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T. Corey Brennan Professor, Department of Classics Academic Building 6188, 15 Seminary Place New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8525 USA Tel: 848-932-3823, fax: 848-932-9246 Email Address: [email protected] Web: http://classics.rutgers.edu/people/79-people-t-corey-brennan EDUCATION Ph.D., 1990. Dissertation: The praetorship in the Roman Republic down to 81 B.C. Director: Ernst Badian M.A. Harvard University 1985 B.A. Hon. Oxford University 1983 (M.A. 1988) B.A. University of Pennsylvania 1981 (summa cum laude; Phi Beta Kappa) Additional Study American Academy in Rome 1987/8 [Rome Prize Fellow in Classical Studies] University of Edinburgh 1979/80 [exchange student from University of Pennsylvania] EMPLOYMENT 2000-ongoing: Rutgers University, Department of Classics, Professor (2018-) and Associate Professor (2000-2018) 2009-2012: American Academy in Rome, School of Classical Studies, Andrew W. Mellon Professor-in-Charge [unpaid leave of absence from Rutgers] 1990-2000: Bryn Mawr College, Departments of Greek and Latin, Associate Professor (1997-2000), Assistant Professor (1991-1997), and Lecturer (1990-1991) FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS (SELECT) 2020: Roehampton University: Honorary Research Fellow (to be held 12-20 March 2020). London, England. 2020: American Academy in Rome: Lucy Shoe Meritt Residency in Classical Studies and Archaeology (held 14 Oct-25 Nov 2019). Rome, Italy. 2017-2018, 2013-2015: Loeb Classical Library Foundation grants for digitizing “The Ernst Badian Collection of Roman Republican Coins at Harvard University” 2014: Rutgers University, School of Arts and Sciences award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education (one of three). 1998: Institute for Advanced Study, Membership in School for Historical Studies, Spring Term 1998. Princeton, NJ.

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1995: National Endowment for the Humanities: Fellowship for University Teachers 1994/5. 1990: Harvard University: Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities 1989/90. 1988: American Academy in Rome: Rome Prize in Classics 1987/8. Rome, Italy. PUBLICATIONS Books (authored) Sabina Augusta. An imperial journey. New York and Oxford: , 2018. [328 pp.] Reviews: U. Lambrecht H-Soz-Kult 29547 (electronic only); C. Davenport Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2019.01.04 (electronic only); M. Icks Classical Philology 114 (2019) 541-544; B. Washington Classical Review 69 (2019) 533-555. The praetorship in the Roman Republic. 2 vols. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. [xvii + 972 pp.] Prize: Das Historische Buch 2001, Kategorie Alte Geschichte. Juried competition sponsored by Humboldt University, Berlin. Reviews: G. Rowe Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2001.08.21 (electronic only); Joint Association of Classical Teachers 30 (fall 2001) 13; B. Levick Times Literary Supplement 5140 (5 October 2001) 31; P. Cagniart History: Review of New Books 30 (fall 2002) 36-37; A. Eckstein American Historical Review 108.2 (April 2003) 559-561; M. Peachin Classical World 96.2 (2003) 224-226; C.F. Konrad Classical Journal 98.3 (2003) 341-347; P. Nadig, Gymnasium 110 (2003) 508-510; U. Walter Historische Zeitschrift 276.2 (2003) 427-428; D.A. Phillips, New England Classical Journal 30.4 (2003) 272-274; F. Canali De Rossi Studi Romani 51 (2003) 167-168; N. Rosenstein Journal of Roman Studies 94 (2004) 234-235. Books (co-edited) East and west: papers in ancient history presented to Glen W. Bowersock. Cambridge, MA: Loeb Classical Monographs Series/Harvard University Press, 2009. [ix + 208 pp.] (edited with Flower, Harriet I.) Autobiography: ‘A scholar’s life’ by T.R.S. Broughton (1900-1993). Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press [= American Journal of Ancient History n.s. 5 (2006) [2008]]. [viii + 310 pp.] (edited with Broughton, T.A.; Fowler, R.F.; Scott, A.G.; Shea, K.J.) Chapters in books “Hadrianopoleis: the fame of Hadrian as a founder of cities.” In Paradigm and progeny: Roman imperial architecture and its legacy, edited by D. Favro, J. Pinto and F. Yegül, 115-29. Portsmouth, RI: Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series, 2015.

