John Serrati is an adjunct professor in Classics and Religious Studies at the University of Ottawa. He has recently been a visiting professor at the Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia. His main area of research examines gender in ancient martial cultures. He has also published on the Hellenistic world, the Roman Republic, and ancient Sicily. Recent co-edited volumes include Ageless Aretē: Essays From the 6th Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Hellenic Heritage of Sicily and Southern Italy (2022) and Money and Power in the Roman Republic (2016).

Bibliography

Books Authored

• Rice, R.S., S. Anglim, P. Jestice, ‎ S. Rusch, and‎ J. Serrati. (2002). Fighting Techniques of the Ancient World 3000 BC-AD 500: Equipment, Combat Skills, and Tactics. New York: St Martin’s.

Books Edited

• (2022, September). Ageless Aretē: Essays From the 6th Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Hellenic Heritage of Sicily and Southern Italy (H.L. Reid and J. Serrati, Eds.). Siracusa: Parnassos.
• (2020, June). Conflict and Competition: Agōn in Western Greece (H.L. Ried, J. Serrati, and T. Sorg, Eds.). Sioux City: Parnassos.
• (2016, December). Money and Power in the Roman Republic (H. Beck, M. Jehne, and J. Serrati, Eds.). Brussels: Latomus.
• (2000). Sicily from Aeneas to Augustus: New Approaches in Archaeology and History (C.J. Smith and J. Serrati, Eds.). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Refereed Chapters In Books

• (2026, May). War as Controlled Violence: Masculinity and Female Agency in the Roman Republic. In L. Gilhaus (Ed.), The Companion to War and Violence in the Ancient Mediterranean World (pp. 420-445). Leiden: Brill.
• (2024, November). Soldiers, Settlers, and Citizens: Katoikoi in the Seleukid Empire. In A. Coşkun and B. Scolnic (Eds.), The Seleukids at War: Recruitment, Composition, and Organization (pp. 31-48). Stuttgart: Steiner.
• (2024, November). Mercenary Recruitment and Settlement in Hellenistic Egypt: The Failure of the Kleruchy System. In F. Lopez Sanchez, M. Bueno, D. Martinez Chico (Eds.), Coins, Riches and Lands: Paying for Military Manpower in Antiquity and Early Medieval Times (pp. 19-28). Oxford: Oxbow.
• (2022, July). Gender and the Ritual Lament: Women as the Arbiters of Aretē and Virtus. In H.L. Reid and J. Serrati (Eds.), Ageless Aretē: Essays From the 6th Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Hellenic Heritage of Sicily and Southern Italy (pp. 247-272). Siracusa: Parassos.
• (2020, October). Religion and Roman Warfare in the Middle Republic. In M.P.J. Dillon, C. Matthew, and M. Schmitz (Eds.), Religion and Classical Warfare. II: The Roman Republic (pp. 17-53). Barnsley: Pen and Sword.
• (2020, June). Agōn Sikelia: The Hannibalic War and the (Re)Organization of Roman Sicily. In H.L. Reid, J. Serrati, and T. Sorg (Eds.), Conflict and Competition: Agon in Western Greece (pp. 69-93). Sioux City: Parnassos.
• (2019). Take the Sword Away From That Girl! Combat, Gender, and Vengeance in the Mid-Republic. In J. Armstrong and M.P. Fronda (Eds.), The Romans at War: Soldier, Citizens, and Society in the Roman Republic (pp. 116-133). London: Routledge.
• (2016). The Financing of Conquest: Roman Interaction with Hellenistic Tax Laws. In H. Beck, M. Jehne, and J. Serrati (Eds.), Money and Power in the Roman Republic (pp. 97-113). Brussels: Latomus.
• (2013). Government and Warfare. In H. Beck (Ed.), A Companion to Ancient Greek Government (pp. 317-331). Oxford: Blackwell.
• (2013). The Hellenistic World at War: Stagnation or Development?. In B. Campbell and L. Trittle (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Warfare in the Classical World (pp. 179-198). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• (2013). Imperial Expansion and the Fall of the Roman Republic: Post Hoc, Propter Hoc. In D. Hoyos (Ed.), The Companion to Roman Imperialism (pp. 155-168). Leiden: Brill.
• (2011). The Rise of Rome to 264. In D. Hoyos (Ed.), The Blackwell Companion to the Punic Wars (pp. 9-27). Oxford: Blackwell.
• (2007). Warfare and the State. In P. Sabin, H. van Wees, and L.M. Whitby (Eds.), The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare (pp. 461-497). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• (2000). Garrisons and Grain: Sicily between the Punic Wars. In C.J. Smith and J. Serrati (Eds.), Sicily from Aeneas to Augustus: New Approaches in Archaeology and History (pp. 115-133). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Refereed Journal Articles

• (2015). Éditer les fragments des historiens romains. Latomus, 74, 1077-1083.
• Covino, R. and J. Serrati. (2012). Euripides’ Bacchae and the Greek Theatre in Syracuse. Didaskalia, 9, 38-44. Retrieved from http://www.didaskalia.net/issues/9/8
• (2011). Neptune’s Altars: The Treaties Between Rome and Carthage (509-226 BC). The Best Classical Scholarship of the Last Sixty Years: Classical Quarterly Special Issue, 100-121.

(republication of 2006 article)

• (2008). A Syracusan Private Altar and the Development of Ruler-Cult in Hellenistic Sicily. Historia, 57, 80-91.
• (2006). Neptune’s Altars: The Treaties Between Rome and Carthage (509-226 BC). Classical Quarterly, 66, 113-134.

Non-Refereed Journal Articles

• (2009). Ancient Labour Action and the Secessio Plebis. Locus, 39(2), 51-52.
• (1997). Ammianus Marcellinus on Siege Warfare. Archaeo, 4, 53-62.

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Keywords
Borders; Space and Spatiality; Gender; State Formation; Hellenistic Monarchies; Polis; Religion;