Roman History in Roman Poetry

Professor of Classical Languages at Florida State University, and author of books and articles on a wide range of Greek and Latin poetry and other fields. Associate Professor of Ancient History at Florida State University, specialising in the history and culture of the Late Republic and Early Empire.

T.P. Wiseman: Before Naevius: Poetry and History in Early Rome
Donncha O’Rourke (University of Edinburgh): Lucretius redacts Thucydides: the Athenian
Plague in De Rerum Natura 6.1138–1286
Alex Hardie (University of Edinburgh): Pollio and Apollo in the Eclogues
Alex Hardie (University of Edinburgh): Laomedon in the Pre-History of Rome (Vergil, Georgics 1.463–514)
Jason Nethercut (University of South Florida): Pyrrhus in Virgil, Lucretius and Ennius
W.J. Tatum (Victoria University of Wellington): Virgil, Caesar, Furius, and Gallic War
S.J. Harrison (Corpus Christi College, Oxford): Lyric, Tragedy and History in Horace Odes 2.1
Francis Cairns (Florida State University): Propertius 1.21 and 1.22: Unity, Gallan influence,
Text, Genres, and the Shape of Book 1
Trevor Luke (Florida State University): Caligula cites Vergil
Giulio Celotto (University of Virginia): Lucan’s Erictho and Tacitus’ Locusta: from History
to Epic, from Epic to Historiography
T. Stover (Florida State University): Chaos and Cosmos in Silius Punica 6: Regulus at the Bagrada River
Molly Pasco-Pranger (The University of Mississippi): Sulpicia’s History and the sapientia pacis: defending Philosophers in a Time of Peace