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“Toward a comparative understanding of the executive decision-making process in China and Rome." In State power in ancient China and Rome, edited by W. Scheidel, 39-55. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. "Power and process under the Republican 'constitution'." In The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Republic (2nd edition), edited by H. I. Flower, 19-53. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. [Revision of first edition, pp. 19-53, 2004.] “Ernst Badian’s methodological maxims." In The legacy of Ernst Badian, edited by C. Thomas, 9-26. Claremont, CA: Regina Press, 2013. “Perceptions of women’s power in the late Republic: Terentia, Fulvia, and the generation of 63 BCE.” In A Companion to Women in the Ancient World, edited by S. Dillon and S. L. James, 354-366. Malden, MA, Oxford and Chichester: Wiley- Blackwell, 2012. “Roman legal ideology in the military sphere: insights on ‘aequitas’ from the case of the Caudine Forks (321 BC).” In Leges publicae. La legge nell'esperienza giuridica romana, edited by J.-L. Ferrary, 475-88. Pavia: IUSS Press, 2012. “L’American Academy in Rome e la Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Commission nell'era della seconda guerra mondiale.” In Guerra, monumenti, ricostruzione. Architetture e centri storici italiani nel secondo conflitto mondiale, edited by L. De Stefani and C. Coccoli, 191-99. Venice: Marsilio Editori, 2011. "The Eternal City and the City of Eternal Peace." In China's early empires: a re- appraisal, edited by M. Loewe and M. Nylan, 186-200. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2010. “The 1960 Rome Olympics: spaces and spectacle.” In Rethinking matters Olympic: investigations into the socio-cultural study of the modern Olympic movement, edited by R.K. Barney, J. Forsyth & M.K Heine, 17-29. London, ON: International Centre for Olympic Studies, 2010. Prize: International Society of Olympic Historians, “Best Non-Journal of Olympic History Article" for 2010. “Embassies gone wrong: Roman diplomacy in the Constantinian Excerpta de Legationibus.” In Diplomats and diplomacy in the Roman world, edited by C. Eilers, 171-91. Leiden: Brill, 2009. "Tertullian's De Pallio and Roman dress in North Africa." In Roman dress and the fabrics of Roman culture, edited by J. Edmondson and A. Keith, 258-70. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008.

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“Triumphus in Monte Albano.” In Transitions to Empire in the Greco-Roman World, 360-146 B.C., edited by E. Harris and R. Wallace, 315-37. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996. Journal articles “The discovery (and rediscovery) of a temple dedication to Hercules by P. Aelius Hieron, freedman of Hadrian (AE 1907, 125).” Hyperboreus 22.2 (2016) 75-89. http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7282/T32J6F8G “Ehren für Cn. Domitius Calvinus in Nysa.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 169 (2009): 157–61. http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3S184XC (with Blümel, Wolfgang; Habicht, Christian). "Principes and plebs: Nerva's reign as turning-point?" American Journal of Ancient History 15.1 (1990) [2000]: 40-66. http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3697606 “The poets Julia Balbilla and Damo at the Colossus of Memnon.” Classical World 91 (1998): 215-234. http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3XS5XSS “Notes on praetors in Spain in the second century B.C.” Emerita 63 (1995): 47-76. http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3GQ716F “M.' Curius Dentatus and the praetor's right to triumph.” Historia 43 (1994): 423- 39. http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3P84F90 “The commanders in the First Sicilian Slave War.” Rivista di Filologia e Istruzione Classica 121 (1993): 153-84. http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3639S55 “Sulla's career in the nineties: some reconsiderations.” Chiron 22 (1992): 103-58. http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3T1561Q “C. Aurelius Cotta, praetor iterum (CIL I2 610).” Athenaeum 67 (1989): 467-87. “An Ethnic Joke in Homer?” Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 91 (1987): 1-3. Encyclopedia Articles “Tribunicia potestas.” The Oxford Classical Dictionary (digital edition), edited by S. Goldberg. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.013.8196 “Badian, Ernst (1925-2011)”; “Broughton, T.R.S. (1900-1993)”; "Frank, Tenney (1876-1939)”; "Taylor, Lily Ross (1886-1969)." The encyclopedia of ancient history, edited by R.S. Bagnall, K. Brodersen, C. B. Champion, A. Erskine, and S. R. Huebner. Malden, MA; Oxford; Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah30147;

