Popular culture in the ancient world Introduction: approaching popular culture in the ancient world Lucy Grig Part I. Classical Greece The popular culture of the Athenian institutions: authorized popular culture and unauthorized elite culture in classical Athens Mirko Canevaro Humouring the masses: the theatre audience and highs and lows of Aristophanic comedy James Robson Part II. Rome Popular public opinion in a nutshell: nicknames and non elite political culture in the late republic Cristina Rosillo Lopez Plebeian culture in the city of Rome from the late republic to the early empire Cyril Courrier Pollios paradox: popular invective and the transition to empire Tom Hawkins The music of power and the power of music: studying popular auditory culture in ancient Rome Alexandre Vincent Part III. The Roman Empire: Greece Rome and beyond The intellectual life of the Roman non elite Jerry Toner Divination and popular culture Victoria Jennings Childrens cultures in Roman Egypt April Pudsey Part IV. Late antiquity Interpreting the Kalends of January in late antiquity: a case study for late antique popular culture Lucy Grig Popular Christianity and lived religion in late antique Rome: seeing magic in the catacombs Nicola Denzey Lewis Popular theology in late antiquity Jaclyn Maxwell Communication and plebeian sociability in late antiquity: the view from North Africa in the age of Augustine Julio Cesar Magalhaes de Oliveira