Notes on Contributors
Carsten Hjort Lange
Associate Professor, Aalborg University, is co-editor of Brill’s Historiography of Rome and Its Empire Series and co-founder of two current international Networks: Cassius Dio: Between History and Politics (with Jesper M. Madsen, George Hinge, Adam Kemezis & Josiah Osgood) and Internal War. Society, Social Order and Political Conflict in Antiquity (with Johannes Wienand & Henning Börm). He is the author of two monographs: Res Publica Constituta: Actium, Apollo and the Accomplishment of the Triumviral Assignment (2009) and Triumphs in the Age of Civil War: The Late Republic and the Adaptability of Triumphal Tradition (2016). He has written articles on political and military history and has co-edited a volume on the Roman Republican triumph with Frederik J. Vervaet (The Roman Republican Triumph: Beyond the Spectacle, 2014), as well as a volume on Cassius Dio (Cassius Dio: Greek Intellectual and Roman Politician, 2016) with Jesper M. Madsen.
Frederik Juliaan Vervaet
Associate Professor of Ancient History at the University of Melbourne, where he studies the political and socio-institutional history of the Roman Republic and the Early Empire, and Roman public law, and is the author of The High Command in the Roman Republic (2014) as well as co-editor of Despotism and Deceit in the Greco-Roman World (2010, with Andrew J. Turner & James H. Kim On Chong-Gossard), The Roman Republican Triumph: Beyond the Spectacle (2014, with Carsten H. Lange) and Eurasian Empires in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (2017, with Hyun Jin Kim & Selim Ferruh Adali).
Andrew J. Turner
Research fellow, the University of Melbourne, where he completed his dissertation on Flavian prose literature. He teaches in the Latin programme, and now specializes in the reception of the classical text before 1500, particularly Terence. He has been the co-editor of two volumes: (with James H. Kim On Chong-Gossard & Frederik J. Vervaet), Private and Public Lies: The Discourse of Despotism and Deceit in the Ancient World (2010), and (with Giulia Torello-Hill), Terence between Late Antiquity and the Age of Printing: Illustration, Commentary, and Performance (2015), and has also co-edited a DVD edition of a Terence manuscript for the Bodleian Library, Oxford: (with Bernard J. Muir), Terence’s Comedies (2015). He was a visiting fellow at the Flemish Academic Centre in Brussels in 2011/12 for the project ‘Classical Scholarship in Mediaeval Flanders’, and wrote articles on the manuscript traditions of Sallust and Terence. With Torello-Hill, he is finalizing a monograph, The Lyon Terence and the Classical Roman Stage: The first illustrated incunabulum of the six comedies (2019).
Richard Westall (Rome)
He is the author of a monograph (Caesar’s Civil War. Historical Reality and Fabrication, 2017) and the editor of a collective volume (Roman Civil Wars. A House Divided, 2018) as well as numerous articles on the historiography of the Roman civil wars of the Late Republic and the socio-economic history of Roman imperialism. He is also the author of a translation of Professor Lidia Perria’s textbook on Greek palaeography (2018 [2019]). He is currently preparing for publication (in 2019) a monograph on Constantius II and the creation of the basilica of St Peter in the Vatican in CE 357–359.
John Alexander Lobur
Associate Professor, University of Mississippi, specializes in the interface between culture and power in the transition from republic to empire, with emphases on the role of rhetoric, historiography, biography and exemplarity. He is the author of the book Consensus, Concordia and the Formation of Roman Imperial Ideology (2008), several related articles, and is currently completing a manuscript on the Roman author Cornelius Nepos and several articles for the upcoming Tacitus Encyclopedia for Wiley-Blackwell.
Henriette van der Blom
Senior Lecturer, University of Birmingham, is the author of two monographs: Cicero’s Role Models: The Political Strategy of a Newcomer (2010) and Oratory and Political Career in the Late Roman Republic (2016). She has published on Roman republican political history and its oratorical culture, and extends her interests in political oratory to modern public speech. She is the founder and Director of the Network for Oratory and Politics, is leading research projects into ancient and modern political speech, and is co-author of the Fragments of the Roman Republican Orators edition. She has co-edited volumes on Oratory and Politics in Republican Rome (with Catherine Steel, 2013), Institutions and Ideology in Republican Rome: speech, audience and decision (with Christa Gray & Catherine Steel, 2018) and Historical Consciousness and the Use of the Past in the Ancient World (with John Baines, Samuel Chen & Tim Rood, 2019).
