Associate Professor Dexter Hoyos

Department of Classics & Ancient History
School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry (SOPHI)
Quadrangle Building A14
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia
office: McCallum Bldg 808
phone: (02) 9351 2469
fax: (02) 9351 3918

• Romans and Carthaginians in the age of the Punic Wars
• Carthage: culture, history, impact
• Roman historians and documents
• Developing Latin reading and comprehension skills

• Secondary: Harrison College, Barbados 1953-63
• BA: U. of West Indies, Jamaica 1963-66 (Hons. Class I: Latin and Greek)
• MA: McMaster University, Ontario 1966-67 (Latin with Greek)
• DPhil: Oxford University 1967-71 (Ancient History)

• 1990: ‘“Populus Seanoc[…]”, 104 B.C.’, University of New England (Australia) International Seminar on Greek and Latin Epigraphy (12-14 July, 1989): published in 1990 (see below)

Books

• 2006 (co-author) Livy: Hannibal’s War. Books 21 to 30: translated by J.C. Yardley; introduction, notes, chronological table, glossary, bibliography & maps by D. Hoyos. Oxford World’s Classics: Oxford U.P. 784 pp. (of which DH’s approx. 140).
• 2003 Hannibal's Dynasty: Power and Politics in the Mediterranean World, 247–183 B.C. (London: Routledge). 304 pp. Reprinted in paper covers, with 4 maps, 2005.
• 1998 Unplanned Wars: the Origins of the First and Second Punic Wars. Studien zur Alte Geschichte und Literatur, 50. Berlin & New York: W. de Gruyter. 4 maps; 326 pp.

Articles

• 2006 ‘Crossing the Durance with Hannibal and Livy: the route to the pass’, KLIO: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte, vol. 88, pp. 408-65 (with map)
• 2006 ‘Carthage and the Mediterranean world’, Leidschrift: Historisch Tijdshrift (Leiden University) vol. 21no. 3: Cultuurcontact en Acculturatieprocessen in de Oudheid, pp. 37-52
• 2005 ‘Reminiscences of Octavia in Apocolocyntosis’, in W.V. Harris & E. Lo Cascio (edd.), Noctes Campanae: Studi di storia antica ed archeologica dell’Italia preromana e romana in memoria di Martin W. Frederiksen. Napoli: Luciano Editore: pp. 261-70
• 2002 ‘The battle-site of Ilipa’, KLIO: Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte, vol. 84, pp. 101-13 (with map)
• 2001 ‘Polybius and the papyrus: the persuasiveness of P. Rylands III 491’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, vol. 134, pp. 71-79
• 2001 ‘Identifying Hamilcar Barca’s heights of Heircte’, Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte, vol. 50, pp. 490-95 (with map)
• 2001 ‘Generals and annalists: geographic and chronological obscurities in the Scipios’ campaigns in Spain, 218–211 B.C.’, KLIO: Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte, vol. 83, pp. 68-92
• 2000 ‘Towards a chronology of the “Truceless War”, 241–237 B.C.’, Rheinisches Museum für Philologie, vol. 143, pp. 369-80
• 1994 ‘Barcid “proconsuls” and Punic politics, 237–218 B.C.’, Rheinisches Museum für Philologie, vol. 137, pp. 246-74
• 1990 ‘Cato’s “duovicesimo anno” and Punic treaty-breaches in the 230s B.C.’, Ancient History Bulletin [Canada / USA], vol. 4, pp. 31-36
• 1990 ‘ “Populus Seanoc[…]”, 104 B.C.’, Acta of the University of New England (Armidale, Australia) International Seminar on Greek and Latin Epigraphy (12-14 July, 1989), ed. I. Worthington = Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, vol. 83, pp. 89-95
• 1989 (published 1991) ‘A forgotten Roman historian: L. Arruntius and the “true” causes of the First Punic War’, Antichthon [Journal of the Australian Society for Classical Studies], vol. 23, pp. 51-66
• 1988 ‘A new historical puzzle: the Entella documents’, Prudentia [Journal of classical studies, New Zealand], vol. 20, pp. 30-43
• 1985 ‘Treaties true and false: the error of Philinus of Agrigentum’, Classical Quarterly, vol. 35, pp. 92-109
• 1985 ‘The rise of Hiero II: chronology and campaigns 275–264 B.C.’, Antichthon, vol. 19, pp. 32-56 (with map)
• 1984 ‘The Roman-Punic pact of 279 B.C.: its problems and its purpose’, Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte, vol. 33, pp. 402-39
• 1984 ‘Polybius’ Roman oiJ polloiv in 264 B.C.’, Liverpool Classical Monthly, vol. 9, pp. 88-93
• 1983 ‘The legal powers of Augustus: some modern views’, Ancient Society [Macquarie University NSW], vol. 13, pp. 5-57

• Special subjects: e.g. the Julio-Claudians and Tacitus, Hannibal and the historians, the Augustan Age (politics and government), Roman epigraphy
• Latin language (especially at advanced level)
• Roman historians (Sallust, Livy, Tacitus)
• Ancient history (in 2007)

• Head of the Department of Latin: July 1981–December 1990
• Sub-dean, Faculty of Arts: 1978–1981
• Acting head, School of Classics, Archaeology and Ancient History: various periods from 1990 to 2000
• Head of Department of Classics, January-December 2003
• Library Liaison Officer (Latin Dept, then Classics Dept, currently Classics and Ancient History Dept) since about 1980
• Member of (innumerable) Appointments Committees and Promotions Committees since about 1978