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Since 2010, Marietta Horster has held the Chair of Ancient History at the University of Mainz. Her research focuses on the organisation of Greek and Roman cults, the imperial and late antique administration, administration and prosopography, as well as forms and conditions of the transfer of knowledge and the transmission of textual culture in antiquity. Since 2018, she has been the project manager of the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences.

Since 2010, Marietta Horster has been holding the Chair of Ancient History at Mainz University. Her research focus is the organisation of Greek and Roman cults, Roman imperial and late antique administration, organisation and prosopography, the transfer of knowledge and the transmission of textual culture in the ancient world. Since 2018 she is director of the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften.

• Land ownership of Greek sanctuaries in archaic and classical times, (History of the Religion attempts and preliminary work 53), Berlin (De Gruyter) 2004.
• Building inscriptions of Roman emperors. Investigations on inscription practice and building activity in the west of the Roman Empire (Historia Einzelschriften 157), Stuttgart (Steiner) 2001.
• Literary testimonies of imperial building activity (Contributions to Ancient Studies Vol.91), Stuttgart/Leipzig (Teubner) 1997.

• Studia epigraphica et militaria. In memoriam Miroslava Mirkovic, ed. by M. Horster, O. Pelcer-Vujačić, S. Ferjančić, Berlin 2024 (Series: CIL Auctarium 8).
• Carmina Latina Epigraphica. Developments, Dynamics, Preferences, ed. by M. Horster, Berlin 2023 (Series: CIL Auctarium 7).
• The Impact of Empire on Landscapes, ed. by M. Horster, N. Hächler, Leiden 2022 (Series: Impact of Empire 41).
• Praeneste tra epigrafia e archeologia, ed. by M. Horster, M.G. Granino Cecere, Berlin 2021 (Series: CIL Auctarium 5).
• Church Building in Cyprus (4th to 7th Centuries): A Mirror of Intercultural Contacts in the Eastern Mediterranean, ed. by M. Horster, D. Nicolaou S. Rogge, Münster/New York 2018 (Series: Writings of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Cyprus Studies 12).
• Reading and Writing in the Roman Provinces. Ductus II, ed. by Marietta Horster, Markus Scholz. Mainz 2015 (Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums).
• Augustus. Ruler at the turn of the times, ed. by Marietta Horster, Florian Schuller, Regensburg 2014.
• Cities and Priests, Cult personnel in Asia Minor and the Aegean Islands form the Hellenistic to the Imperial Periody, ed. by Marietta Horster, Anja Klöckner, Series RGVV Vol. 64, Berlin 2013.
• Civic Priests, Cult personnel in Athens from the Hellenistic Period to late Antiquity, ed. by Marietta Horster, Anja Klöckner, Series RGVV Vol. 58, Berlin 2012.
• Condensing Texts – Condensed Texts, ed. by Marietta Horster, Christiane Reitz, Stuttgart 2010 (Palingenesia 98).
• Transfer of knowledge in poetic form, ed. by Marietta Horster, Christiane Reitz, Series Palingenesia Vol. 85, Stuttgart 2005.
• Ancient specialist writers: Literary discourse and social context, ed. by Marietta Horster, Christiane Reitz, Series: Palingenesia Vol. 80, Stuttgart 2003.

• Tibère – Un successeur à la carte? In: A. Della Rosa, F. Hurlet (éd.) La dernière époque augustéenne, Bordeaux 2025, 55–71.
• Un « Companion to Roman Prosopography »: un défi spécifique à l’histoire de l’Antiquité tardive ?, Revue des Études Tardo-antiques 12, 2022/23, 159–168.
• Normativity: Editing Latin Inscriptions, in: G. Galdi, S. Aerts, A. Papini (eds.), Varietate delectamur: Multifarious Approaches to Synchronic and Diachronic Variation in Latin. Selected Papers from the 14th International Colloquium on Late and Vulgar Latin (Ghent, 2022), Turnhout 2025, 779–792.
