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Dr Paul Roche

Senior Lecturer in Latin
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

  • Roman literature, politics and culture in the first century AD

Education

  • BA hons anc. hist., hons Latin; MA anc. hist. (UQ); 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).
  • (ed.) Pliny’s Praise: the Panegyricus in the Roman World (Cambridge University Press 2011).

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Articles and Chapters

  • ‘Meleager’s grasshopper (12 G–P = AP 7.195) and Tityrus’ bees (Verg. Ecl. 1.53–5)’ Mnemosyne accepted 4/ 2012
  • ‘Lucan’s Bellum Ciuile in the Thebaid’ in W. Dominik and C. Newlands (eds) `Brill’s Companion to Statius (Leiden)
  • ‘Author and authority in the prefaces of Pliny the Elder’s Natural History and Quintilian’s Institutio Oratoria’ in A. Zissos (ed.) A Companion to the Flavian Age of imperial Rome (Wiley-Blackwell)
  • ‘Self-representation and performativity’ in S. Braund and J. Osgood (eds) A Companion to Persius and Juvenal (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012) 190–216.
  • ‘The Panegyricus and the monuments of Rome’ in P. Roche (ed.) Pliny’s Praise: the Panegyricus in the Roman World. (Cambridge University Press, 2011) 45–66
  • ‘Pliny’s thanksgiving: an introduction to the Panegyricus’ in P. Roche (ed.) Pliny’s Praise: the Panegyricus in the Roman World. (Cambridge University Press, 2011) 1–28
  • ‘Lucan’, ‘Lucullus’, and ‘Marius’ in M. Gagarin (ed.) The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome (Oxford University Press, 2009).
  • (with W. J. Dominik and J. Garthwaite) ‘Writing imperial politics: the context’ in W. J. Dominik, J. Garthwaite, P. A. Roche (eds) Writing Politics in Imperial Rome (Leiden: Brill 2009) 1-21.
  • ‘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) 367-85.
  • ‘The public imagery of the emperor Otho’ Historia 30 (2008) 108-23.
  • ‘Lucan’s shooting stars: per vacuum noctis tempus’ Mnemosyne 61 (2008) 140-1.
  • ‘Selling Trajan’s saeculum: destiny, abundance, assurance’ Athenaeum 94 (2006) 199-229.
  • ‘Righting the reader: conflagration and civil war in Lucan’s De Bello Ciuili’ Scholia 14 (2005) 52-71.
  • ‘The execution of L. Salvius Otho Cocceianus’ Classical Quarterly 53 (2003) 319-22.
  • ‘Lucan’s northern sea: text, context’ Mnemosyne 56 (2003) 611-13.
  • ‘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.
  • ‘The public image of Trajan’s family’ Classical Philology 97 (2002) 41-60.
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Current projects

  • Lucan, De Bello Civili VII for the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics series.
  • ‘Lucan’s supernatural’ in L. Fratantuono and C. Stark (eds) A Companion to Latin Epic, 14-96 C.E (Wiley-Blackwell)
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