phoenix 73 (2019) 293-312.
Fronda, Michael P. and Gauthier, Fran莽ois, "Italy and Sicily in the Second Punic War: Multipolarity, Minor Powers, and Local Military Entrepreneurialism" in听Toni 脩aco del Hoyo and Fernando L贸pez S谩nchez (eds),听War, Warlords, and Interstate Relations in the Ancient Mediterranean (Brill 2017) 308-325
"The Italians in the Second Punic War," in G. Farney and G. Bradley, The Peoples of Ancient Italy (De Gruyter听2017) 215-230.
"The Italiote League and Southern Italy," in H. Beck and P. Funke (eds), Federalism in Greek Antiquity (Cambridge 2015) 386-402
鈥淲hy Roman Republicanism: the Historical Context of its Emergence,鈥� in Dean Hammer (ed), The Blackwell Companion to Ancient Democracies and Republics: A Comparative Approach (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell 2014) 44-64.
鈥淪outhern Italy: Sanctuary, Pan膿gyris and Italiote Identity,鈥� in P. Funke (ed), Greek federal states and their sanctuaries. Stuttgart: Steiner, 2013) 123-138.
鈥淭wo notes of the Sententia Minuciorum (CIL听I.2 584), lines 44-45,鈥� Zeitschrift f眉r Papyrologie und Epigrafik 185 (2013) 262-266.
鈥淧rivata hospitia, beneficia publica? Consul(ar)s, local elite, and Roman rule in Italy鈥� in F. Pina Polo and H. Beck (eds), Consuls and Res Publica: Holding High Office in the Roman Republic (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011) 232-256.
"Polybius 3.40, the foundation of Placentia, and the Roman calendar (218-217 BC)," Historia 60 (2011)听425-457.
"Hannibal: Tactics, Strategy and Geostrategy," in Dexter Hoyos (ed.), A Companion to the Punic Wars (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell 2011)听242-259.
Beck, Hans and Fronda, Michael P. "The Cartoceto Bronzes. Enigma and History," The Ancient World 40 (2009)听15-41.
"Hegemony and Rivalry: The Revolt of Capua Revisited," Phoenix 61 (2007)听83-108.
"Livy 9.20 and Early Roman Imperialism in Apulia, Historia 55 (2006)听397-417.
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