Sara Elise Phang

Sara Elise Phang, Ph.D, received a doctorate in Roman history from Columbia University (New York). She is the author of The Marriage of Roman Soldiers (13 B.C. - A.D. 235): Law and Family in the Imperial Army (Brill, 2001), a legal and social history of Roman soldiers' wives and families in the early Empire, which received the Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities in Classical Studies. She is the author of Roman Military Service: Ideologies of Discipline in the Late Republic and Early Principate (Cambridge, 2008), an exploration of the ideals of discipline in the imperial army, including training, drill, pay, daily work, consumption, and leisure.

She is a coeditor of and contributor of many articles in Conflict in Ancient Greece and Rome: The Definitive Political, Social, and Military Encyclopedia (ABC-CLIO, 2016). She is a contributor to Lee L. Brice and Elizabeth Greene's forthcoming collection Present but Not Accounted For: Women and the Roman Army (Cambridge).

Her most recent work is Daily Life of Women in Ancient Rome (Greenwood, 2022), a survey of the legal, economic, and social status of women in ancient Rome in the last two centuries of the Republic and first two centuries of the Empire, following their life course from birth through marriage to death and commemoration. Elite Roman women played a significant role in the public and religious life of the smaller cities and towns of the empire. The book also explores what we can know about non-elite women, both free and enslaved. Daily Life of Women in Ancient Rome is a volume in ABC-CLIO's Daily Life through History series.