Henrik Mouritsen is Professor of Roman History at King's College London. He has published widely on aspects of Roman history from local and republican politics to slavery, manumission, and epigraphy. His books include Elections, Magistrates and Municipal Elite (1988), Italian Unification (1998), Plebs and Politics in the Late Roman Republic (Cambridge, 2001), and The Freedman in the Roman World (Cambridge, 2011).
