Lauren Hackworth Petersen is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Delaware. A scholar of Roman art and architecture, she has published in Arethusa and The Art Bulletin, among other journals, and has received grants from the American Academy in Rome, the National Endowment of the Humanities, the Getty Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies.
Introduction: the Roman freedman, 'freedman art', and Trimalchio
Public life and assimilation
1. Rebuilding Pompeii: the Popidius family and the Temple of Isis
2. The visibility of the Augustales in Pompeii
3. Memory-making in the funerary realm: the tomb of the baker in Rome
Social integration: domus and family
4. 'Freedman taste' in domus decoration
5. To claim a domus: the house of the Caecilii at Pompeii
6. Family and community at the Isola Sacra Necropolis: the Tomb of the Varii.
