Publications

Online resources

The Inventory of Ancient Associations, available open–access (ISSN 2446-2500). (Containing over 2,000 articles on just as many associations)

Edited volumes

Gabrielsen, V. and C.A. Thomsen(eds.), Private Associations and the Public Sphere. Proceedings of a Symposium held at the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 9-11 September 2010. Scientia Danica. Series H, Humanistica, 8 vol. 9. Copenhagen: Det Kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab/The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. ISBN 9788773043899.

Gabrielsen, V. and M.D.C. Paganini (eds.), Private Associations in the Ancient World: Regulations and the Creation of Group Identity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. ISBN 978-1-108-83899-3. ebook ISBN 9781108979344. Pp. 301.

Skaltsa, S. and A. Cazemier (eds.), Associations and Religion in Context: The Hellenistic and Roman Eastern Mediterranean, Kernos Supplement 39. Centre international d’étude de la religion grecque antique, Liège. 2022 : ISBN 978-2-8762-304-1. Pp.381.

Doctoral dissertations

Evers, K.G., Wolds Apart Trading Together: The Organisation of Long-distance Trade between Rome and India in Antiquity. Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 32. Oxford 2017. ISBN 978-1-784917425.

Thomsen, C.A. The Politics of Association in Hellenistic Rhodes. New Approaches to Ancient Greek Institutional History. Edinburgh University Press. Edinburgh 2020. ISBN 978-1-4744-5255-7. Ebook ISBN 978-1-4744-5258-8.

Articles and contributions to conference or collective volumes

Vincent Gabrielsen (project director)

‘Naval and Grain Networks and Associations in Fourth Century Athens’, in: C. Taylor and K. Vlassopoulos (eds.), Communities and Networks in the Ancient Greek World. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2015: 177-212.

‘Introduction’ (with C.A. Thomsen), in V. Gabrielsen and C.A. Thomsen (eds.), Private Associations and the Public Sphere. Proceedings of a Symposium held at the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 9-11 September 2010. Scientia Danica. Series H, Humanistica, 8 vol. 9. Copenhagen 2015: Det Kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab/The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.

‘Associations, Modernization and the Return of the Private Network in Athens’, in C. Tiersch (Hg.), Die athenische Demokratie in 4. Jarhundert.Zwischen Modernisierung und Tradition. Stuttgart, 2016: Franz Steiner Verlag, 121-162.

‘Be Faithful and Prosper. Associations, Trust and the Economy of Security’, in K. Droß-Krüpe, S. Föllinger and K. Ruffing (Hg.), Wirtchaft und ihre Kulturelle Prägung/The Cultural Shaping of the Ancient Economy. Philippika 98. Wiesbaden, 2016: Harrassowitz Verlag, 87-111.

‘A New Inscription Attesting to Associations from the Necropolis of Rhodes, with an Appendix by Nicos Christodoulides’, Tyche. Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik 32 (2017) 15-40 (Pl. 5-10).

‘”Mankind's Most Secure and Durable Institution”: State, Credit, Trade and Capital Accumulation’, in: B. Woytek (ed.) Infrastructure and Distribution in Ancient Economies. Proceedings of a Conference held at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, 28-31 October 2014. Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse, Denkschriften 506. Band, Vienna 2018: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press: 25-43.

‘Social Networks, Associations and Trade’, in S. von Reden (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Ancient Greek Economy. Cambridge 2022: Cambridge University Press: 313-27.

Mario C. D. Paganini (postdoctoral fellow)

‘An account of a private association in Tebtynis: P.Tebt. II 573 descr.’, Aegyptus 100 (forthcoming 2021).

‘Keep it for yourself: private associations and internal dispute resolution in Ptolemaic Egypt’, in S. Waebens and K. Vandorpe (eds.), Two Sides of the Same Coin. Dispute Resolution in Greco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt (Studia Hellenistica), Peeters (forthcoming 2022).

(With V. Gabrielsen), ‘Associations’ regulations from the ancient Greek World and beyond: an introduction’, in V. Gabrielsen and M.C.D. Paganini (eds.), Private Associations in the Ancient Greek World: Regulations and the Creation of Group Identity, Cambridge University Press 2021.

(With V. Gabrielsen), ‘Conclusion: associations in their world’, in V. Gabrielsen and M.C.D. Paganini (eds.), Private Associations in the Ancient Greek World: Regulations and the Creation of Group Identity, Cambridge University Press 2021.

‘Religion and leisure: a gentry association of Hellenistic Egypt’, in A. Cazemier and S. Skaltsa (eds.), Associations and Religion in Context: the Hellenistic and Roman Eastern Mediterranean, Kernos Supplément 39 (forthcoming 2021): 225–45.‘Epigraphic habits of private associations in the Ptolemaic chora’, in A.K. Bowman and C. Crowther (eds.), The Epigraphy of Ptolemaic Egypt, Oxford 2020: 179–207.

