American historian at UMass Amherst who wrote The Sorrows of the Ancient Romans and Roman Honor — examining the psychological and emotional dimensions of Roman culture, particularly its obsession with honor, shame, and public visibility.
Creates the emotional and psychological history of Roman culture — Barton's analysis of Roman honor as the central organizing value of Roman social life (combining shame as a social control mechanism with the gladiatorial theater as its extreme expression) provides the deepest account of what it felt like to be Roman.
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