Professor of Classical Studies
Education:
- AM (honorary), Amherst College, 2004
- PhD, Classics, Stanford University, 1990
- Master of Arts, Classics, Boston College, 1984
- Bachelor of Arts, History, Stanford University, 1979
Research and teaching interests:
- Latin literature
- Historiography
Selected publications:
- Tacitus, Annals (2012)
- Caesar's Civil War (2006), with William Batstone
- Tacitus, Histories, Book I (2003)
- The Mask of the Parasite: A Pathology of Roman Patronage (1997)
Work in progress:
- C. Iuli Caesaris Commentariorum libri III de bello civili
- Studies on the Text of Caesar's Bellum Civile (OUP, forthcoming)
Recent courses:
- Undergraduate
- Thucydides and Euripides
- Caesar and Lucan, Horace's Satires
- Writing History
- Age of Caesar
- Graduate
- Tacitus
- Caesar
- Prose Composition, Text and Context: History of Latin Literature
- Livy and Polybius (with J. McInerney)
- Roman Letters (with C. Grey)
- Suetonius and the Historia Augusta (with C. Grey)
