Dr Paul Roche

Lecturer
Department of Classics & 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

• Public imagery and political dissent in the late republic and early principate
• Latin epic
• Roman political oratory

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

Books

• Dominik, W. J., Garthwaite, J., and Roche, P. A. (eds) Writing Politics in Imperial Rome (Leiden: Brill 2008).
• Lucan, De Bello Ciuili 1: A Commentary (Under review)

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.
• '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 2008).
  [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 2008).
• 'Lucan', 'Lucullus', and 'Marius' in M. Gagarin (ed.) The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome (OUP 2008).
  'The Public Imagery of the Emperor Otho', Historia (2008) in press.

• Rhetoric, Civil War, and Redemption in Cicero’s Caesarian Orations
• (ed.) Defining Praise: Pliny’s Panegyricus in Context (due early 2009)