Annetta Alexandridis

Annetta Alexandridis studies the art and archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome with a particular interest in gender studies, animal studies, and the media of archaeology. Her first book researched how the women of the Roman Imperial families from Livia to Julia Domna (late 1st century BCE to early 3rd century CE) were represented in public (Die Frauen des römischen Kaiserhauses. Eine Untersuchung ihrer bildlichen Darstellung von Livia bis Iulia Domna; von Zabern, 2004). It argues that their imagery as promoted in statues, coins, inscriptions, honorary titles, and funerary orations helped establish the political and public role of these women – a function the political system itself (a monarchy staged as a republic) did not provide.