Dr Peter Brennan

Department of Classics & Ancient History
School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry (SOPHI)
Quadrangle Building A14
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia
office: H6.06
phone: 9351 2473
fax: 9351 3918

• Notitia Dignitatum
• The last of the Romans – identity in the late Roman world
• Soldiers in the late Roman physical and mental landscape
• ‘Transnationalism’ in the Roman world

• Catalogue and Exhibition
  Peter Brennan, Michael Turner and Nicholas L. Wright, Faces of Power: Imperial Portraiture on Roman Coins (Nicholson Museum, University of Sydney, 2007)
• Other Publications
  Edition/translation of The Notitia Dignitatum (to be published in the series Translated Texts for Historians by Liverpool University Press)
• ‘Zosimos 2.34.1 and ‘the Constantinian reform’; using Johannes Lydos to expose an insidious fabrication’ forthcoming in A. Lewin, ed., Proceedings of International Congress ‘L’esercito romano tardo antico nel vicino oriente; da Diocleziano alla conquista araba’ held in Potenza in May 2005, to be published 2007
• ‘Barbarian impact on the Late Roman Army’, Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 114.2, 2001, 261-6
• (with Jon Barlow) ‘Tribuni Scholarum Palatinarum c. A.D. 353-364: Ammianus Marcellinus and the Notitia Dignitatum’ Classical Quarterly, 51, 2001, 237-254
• ‘A User’s Guide to the otitia Dignitatum: the Case of the dux Armeniae’, Antichthon 32, 1998, 34-49
• 'The Last of the Romans: Roman identity and the Roman army in the late Roman Near East' in G. Clarke, ed, Identities in the Near East in Antiquity in Mediterranean Archaeology, 11, 1998, 191-203
• 'Divide and fall: the separation of legionary cavalry and the fragmentation of the Roman Empire' in Hillard, T.W., Kearsley, R.A., Nixon, C.V.E., Nobbs, A.M. (eds), Ancient History in a Modern University, William Eerdmans, Michigan, Cambridge UK, 1998, 238-244
• ‘The Notitia Dignitatum’ in les littératures techniques dans l’antiquité romaine. Entretiens Fondation Hardt 42 (Geneva, 1996), 147-178