Dr Paul Roche
Lecturer, School of Classics, History and Religion
Qualifications
BA Hons, MA, PhD
Contact
| Email: | paul.roche |
| Room: | E11 G34 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 3687 (or +61 2 6773 3687 overseas) |
Research interests
Latin Epic and Pastoral, especially Vergil and his successors
Political History and Literature of the late-republic and early empire
Cicero
Publications
Books & MonographsLucan, De Bello Civili 1. Under review.
Refereed Articles and Book Chapters
'The Public Image of Trajan's Family', Classical Philology 97 (2002) 41-60.
'Mixed Messages: Trajan and the Propaganda of Personal Status', in C. Deroux (ed.) Studies in Roman History and Latin Literature 11 (Brussels 2003) 428-46.
'Lucan's Northern Sea: Text, Context', Mnemosyne 56 (2003) 611-13.
'The Execution of L. Salvius Otho Cocceianus', Classical Quarterly 53 (2003) 319-22.
'Selling Trajan's Saeculum: Destiny, Abundance, Assurance' Athenaeum (forthcoming 2006).
'The Ivy in the Conquering Bay: Quintilian on Domitian and Domitianic Policy', in W. J. Dominik and J. Garthwaite (eds) Writing Politics in Imperial Rome (Leiden: Brill (forthcoming) 2007).
'Righting the Reader: Conflagration and Civil War in Lucan's De Bello Ciuili' Scholia (forthcoming 2007).
'Lucan's Shooting Stars: per uacuum noctis tempus', Mnemosyne (forthcoming)
Book reviews
J. Grainger, The Roman Succession Crisis of AD 96-99 and the Reign of Nerva (London 2002) Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2003.03.33.
O. Hekster, Commodus. An Emperor at the Crossroads (Amsterdam 2002) Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2003.07.11.
G. Manzoni, Pugnae maioris imago. Intertestualit‡ e rovesciamento nella seconda esade dell'Eneide (Milan 2002) Classical Review 54 (2004) 567-8.
R. Sklen·ř, The Taste for Nothingness. A study of Virtus and Related Themes in Lucan's Bellum Civile (Ann Arbor 2003) Classical Review 54 (2004) 400-1.
K. W. Gransden, The Aeneid2 (rev. S. J. Harrison) (Cambridge 2004) Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.05.20.
R. Ancona, Writing Passion. A Catullus Reader. Latin Text, Notes,
Vocabulary. (Wauconda 2004) Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.11.31.
E. Champlin, Nero (Cambridge, MA 2005). Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2006.04.20.