Notes on Contributors
John Atkinson
is Emeritus Professor of Classics at the University of Cape Town. He has published several commentaries on the historian Curtius Rufus, most recently in the Clarendon Ancient History series, Curtius Rufus, Histories of Alexander the Great, Book 10 (Oxford, 2009), with a translation by J.C. Yardley.
George Baroud
is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Writing, Literature and Publishing at Emerson College. His research focuses on Classical rhetoric and historiography (especially during the early imperial period); the reception of classical literature and culture in the Arabic/Islamic worlds; and the philosophy of history. His monograph project, tentatively titled Tacitus’ Annals and the Aesthetics of History, is in preparation; forthcoming publications touch on cultural memory in Tacitus’ Agricola; the relationship between astrology, zoology, and historiography in Tacitus’ Annals; and reading practices of historical literature in the early Roman empire.
Emma Brobeck
received her Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle. Her research examines how visual and literary representations of arts and crafts reflect cultural and social identity under the Roman Empire.
Diederik Burgersdijk
is Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at University College Utrecht, The Netherlands, and Chairman of the BABESCH foundation. He is long-standing Research Fellow at the Radboud Institute for Culture & History (Nijmegen) and at the Allard Pierson Institute of the University of Amsterdam. His research focuses on the literature, history and philosophy of the later Roman empire. His most recent co-edited volume, in cooperation with Alan J. Ross, is Imagining Emperors in the Later Roman Empire (Leiden: Brill 2018). Burgersdijk is part of the editorial team of the Brill-series Cultural Interactions in the Mediterranean, and of the Bologna-based journal Rivista Storica dell’Antichità.
Kyle Conrau-Lewis
is a recent PhD graduate from Yale University in the department of classics where he is also a postdoctoral lecturer in the program for premodern studies, ARCHAIA. His dissertation was on ancient historiography, particularly Valerius Maximus, Frontinus and Aelian, and the history of the book.
Alain M. Gowing
is Professor of Classics and Adjunct Professor of History at the University of Washington in Seattle. His chief interests lie in the areas of Roman historiography, literature, and the role of memory in Roman culture, especially of the imperial period. His most recent book is Empire and Memory: the Representation of the Roman Republic in Imperial Culture (Cambridge 2005), and he is currently working on a book-length study of the role of Rome and urban space in Sallust, Livy, and Tacitus.
Rebecca Langlands
is Professor of Classics at the University of Exeter. Her books include Sexual Morality in Ancient Rome (2006), Sex, Knowledge, and Receptions of the Past (edited with Kate Fisher, 2015), Exemplary Ethics in Ancient Rome (2018) and Literature and Culture in the Roman Empire, 96–235. Cross-Cultural Interactions (edited with Alice König and James Uden, 2020). She is also founder and director of the award-winning Sex & History project, which develops innovative sex education resources based on historical materials.
Sarah Lawrence
is the Charles Tesoriero Senior Lecturer in Latin at the University of New England, Australia. She teaches extensively in Latin and Roman History both in person and online. Sarah has published a number of journal articles and book chapters on Valerius Maximus, and also has research interests in Seneca the Elder, Nepos, wider ideas of narrativity and exemplarity, and inclusive pedagogy.
Simon Lentzsch
studied at the University of Cologne, where he completed his doctorate in ancient history in 2016. In 2019 he published his dissertation under the title Roma Victa. Von Roms Umgang mit Niederlagen. From 2013 to 2019, he worked as a research assistant at the University of Cologne and from 2019–2021 he was employed in the Department of Ancient History at the Ruhr University Bochum. Since April 2021, he has been working as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Université de Fribourg in the research project “Im Spiegel der Republik. Valerius Maximus’ Facta et dicta memorabilia” funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), where he is working on a historical commentary of the Facta et dicta memorabilia. In addition to the political and historical culture of the Roman Republic and early empire, he is also interested is the history of Massalia from c. 600–49 BC.
Jeffrey Murray
is Lecturer in Classics in the School of Languages and Literatures at the University of Cape Town. He has published several articles, book chapters, and reviews and is currently preparing for publication a historical and historiographical commentary of Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia, Book 9.
Roman Roth
teaches Classics at the University of Cape Town. He has been a Research Fellow of Peterhouse (Cambridge) and a Fellow of the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation. His research focuses on the history and material culture of Italy during the Republican period; publications include a monograph Styling Romanisation (Cambridge, 2007), numerous journal articles and book chapters, as well as the edited volumes, Roman by Integration (with J. Keller, Portsmouth, 2007) and Empire, Hegemony or Anarchy (with S. Karataş and K.-J. Hölkeskamp, Stuttgart, 2019).
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 (Oxford, 2014), and numerous articles and chapters. His major interests lie in the field of Roman biography and historiography. He is currently working on a commentary on Suetonius’ Life of Divus Julius for the Clarendon Ancient History Series and a study of Scipio Africanus Maior in Valerius Maximus.