Les descriptions de Rome connues sous le nom de catalogues Régionnaires (Curiosum et Notitia) constituent une source aussi unique qu’irremplaçable sur de multiples aspects de la vie dans la mégapole. Pourtant, la bibliographie ne s’accorde ni sur le lieu, la date et le cadre de production, ni sur la fonction des données quantifiées, ni sur leur degré de fiabilité. Les incertitudes sont, pour une part, liées à une tradition textuelle complexe dont il est aujourd’hui nécessaire de reprendre l’étude. En effet, l’analyse des principes suivis par les éditeurs précédents et la découverte récente de nouveaux manuscrits justifient une nouvelle édition. L’attention est ici attirée sur un témoin du Curiosum identifié au début de l’année 2019, qui procure des informations inédites et invite à reconsidérer le stemma de cette recension.

This chapter deals with the relevance of epigraphic sources for the study of internal hierarchies within the lower strata of Roman society. Produced by the 'Romans from below' themselves, inscriptions provide access to a prima facie experience of the subaltern world, independent from literary sources and their aristocratic prism. However, as documents intended for public display, they are also rhetorical constructs built on standards and conventions that need to be decoded. The context of southern Gaul during the early Empire seems a favourable one to analyse, since elements of social, legal or economic differentiation were numerous. The local documentation, with its thousands of inscriptions, allows such an investigation. Indeed, despite the difficulties in identifying the profile of what we should call a 'subaltern' Roman (in other words, in describing who is 'below' and how this 'below' functions), the case of southern Gaul allows us to go beyond vague assertions and highlight a clear social complexity.

This first and introductory chapter is divided into five sections. The authors start by presenting the reasons for writing an ancient history 'from below' at this specific juncture, at the beginning of the 2020s, and by highlighting the political implications of this book. They then present how the field of 'history from below' was constituted in the first place and how it developed in recent decades. The third section turns specifically to the field of ancient history, explaining not only why ancient historians, as a rule, did not participate in the developments that from the 1960s to the 1980s consolidated 'history from below' as a new way of doing history but also how the recent and burgeoning interest in the study of 'ordinary people' in antiquity developed. The fourth section outlines the main concepts and lines of inquiry that have oriented the project. The chapter concludes with an overview of the structure of the book, sketching the main objectives of the subsequent chapters.

NERO AND THE FIRE OF ROME - (J.J.) Walsh The Great Fire of Rome. Life and Death in the Ancient City. Pp. xii + 174, ills, maps. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. Paper, US59.95). ISBN: 978-1-4214-3371-4 (978-1-4214-3370-7 hbk). - Volume 70 Issue 2

works on the Tiberian age, such as E. Champlin’s ‘Tiberius the Wise’, Historia 57 (2008), 408–25 or A. Pettinger’s The Republic in Danger: Drusus Libo and the Succession of Tiberius (2012). Despite these technicalities that catch the attention of the ancient scholar, the book is written in an engaging and vivid tone. Readers might feel like they are experiencing the events as they happen and learning about a period of Roman history that is often neglected by literature on the ancient world addressed to a wider public. But the wider public also deserves to see the agendas, the biases and the complexity behind the tale of Tiberius as well as the ‘story’ itself.

Des recherches archéologiques aériennes et sous-marines, menées à partir de 1975, ont permis de repérer une concentration de stèles funéraires et d’autels antiques par 4 à 5 m de profondeur au centre de l’anse Saint-Gervais, à Fos-sur-Mer. Vingt monuments ont été remontés entre 1975 et 1977, puis un dernier en 1994. Parmi eux, cinq stèles inscrites jettent un éclairage nouveau, quoique furtif, sur la population cosmopolite qui fréquenta le port antique au moment de sa pleine activité. L’étude des éléments lapidaires, couplée à celle des archives de fouilles, ainsi qu’une reprise des recherches de terrain à travers deux campagnes de prospection acoustique suivies de deux journées de prospection à vue, permettent de proposer une première synthèse des connaissances sur ce gisement dont la nature exacte reste encore incertaine : nécropole submergée ou blocs de réemploi ?