• Ideal Exclusivity and Pragmatic Flexibility: Offices and Liturgies for ‘outsiders’ in Late Classical and Hellenistic Cities, in: L. Cecchet, Ch. Lasagni (eds.), Citizenship Practised, Citizenship Imagined. Multiple Ways of Experiencing Citizenship in the Greek World, Stuttgart 2025, 191–224.
• From shepherd existence in the Northwest Provinces, in: The measure is science. Memorial for Hans-Joachim Schalles, ed. by R. Grüßinger, D. Schmitz, Petersberg 2024, 116–128.
• L’avenir de l’épigraphie – The future of epigraphy, in: P. Fröhlich, Navarro (eds.), L’épigraphie au XXIe siècle. Actes du XVIe Congrès Internationale d’Épigraphie Grecque et Latine. Bordeaux, 29 août-02 septembre 2022, Bordeaux 2024 (Scripta Antiqua), 423–438.
• Cult Economy in the Eastern Provinces of the Roman Empire, in: A. Wilson, N. Ray, A. Trentacosta (Hgg.), The Economy of Roman Religion (Oxford Studies on the Roman Economy), Oxford 2023, 156–179.
• Social factors in Latinization: Perspectives and Future Challenges, in: A. Mullen, A. Willi (eds.), Social Factors in the Latinization of the Roman West, Oxford 2023, 286-296.
• Religious expansionism? Roman priestly activities outside republican Rome, Archiv für Religionsgeschichte 25/1, 2023, 359–378.
• Falsi and tituli and the asterisk-categories in the CIL, in: M. L. Caldelli (ed.), Falsi e falsari nell’epoca di Internet. False testimonianze. Copie, contraffazioni, manipolazioni e abusi del documento epigrafico antico (Studi Miscellanei, 42), Rom 51–62.
• Dissemination strategies of the Innovative Training Network (ITN) CARMEN, CARMEN Working papers 5, 2023, 1–9: http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-10028
• Temporal developments, regional Dynamics and individual preferences of inscribed poetry in the Latin speaking Roman empire, in: M. Horster (ed.), Carmina Latina Epigraphica. Developments, Dynamics, Preferences Berlin 2023, 1-11.
• Only the very best! Precious metals for the house of God(s), in: Religion in the Roman Empire 9, 2023, 48-70.
• Together with P. Hermankova, J. Prag: Digital Epigraphy in 2022: A Report from the Scoping Survey of the FAIR Epigraphy Project, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6610696 (32 pp.)
• Heterogenous Landscapes: Theories and Impact, in: N. Hächler, M. Horster (Hgg.), The Impact of Empire on Landscapes, Leiden 2022, 18-44.
• Sacred Personnel as Role Models in the Post-classical period, in: T. Scheer (ed.), Religion and Education in the Ancient Greek World, Tübingen 2022, 78-98.
• CIL e Praeneste, in: M. Horster, M.G. Granino Cecere (Hgg.), Praeneste tra epigrafia e archeologia, Berlin, 1-10.
• Together with F. Grieshaber: Digital workshop: Editing inscriptions, in A. Eich (Hg.), Editing and commenting on inscriptions. Contributions to editing practice, methodology and theory, Berlin 2021, 169-187.
• Hellenistic Festivals: Aspects of Economic Impact on Cities and Sanctuaries, in: A. Collar, T. M. Kristensen (eds.), Pilgrimage and Economy in the Ancient Mediterranean, Leiden/Boston 2020, 116-139.
• Apollo’s Servants. Cleaning the Sanctuary and Keeping Things in Order, In: T. Scheer (Hg.), Natur, Mythos, Religion im antiken Griechenland, Stuttgart 2019, 201-217.
• Small-minded, envious and chauvinistic: The self-shaping of Roman intellectuals, in: F. Pina-Polo (ed.), Xenophobia in the Ancient World, Barcelona 2019, 59-74.
• Foundation security in the Roman East: “Roman” sanctions and economic interests, in: K. Harter-Uibopuu (ed.), Epigraphic Notes: In memory of Peter Herrmann, Stuttgart 2019, 215-234.
