Associate Professor Jeffrey Tatum
Department of Classics and Ancient History
School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry (SOPHI)
Quadrangle Building A14
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia
Office: J6.08, Main Quad
Phone: (02) 9351 2074
Fax: (02) 9351 3918
Fields of Expertise
- History of the Roman republic
- Latin literature
- Plutarch
Education
B.A. (Judaic Studies); B.A. (Classics) University of South Florida; M.A. (Latin); Ph.D. (Classics) University of Texas at Austin
Selected Conferences and Invited Papers
"The Plebiscitum Atinium Once More," Australasian Society for Classical Studies, January 2008.
"Still Waters Run Deep: Plutarch, Aem. 14," American Philological Association, January 2008.
"The Ideology of Roman Elections," Penn State University, March 2007.
"Alterum est tamen boni viri, alterum boni petitoris: The Good Man Canvasses (Comm. Pet. 42-45)," American Philological Association, January 2006.
"A Homo Platonicus in Politics: Advice to Cicero in the Commentariolum Petitionis," Trinity College, Dublin, May 2006.
"Invective Identity in Cicero’s Pro Caelio," Praise and Blame in Roman Oratory, St. Andrews University, St. Andrews, UK, November 2006.
Selected Publications
Books
Always I am Caesar. Blackwell Publishing: Oxford, 2008
The Patrician Tribune: Publius Clodius Pulcher. University of North Carolina Press: Chapel Hill, 1999.
Papers
“The Presocratics in Book One of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura,” in M. Gale (ed.), Oxford Readings in Lucretius (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007): 132-45.
“Martial 8.82.” in L’Antiquité Classique 76 (2007): 185-88.
“Alterum est tamen boni viri, alterum boni petitoris: The Good Man Canvasses,” Phoenix 61 (2007): 109-35.
“The Character of Marcus Liciniuis Crassus,” in M.M. Winckler (ed.), Spartacus: Film and History (Oxford, 2007): 128-43.
“Social Commentary and Political Invective,” in M.B. Skinner (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to Catullus (Oxford, 2007): 333-53.
“Friendship, Politics and Literature in Catullus: Poems 1, 65 and 66, 116,” in J. H. Gaisser (ed.), Oxford Readings in Catullus (Oxford, 2007): 369-98.
"The Final Crisis: 69-44," in R. Morstein-Marx and N. Rosenstein (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to the Roman Republic (Oxford, 2006): 190-211.
“Teucer’s Imperium (Horace, Carm. 1.7.27),” PLLS 12 (2005): 13-16.
“Elections in Rome,” Classical Journal 99 (2003/04): 203 – 216.
Papers in Press
“Ultra legem: Law and literature in Horace, Satires 2. 1,” in K. Freudenberg (ed.), Oxford Readings in Horace: Satires and Epistles.
“Roman Democracy?” in R. Ballot (ed.), A Companion to Ancient Political Thought (Blackwell).
Current Projects
- Translation of and commentary on the Commentariolum Petitionis for Oxford University Press.
- Plutarch: The Rise of Rome (new translations, introduction and annotation) for Penguin Press.