Josiah Osgood
Is Chair and Professor of Classis at Georgetown University, where he has also served as Convener of the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics. He has published many articles and books on Roman history and Latin literature, including Caesar’s Legacy: Civil War and the Emergence of the Roman Empire (2006) and Turia: A Roman Woman’s Civil War (2014). He has also co-edited The Alternative Augustan Age, a volume arising from a conference held at the Villa Vergiliana in Cuma, Italy in 2016, and Cassius Dio and the Late Roman Republic, a volume arising from the Cassius Dio research network that he co-directed. He is currently working on a book about Rome’s destruction of Carthage.
Pedro López Barja de Quiroga
He is profesor titular of Ancient History at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain). He was visiting scholar in Wolfson College, Oxford in 2002/2003 and affiliate academic in University College London (2016). His main research interests are Roman slavery and Roman political thought (Cicero in particular). He has written two books on the first topic: Historia de la manumisión en Roma. De los orígenes a los Severos (2008) and Las relaciones de dependencia en las Instituciones de Gayo (2007) and one on the second: Imperio legítimo. El pensamiento político romano en tiempos de Cicerón (2007), as well as a handbook on Latin epigraphy (Epigrafía latina, 1993). He has also co-authored a Historia de Roma (2004) and co-edited (with E. García Fernández) a special issue of the academic journal Gerión titled de latinitate definienda, on Junian and municipal Latinity (2018). He is a member of the Spanish network on Roman Republican Studies, Libera Res Publica.
Dexter Hoyos
He is Honorary Associate Professor in the Classics and Ancient History Department of Sydney University, and Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, he has written on reading and comprehension skills in Latin, on the three Punic Wars, Roman imperialism, Carthaginian history and society, and Livy. His publications include Latin: How to Read it Fluently (1997), Unplanned Wars: the Outbreak of the First and Second Punic Wars (1998), Hannibal’s Dynasty (2003, rev. edn. 2005), Truceless War: Carthage’s Fight for Survival 241–237 bc (2007), The Carthaginians (2010), A Roman Army Reader (2013), and Mastering the West: Rome and Carthage at War (2015). He has edited two volumes, A Companion to the Punic Wars (2011) and A Companion to Roman Imperialism (2013), and has written the Introduction and Notes to the Oxford World’s Classics volumes Livy: the War with Hannibal. Books 21 to 30, translated by J.C. Yardley (2006), and Livy: Rome’s Italian Wars. Books 6–10, tr. Yardley (2013). He has also contributed the Introduction to J.C. Yardley’s new Loeb edition of Livy’s Fourth Decade (in Livy, vol. IX: 2017). A study of Roman imperialism and its impact is in the press.
Eleanor Cowan
Is Lecturer in Ancient History in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Sydney. She is the editor of Velleius Paterculus. Making History and the co-founder of the Australasian Roman Law Network. Her monograph Velleius Paterculus. Writing the Roman Revolution is nearing completion and her future projects include a study of the invention of Augustus by his Julio-Claudian successors and a study of the rule of law in Rome.
Michèle Lowrie
Is the Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Service Professor in Classics and the College at the University of Chicago. She has published Horace’s Narrative Odes (1997) and Writing, Performance, and Authority in Augustan Rome (2009), and edited several volumes, including Oxford Readings in Classical Studies: Horace, Odes and Epodes (2009) and, with Susanne Luedemann, Exemplarity and Singularity: Thinking through Particulars in Philosophy, Literature, and Law (2015). She works on Latin literature and politics with a strong interest in reception, mainly in French literature. Current books nearing completion are Security, A Roman Metaphor and Civil War and the Collapse of the Social Bond: The Roman Tradition at the Heart of the Modern, the latter jointly authored with Barbara Vinken.
Barbara Vinken
She has been Professor for French and Comparative Literature at LMU München (Germany) since 2004, with earlier appoints to professorships at the universities of Hamburg and Zurich. Barbara Vinken taught as a visiting scholar at New York University, Humboldt University (Berlin), the ENS (Paris), Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore), FU (Berlin) and the University of Chicago. Her main areas of research are the Renaissance, the French Novel from the 18th to the 20th Century, Deconstructive Feminism and Fashion Theory. Recent publications include Flaubert. Genèse et poétique du mythe II, (ed. with Pierre-Marc de Biasi & Anne Herschberg Pierrot, 2017) and Flaubert Postsecular. Modernity Crossed Out (2015).