• La actividad constructora de Adriano en el oriente (y el resto) del imperio. Una reconsideración, in: A. Caballos Rufino (ed.), De Traiano a Adriano – Roma matura, Roma mutans, Sevilla 2019, 441-458.
• History and stories in everyday life, in: Literacy in Ancient Everyday Life, ed. by A. Kolb, Berlin/Boston 2018, 363-386.
• Auguste dans la monnaie impériale du Haut-Empire, in: A. Daguet-Gagey S. Lefevbre (Hgg.), L’empereur Auguste et la mémoire des siècles (Artois Presses Université), Arras 2018, 199-222.
• Handbooks, Epitomes, and Florilegia: Late antique variations on the short form, (gem. mit Chr. Reitz), in: S. McGill, E. Watts (eds.) A Companion to Late Antique Literature. Oxford 2018, 431-450.
• Romans and Germans on the Middle Rhine, in: Völkermühle Europas – Migrationen an Rhein und Mosel, ed. by M. Matheus, Mainz 2018, 13-46. (with Arno Braun)
• Cult, in: The Oxford Handbook of the Second Sophistic, ed. by W. Johnson, D. Richter, Oxford/New York 2017, 597-612.
• Livius-Epitome: A late antique view of the (abbreviated) Roman Republic, in: S. Dusil, G. Schwedler, R. Schwitter (Hgg.), Exzerpieren – Kompilieren – Tradieren. Developments and strategies in dealing with the complexity of knowledge in late antiquity and early Middle Ages, Berlin (De Gruyter) 2017, 25-48.
• Inscribed honours for late antique provincial governors and senatorial officials, in: The Last statues of antiquity, ed. by R.R.R. Smith, B. Ward-Perkins, Oxford 2016, 241-248.
• Learning by Doing. Writing exercises on Ostraka, in: M. Horster, M. Scholz (Hg.), Ductus. Small inscriptions of Roman times, Mainz 2015,1-14.
• Natural Order and Order(liness) in Nature, in: K. Sporn, S. Ladstätter, M. Kerschner (Hgg.), Natur – Kult – Raum. Akten des internationalen Kolloquiums Paris – Lodron – Universität Salzburg, 20.-22. Jänner 2012, Wien 2015, 169-186.
• Dionysos-Thiasoi and Bakchoi in ‘public’ and ‘private’ cults, in: M. Zimmermann, A. Matthaei (Hg.), Stadtkultur im Hellenismus, Mainz 2014, 108-120.
• Urban Infrastructure and Euergetism outside the City of Rome, in: Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy, ed. by C. Bruun, J. Edmondson, Oxford 2014, 515-536.
• Coinage and images of the imperial family: local identity and Roman rule, JRA 26, 2013, 243-261.
• Priene: Civic priests and Koinon-Priesthoods in the Hellenstic Period, in: Cities and Priests, Cult personnel in Asia Minor and the Aegean Islands form the Hellenistic to the Imperial Periody, ed. by M. Horster, A. Klöckner, Berlin 2013, 177-208.
• Priestly Hierarchies in Cities of the Western Roman Empire? In: A. Caballos-Rufino (Hg.), Del municipio a la corte: la renovación de las elites romanas, Sevilla 2012, 289-310.
• Museum as a place of remembrance. The presentation of the Roman stone inscriptions in Mainz. In: M. Schnettger, J. Schneider (Hgg.), Verborgen – Verloren – Wiederentdeckt. Places of remembrance in Mainz from antiquity to the 20th century, Darmstadt 2012, 12-28.
• Princeps Iuventutis. Concept, realisation, representation. In: St. Benoist et al. (éds.), Figures d’empire, fragments de mémoire. Pouvoirs et identités dans le monde romain impérial IIe s. av. n. è – VI s. de n. è., Lille 2011, 73-103.
• Primary Education. In: The Oxford Handbook of Social Relations in the Roman World. Ed. by M. Peachin. Oxford 2011, S.84-99.
