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) 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" Michael Klaassen,
"Cassiodorus' Chronica" Marian Makins,
"Reading and Writing Ancient Battlefields" David Urban,
"The Rhetoric of Masculinity and the Public Formation of Roman Identity" | |
(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 | ||