Honora Howell Chapman
Is Professor of Classics and Humanities as well as Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities at California State University, Fresno. She is a contributing author to the Brill Josephus Project for Judean War, Book 2 (Mason, 2008) and Book 5 (forthcoming). She is also co-editor with Zuleika Rodgers of A Companion to Josephus (2016), which the Association of the College and Research Librarians, a division of the American Library Association, named a 2016 Choice Outstanding Academic Title. She served as co-chair of the Josephus Seminar/Group of the Society of Biblical Literature for nine years.
Federico Santangelo
Is Professor of Ancient History at Newcastle University. He is the author of Sulla, the Elites and the Empire. A Study of Roman Policies in Italy and the Greek East (2007), Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic (2013), Teofane di Mitilene. Testimonianze e frammenti (2015), and Marius (2016). He has recently edited a volume of previously unpublished papers by Sir Ronald Syme (Approaching the Roman Revolution. Papers on Republican History, 2017) and a sourcebook on the history of the Late Roman Republic (Late Republican Rome, 88–31 BC, 2017). He works and publishes on the political and intellectual history of the late Republic, on Roman religion, on problems of local and municipal administration in the Roman world, and on aspects of the history of classical scholarship.
Rhiannon Ash
Is Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Merton College, Oxford, and since 2015, Professor of Roman Historiography, Oxford University. She publishes widely in the area of Latin prose narratives, but she has special research interests in Tacitus, who was the subject of her first monograph, Ordering Anarchy: Armies and Leaders in Tacitus’ Histories (1999). Her interests in how Tacitus’ distinctive Latin contributes to his interpretation of historical events is reflected in her two commentaries in the Cambridge ‘Green and Yellow’ series on Tacitus Histories 2 (2007) and Tacitus Annals 15 (2018). She has also co-authored a general handbook with Alison Sharrock, Fifty Key Classical Authors (2002) and a book for children, Mystery History of the Roman Colosseum (1997). Her other research interests include ancient epistles, Greek and Roman biography, battle narratives, paradoxography, Cicero, Sallust, Livy, Pliny the Elder, and Pliny the Younger. She has previously been co-editor of Classical Quarterly and now co-edits (together with John Marincola and Tim Rood) Histos, the electronic journal of Ancient Historiography.
David Wardle
Is Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Cape Town. He is the author of four monographs, most recently Suetonius: Life of Augustus (2014), and of numerous articles and chapters. His major interests lie in the field of Roman biography and historiography. He is currently editing a volume with Jeffrey Murray, Reading by Example: Valerius Maximus and the Historiography of Exempla and working on a commentary on Suetonius’ Life of Divus Julius.
Bram L.H. ten Berge
Assistant Professor, Hope College, has published articles on Herodotus and Cicero, is a contributing member to the new Tacitus Encyclopedia (Wiley-Blackwell, 2021), and is writing a monograph on the relationship between Tacitus’ minora and maiora and the development of the historian’s corpus and political thought.
Kathryn Welch
Is Associate Professor in the Department of classics and Ancient History at the University of Sydney. She is the author of Magnus Pius: Sextus Pompeius and the Transformation of the Roman Republic (2012) and editor of Appian’s Roman History: Empire and Civil War (2015). She is also co-editor, with Anton Powell, of Julius Caesar as Artful Reporter: the War Commentaries as Political Instrument (1998) and Sextus Pompeius (2002); with T.W. Hillard, of Roman Crossings: Theory and Practice in the Roman Republic (2005); with Kit Morrell & Josiah Osgood, of The Alternative Augustan Age (2019). Her main research interests include the transformation of politics and society at Rome in the first century BCE and the ways in which this upheaval was described in ancient narratives.
Jesper Majbom Madsen
Associate Professor and Director of Teaching, University of Southern Denmark, is co-editor of Brill’s Historiography of Rome and its Empire Series. He is the author of Eager to be Roman: Greek Response to Roman Rule in Pontus and Bithynia (2009) and is the co-editor of Roman Rule in Greek and Latin Writing: Double Vision (2014) and Cassius Dio: Greek Intellectual and Roman Politician (2016). He has published a number of articles on emperor worship, lately “Cassius Dio and the Cult of Iulius and Roma at Ephesus and Nicaea (51.20.6–8)” (Classical Quarterly 66.1 [2016]). His is currently finalising a monograph examining the Pompeian city states in Pontos.
The editors and all other contributors to this volume are much obliged to Dr Christopher Dart for his excellent work in creating the index locorum.