Dr Eleanor Cowan

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: J6.09 Main Quadrangle,
Phone: (02) 9351 2998
Fax: (02) 9351 3918

Fields of interest

• Roman history, especially the Late Republic and Early Principate
• History of ideas and concepts
• Writers of the Augustan and Tiberian periods
• Democracy and the Roman Plebs
• Historiography

Education

BA Hons. (University of Sydney)

LLB (University of Sydney)

PhD (University of Exeter)

Selected Publications

Books
(ed.) Velleius Paterculus. Making History (Classical Press of Wales, forthcoming 2010)

(ed.) Shorter and extended notes on Church and Brodribb’s Tacitus. Annals, Histories, Agricola and Germany. Everyman Press (2009).

Res Publica. (in progress).

Articles and Chapters
‘Velleius and the princeps Romani nominis’ in E. Cowan ed., Velleius Paterculus: Making History. Classical Press of Wales (forthcoming).
‘Tacitus, Tiberius and Augustus’. Classical Antiquity 28.2 (2009) 179-209.

‘Tiberius and Augustus in Tiberian Sources’. Historia 58.4 (2009) 468-85.

‘’Marius’ in Nicolaus of Damascus. Some Implications from Chronology’, Athenaeum 97.1 (2009) 159-69.

‘Libertas in the Philippics’, in T.R. Stevenson and M. Wilson (eds), Cicero’s Philippics: history, rhetoric, ideology. Prudentia 37-38 (Auckland 2008), 140-52.

‘Tacitus, Tiberius and Augustus’, Omnibus 52 (2006) 18-20.

‘Having Hirtius to Dinner: optimates and populares in the Late Republic’, ERAS 3 (2002) ISSN 1445-5218.