‘Private associations and village life in early Roman Egypt’, in M. Langellotti and D.W. Rathbone (eds.), Village Institutions in Egypt in the Roman to Early Arab Periods (Proceedings of the British Academy 231), Oxford 2020: 41–65.

‘Cults for the rulers in private settings: gymnasia and associations of Hellenistic Egypt’, in S. G. Caneva (ed.), The Materiality of Hellenistic Ruler Cults (Kernos Supplément 36), Liège 2020: 125–45.

‘A terminological analysis of private associations in Ptolemaic Egypt’, in A. Di Natale and C. Basile (eds.), Atti del XVI Convegno di Egittologia e Papirologia: Siracusa, 29 settembre – 2 ottobre 2016 (Quaderni del Museo del Papiro XV), Siracusa 2018: 459–78.

‘Greek and Egyptian associations in Egypt: fact or fiction?’, in B. Chrubasik and D. King (eds.), Hellenism and the Local Communities of the Eastern Mediterranean, 400 BCE-250 CE, Oxford 2017: 131–54.

‘Decisional practices of private associations in Ptolemaic and early Roman Egypt’, in T. Derda, A. Łajtar, and J. Urbanik (eds.), Proceedings of the 27th International Congress of Papyrology (JJP Supplement), Warsaw 2016: 1889–901.

‘The gymnasium as lieu de sociabilité: the role of private associations’, in Topoi 20 (2015): 47–58.

Book reviews

M.C.D. Paganini, Review of Ph.F. Venticinque, Honor among Thieves. Craftsmen, Merchants, and Associations in Roman and Late Roman Egypt, Ann Arbor 2016, in Journal of Roman Studies 108 (2018): 232–3.

M.C.D. Paganini, Review of B.F. Van Oppen de Ruiter, Berenice II Euergetis. Essays in Early Hellenistic Queenship, New York 2015, in Classical Review 66.2 (2016): 488–9.

M.C.D. Paganini, Review of P. Fröhlich and P. Hamon (eds.) Groupes et associations dans les cités grecques (IIIe siècle av. J.-C. – IIe siècle apr. J.-C.), Genève 2013, in Topoi 18 (2013): 489–98.

‘Documentary practices of private associations from Egypt in the early Principate’, in D. Rathbone and A. Wilson (eds.), Documents and the Mechanics of Roman Rule, Cambridge University Press (submitted).

Jan-Mathieu Carbon (postdoctoral fellow)

‘The Festival of the Aloulaia and the Association of the Alouliastai: Notes Concerning the New Inscription from Larisa/Marmarini’, Kernos 29 (2016): 185-208.

‘The Place of Purity: Groups and Associations, Authority and Sanctuaries’, in V. Gabrielsen and M. Paganini (eds.), Private Associations in the Ancient Greek World: Regulations and the Creation of Group Identity, Cambridge 2021: 86-116.

‘Funerals and Foreigners, Founders and Functionaries: On the Boundary Stones of Associations from Kos’, in A. Cazemier and S. Skaltsa (eds.), Associations and Religion in Context: The Hellenistic and Roman Eastern Mediterranean, Kernos Suppl., 2021 (in press) 167-204.

Stella (Styliane) Skaltsa (postdoctoral fellow)

‘Associations and place: Regulating meeting places and sanctuaries’, in V. Gabrielsen and M.D.C. Paganini (eds.), Private Associations in the Ancient World: Regulations and the Creation of Group Identity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021: 117-143.

‘All About Asklepios? A Case-Study’, in S. Skaltsa and A. Cazemier (eds.), Associations and Religion in Context: The Hellenistic and Roman Eastern Mediterranean,  Kernos Supplement 39. Centre international d’étude de la religion grecque antique, Liège. Forthcoming (December 2021): 9-20.

‘Associations in Ptolemaic Thera: Names, Identity, and Gatherings ̓, in S. Skaltsa and A. Cazemier (eds.), Associations and Religion in Context: The Hellenistic and Roman Eastern Mediterranean,  Kernos Supplement 39. Centre international d’étude de la religion grecque antique, Liège. Forthcoming (December 2021): 125-147.

‘A Front-Row Seat to Interaction: Associations, Honours, and Festivals in Rhodes’, in S. Kravaritou & M. Stamatopoulou (eds.), Religious Interactions in the Hellenistic World. The Brill Series Cultural Interactions in the Mediterranean. Forthcoming. 

‘A Place for Honours? Honorific Practices and Culture in the Bath-Gymnasium' Complex in Roman Salamis’, in S. Rogge et al. (eds.), Salamis of Cyprus: History and Archaeology from The Earliest Times to The Late Antiquity. Conference in Nicosia 21-23 May 2015, Münster 2019: 659-677.

‘“Housing” private associations in Hellenistic Athens: three case-studies for a place to meet and worship the gods’, in O. R. Gutiérrez et al. (eds.), Los espacios de reunión de las asociaciones romanas. Diálogos desde la arqueología y la historia en homenaje a Bertrand Goffaux, Seville 2017: 79-92.