Staff profile

I joined the Department of Classics and Ancient History in 2021, having previously worked at Birkbeck, the CNRS at Aix-Marseille Université and King's College London.

I am an ancient historian; the focus of my research is the cultural and historical significance of Latin epigraphy, from antiquity to the present day. I am interested in how people – both ancient and modern – responded to Latin inscriptions, how their texts were composed and read, and what epigraphy contributed to the landscape of antiquity.

• Latin Epigraphy
• Epigraphic forgery
• Digital Epigraphy
• Roman Tripolitania
• History of Collecting

• 2019:

  Leverhulme Early Career Fellow

  : Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
• 2018:

  Rome Award, British School at Rome

  : Rome Award, British School at Rome

Chapter in book

• The (lost) Arch of Titus: the visibility and prominence of victory in Flavian Rome
  
  Barron, C. (2020). The (lost) Arch of Titus: the visibility and prominence of victory in Flavian Rome. In K. Berthelot (Ed.), Reconsidering Roman power: Roman, Greek, Jewish and Christian perceptions and reactions [online]. Publications de l’École française de Rome. https://doi.org/10.4000/books.efr.4809
• Latin inscriptions and the eighteenth-century art-market
  
  Barron, C. (2018). Latin inscriptions and the eighteenth-century art-market. In A. Guzmán & J. Martinez (Eds.), Animo Decipiendi: Rethinking fakes and authorship in Classical, Late Antique, & Early Christian Works (pp. 265-285). Barkhuis.
• Sacred to Hercules Invictus. “A very curious inscription” in the collection of Thomas Hollis
  
  Barron, C. (2017). Sacred to Hercules Invictus. “A very curious inscription” in the collection of Thomas Hollis. In A. Guzmán & I. Velázquez (Eds.), De Falsa et Vera Historia (pp. 131-144). Ediciones Clásicas.

Journal Article

• Cardinal Alessandro Albani’s epigraphic collections and their influence on collecting in the eighteenth century
  
  Barron, C. (2021). Cardinal Alessandro Albani’s epigraphic collections and their influence on collecting in the eighteenth century. Studi Sul Settecento, 37, 185-200.
• ‘amator concordiae, ornator patriae. The Latinisation of Punic titles in early imperial Lepcis Magna’
  
  Barron, C. (2020). ‘amator concordiae, ornator patriae. The Latinisation of Punic titles in early imperial Lepcis Magna’. Libyan Studies, 51, 10-23.