• Priests, priesthoods, cult personnel. Traditional and new approaches. In: Civic Priests, Cult personnel in Athens from the Hellenistic Period to late Antiquity, ed. by Marietta Horster, Anja Klöckner, Series RGVV Vol. 58, Berlin 2012, S.5-26.
• The tenure, appointment and eponymy of priesthoods and their (debatable) ideological and political implications, in: Civic Priests, Cult personnel in Athens from the Hellenistic Period to late Antiquity, ed. by Marietta Horster, Anja Klöckner, Series RGVV Vol. 58, Berlin 2012, S.161-208.
• Intellectual life in Alexandria in the 2nd century BC and the so-called expulsion of scholars, in: Egypt between internal strife and external pressure. The time of Ptolemaios’ VI. to VIII., ed. by A. Jördens, A. Quack, Wiesbaden 2011, 201-218.
• Religious Landscape and Sacred Ground: Relationships between Space and Cult in the Greek World. In: Revue de l’histoire des religions, 227 (2010), S. 435-458.
• Lysimache and the others: Some notes on the position of women in classical Athens, in: Epigraphic Studies in Honor of Stephen V. Tracy, ed. by G. Reger, F. X. Ryan, T. Winter, Bordeaux 2010, 171-186; 363-386.
• Some Notes on Grammarians in Plutarch, in: The Unity of Plutarch’s Work. ‘Moralia’ Themes in the ‘Lives’, Features of the ‘Lives’ in the ‘Moralia’, ed. by A. G. Nikolaidis, Berlin/New York 2008, 611-624.
• The Emperors’ family on coins (3rd century): Ideology of stability in times of unrest, in: The Impact of Crises on the Roman Empire, ed. by O. Hekster, G. de Kleijn, Leiden 2007, 291-309.
• The ‘Prosopographia Imperii Romani’ and New trends and Projects in Roman Prosopography, in: Prosopography Approaches and Applications A Handbook, ed. by K. Keats-Rohan, Oxford 2007, 231-240.
• Living on Religion: Professionals and their Personnel, in: A Companion to Roman Religion (Blackwell’s Companion to the Ancient World), ed. by J. Rüpke, Oxford 2007, 331-341.
• Die Olivenbäume der Athena und die Todesstrafe, in: Symposion 2003. Vorträge zur griechischen und hellenistischen Rechtsgeschichte, hrsg. v. H.-A. Rupprecht, Wien 2006, 167-185.
• (Female) priesthoods in Greek cities – Remarks on the change in tradition, in: The Impact of Imperial Rome on Religions, Ritual, and Religious Life in the Roman Empire, ed. by L. de Blois, P. Funke, J. Hahn, Leiden/Boston 2006, 194-207.
• Was bleibt von Vergils Georgica? Zur Rezeption von Lehrdichtung im 2. und 3. Jahrhundert n. Chr., in: Transfer of knowledge in poetic form, ed. by M. Horster, Chr. Reitz, Stuttgart 2005, 265-294.
• Statthalter von Thrakien unter Commodus, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 147, 2004, 247-258.
• Substitutions for Emperors and Members of the Imperial Families as Local Magistrates, in: Roman Rule and Civic Life: Regional Perspectives, ed. by L. De Ligt,
  E. A. Hemelrijk, H. Singor, Amsterdam 2004, 331-355.
• Literary elite? On the social context of Roman specialist writers, in: Ancient specialist writers: Literary discourse and social context, ed. by M. Horster, Chr. Reitz, Series: Palingenesia, Stuttgart 2003, 176-196.
• Ehrungen für weibliche Mitglieder des Kaiserhauses des 1.-3.Jhs., in: Grenzen der Macht: Zur Rolle der römischen Kaiserfrauen, hrsg. v. Christiane Kunst (Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge 3), Stuttgart 2000, 57-59.
• Ehrungen spätantiker Statthalter, Antiquité Tardive 6, 1998, 37-59.
• Kinderkarrieren?, in: Satura Lanx, Festschrift für Werner Krenkel, hrsg. v. Claudia Klodt, Spudasmata Bd.62, Hildesheim / Zürich /New York 1996, 223-238.