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Ancient historiography

Faculty:

Damon, Grey, Ker, McInerney, Murnaghan

Seminars:

Hellenistic and Imperial Greek Historiography (McInerney) Spring 2010

Roman Letters (Damon and Grey) Fall 2009

The Second Sophistic (McInerney) Spring 2009

Tacitus (Damon) Spring 2008

Caesar, Gallic Wars (Damon) Fall 2008

The Roman Exemplary Tradition (Ker) Fall 2005

The Second Sophistic (McInerney) Spring 2005

Herodotus (Murnaghan) Fall 2002, Spring 2009

Publications:

C. Damon, Tacitus, Histories book 1 (2002)
(with W. Batstone) Caesar's Civil War (2006)

C. Grey, "Civil War? What Civil War? Usurpers in the Historia Augusta," in Citizens of Discord: Rome and its Civil Wars, ed. C. Damon, B. Breed, and A. Rossi (in progress)

J. McInerney, "'Do You See What I See?' Plutarch and Pausanias at Delphi," in The Statesman in Plutarch's Works, ed. L. de Blois (2004) 43-55

S. Murnaghan, "The Superfluous Bag: Rhetoric and Display in the Histories of Herodotus," in The Orator in Theory and Practice in Greece and Rome: Essays in honor of George A. Kennedy, ed. Cecil W. Wooten (2001) 55-72

Dissertations:

(in progress)

Roshan Abraham, "Sophos and Sophia: Philostratus' Defense of Apollonius of Tyana"
Committee: Peter Struck, Cam Grey, James Ker, Jeremy McInerney

Michael Klaassen, "Cassiodorus' Chronica"
Committee: Richard Burgess (Univeristy of Ottawa), Jeremy McInerney, Cam Grey

Marian Makins, "Reading and Writing Ancient Battlefields"
Committee: Sheila Murnaghan, Cynthia Damon, Emily Wilson

David Urban, "The Rhetoric of Masculinity and the Public Formation of Roman Identity"
Committee: Joseph Farrell, Cynthia Damon, James Ker, Sheila Murnaghan

(past)

William Josiah Edwards Davis, "Latin texts and Latin culture at Praeneste: 700 BC - 14 AD," 2007

Aislinn Aja Melchior, "Compositions with blood: violence in late Republican prose," 2004

Alex Claire Purves, "Telling space: topography, time, and narrative from Homer to Xenophon," 2002

Alexa Jervis , "Gallia scripta: images of Gauls and Romans in Caesar's Bellum Gallicum," 2001

Samuel Alexander Hughes, "Salamis on the Tiber: readings of the Mars Ultor Temple's dedicatory games," 1997

Karl Maurer , "Evidence of interpolation in the text of Thucydides," 1993

Vanessa Barrett Gorman, "A history of Miletos from 500 to 432 BC," 1993