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Quid est nauta?
Quid est nauta?
(What is a sailor?)
(What is a sailor?)
Amator pelagi, firmi desertor, contemptor vitae mortisque, undae cliens...
Amator pelagi, firmi desertor, contemptor vitae mortisque, undae cliens...
(A lover of the sea, a deserter of the land, and a despiser of life and death, a client of the waves...)
(A lover of the sea, a deserter of the land, and a despiser of life and death, a client of the waves...)
Epictetus the Philosopher
Altercatio Hadriani Augusti et Epicteti Philosophi
110 C.E.
Aptly termed “invisible Romans” by Robert Knapp, nautae in the Roman maritime world were citizens, freedmen, and slaves largely absent from the histories of Rome. This dissertation will focus on making the invisible more visible. Employing a holistic and anthropological approach, “Quid est nauta: Reconstructing the Sociocultural Existence of Roman Nautae” will examine the sociocultural existence and habitus of oft-overlooked Roman nautae, specifically merchant sailors, during the Roman Imperial period utilizing a broad range of archaeological data supplemented with textual, epigraphic, and iconographic information.
Focus of my P.h.D. studies and dissertation work.
Publications
Publications
Matheny, Rachel. 2021. "The Sociocultural Existence of Roman Merchant Sailors". Center for Maritime Archaeology & Conservation: News & Reports 5.2: 13-15.
Presentations
Presentations
The Uncertainty of Sailing: "Hidden" Coin Hoards in the Late Roman Imperial Period
Society for Historical Archaeology January 2020
Reconstructing the Social Lives of Roman Nautae Using Personal Effects Recovered from Shipwrecks
Archaeological Institute of America January 2019
Superstition, Ritual, and Religion Among Ancient and Ear Modern Seafarers
with Annaliese Dempsey
Society for Historical Archaeology
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