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Dr Paul Roche

Lecturer
Department of Classics and Ancient History
School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry (SOPHI)
Quadrangle Building A14
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia
office: J6.03 Main Quadrangle
phone: 9351 2564
fax: 9351 3918


Fields of Expertise

  • Latin literature, especially epic
  • Ideology and political opposition in the late republic and early imperial period
  • Roman political oratory esp. Cicero and Pliny the Younger

Education

  • BA hons Anc. Hist., hons Latin
  • MA Anc. Hist. (Queensland)
  • PhD Classics (Otago)

Select Publications

Books

  • Lucan, De Bello Ciuili 1: A Commentary (Oxford University Press, 2009)
  • (co-ed.) Writing Politics in Imperial Rome (Leiden: Brill 2009).

Articles

  • '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.
  • 'Righting the Reader: Conflagration and Civil War in Lucan's De Bello Ciuili' Scholia 14 (2005) 52-71.
  • 'Selling Trajan’s Saeculum: Destiny, Abundance, Assurance’ Athenaeum 94 (2006) 199-229.
  • ‘Lucan’s Shooting Stars: per vacuum noctis tempus’ Mnemosyne 61 (2008) 140-1.
  • ‘The Public Imagery of the Emperor Otho’, Historia 30 (2008) 108-23.
  • 'The Ivy in the Conquering Bay: Quintilian on Domitian and Domitianic Policy', in W. J. Dominik, J. Garthwaite, P. A. Roche (eds) Writing Politics in Imperial Rome (Leiden: Brill 2009) 367-385.
  • [with W. J. Dominik, J. Garthwaite] 'The Context: Writing Politics and Ideology', in W. J. Dominik, J. Garthwaite, P. A. Roche (eds) Writing Politics in Imperial Rome (Leiden: Brill 2009) 1-21.
  • 'Lucan', 'Lucullus', and 'Marius' in M. Gagarin (ed.) The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome (Oxford University Press, 2010).
  • ‘Pliny’s Praise’ in Roche (ed.) Pliny’s Praise: the Panegyricus in the Roman World. (forthcoming)
  • ‘The Panegyricus and the Monuments of Rome’, Roche (ed.) Pliny’s Praise: the Panegyricus in the Roman World. (forthcoming)

Contracted and forthcoming

  • ‘Self-representation and Performativity in Imperial Satire’ in S. Braund and J. Osgood (eds) A Companion to Persius and Juvenal (Wiley-Blackwell)

Current projects

  • (ed.) Pliny’s Praise: the Panegyricus in the Roman World