4 Brennan CV 15 January 2020 https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah30149; https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah30150; https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah30154 “Decii”; “Money”; “Quirites”; and (with Fratantuono, Lee) “Coins and medallions”. In The Virgil Encyclopedia, edited by R. F. Thomas and J. M. Ziolkowski, 345. Malden, MA; Oxford; Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014. "American Academy in Rome." Encyclopedia of global archaeology, edited by C. Smith, 178-80. New York: Springer-Verlag, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/DOI:10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2 "Cursus honorum"; “Egnatius, Gnaeus”; "Villius (RE 5) (Annalis), Lucius”; (with Lintott, A.) "Praetor." The Oxford Classical Dictionary (4th edition), edited by S. Hornblower, A. Spawforth, E. Eidinow. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. [Originally appeared in print 3rd edition (1996) and 3rd revised edition (2005)]. “Catulus, Quintus Lutatius, Liber de Consulatu.” The encyclopedia of ancient history, edited by R.S. Bagnall, K. Brodersen, C. B. Champion, A. Erskine, and S. R. Huebner. Malden, MA; Oxford; Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/DOI:10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah08033 Reviews (last 12 years) “Figure seven.” Review of The hills of Rome, by C. Vout. Times Literary Supplement 5748 (31 May 2013) 15. “Tree of ius.” Review of The invention of law in the West, by A. Schiavone. Times Literary Supplement 5725/5726 (21 and 28 December 2012) 32. “Popes as preservationists.” Review of The ruin of the eternal city: antiquity and preservation in Renaissance Rome, by D. E. Karmon. Times Literary Supplement 5697 (8 June 2012) 12. “Still not buried.” Review of Caesar. A life in western culture, by M. Wyke. Times Literary Supplement 5474 (29 February 2008) 33. [Aristoteles] Physiognomononica, edited by S. Vogt. Classical World 99.2 (2006) 202-3. [English translation of book reviewed: Aristotle's treatise on the study of physiognomy]. Other publications Database of Classical Scholars. https://dbcs.rutgers.edu. Associate editor since 2018.

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Counterfeit Caesars: The criminal genius of coin forger Carl Wilhelm Becker (1772- 1830). New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers Department of Classics, 2016. Online at goo.gl/B7hSJ2 Early coinage from the Roman Republic, 280-91 BCE. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Libraries, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3WH2N0Z Wisdom from the ancients: enduring business lessons from , Julius Caesar, and the illustrious leaders of Greece and Rome. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Press, 2001. [xii + 241 pp.] [Korean language edition 2002]. (co-authored with Figueira, Thomas J.; Sternberg, Rachel H.). Archivio Digitale Boncompagni Ludovisi. http://villaludovisi.org, 2013-present. Highlights select documents, dating from 1417-1955, from newly rediscovered portion (110,000+ pages, now completely digitized) of the Archivio Boncompagni Ludovisi in Rome, the remainder of which is now held in the Archivio Segreto Vaticano. LECTURES BY INVITATION American Academy in Rome, 11 November 2019 (one of keynotes for 125th anniversary conference). American University of Rome, 21 June 2012. Archaeological Institute of America, Rome chapter (inaugural event), 15 May 2012; Princeton Chapter, 4 December 2002. American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1 March 2011. Binghamton University, 19 April 2017. Brooklyn College, 16 November 2017 (Fromchuck Lecture) and 18 November 2002 (Fromchuck Lecture). Bryn Mawr College, 22 November 2019 (via video), 14 November 2008. California State University, Fresno, 10-11 November 2000. Camden County (NJ) College, 9 April 2014. Case Western Reserve University, 30 September 2016. Christopher Newport University, 12 January 2008. College of Wooster, 8 April 2001. Columbia University, 15 April 1999. Cooper Union, 5 December 2013. Cornell University, 21 February 2003 and 5 October 1995. CUNY Graduate Center, 15 March 1996. Finnish Institute in Rome, 22 October 2019 (keynote for “Model Rome” conference).

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Fordham University, 17 October 2007. Franklin & Marshall College, 9 April 1996. Georgetown University, 29 March 2017. Harvard University, 2 February 1998. Hollins University, 3 March 1999. Hunter College, 2 May 2008 (Earle Lecture). Istituto Centrale Catalogo Documentazione (Rome), 21 November 2019. Istituto Italiano per la Storia Antica (Rome), 30 March 2012. Istituto Svizzero di Roma, 11 September 2009. Kutztown University, 4 December 2019. Montclair State University, 29 April 2008. New York University, 3 April 2014, 3 November 2008, 8 April 1992. Oxford University, Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, 3 May 2012 (Don Fowler Memorial Lecture). Penn State University, 24 March 1994. Portsmouth Abbey School (Portsmouth RI), 4 February 2013 (Dom Luke Childs Lecture). Princeton University, 19 November 2005, 4 February 2000 and 5 February 1993. Rice University, 17 March 2005. Richard Stockton College, 16 November 2002. Rosemont College, 17 March 1993. Rutgers University, 26 October 1994. Seton Hall University, 23 April 2015. Syracuse University, 29 March 2005 (Moses Finley Memorial Lecture). Temple University, 13 February 2017. Union College, 6 May 1993. University of Alabama, 5 October 2013. University of Kentucky, 11 October 2019 (one of keynotes for Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Classics Section). University of Maryland, 27 Aptil 2018 (conference in honor of J. P. Hallett). University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 5 May 2000 (T.R.S. Broughton Lecture). University of Pennsylvania, Harnwell College House, 7 February 2001. Università degli Studi Roma Tre, 26 February 2010. University of South Carolina, 13 April 2006. University of Western Ontario, 29 October 2010 (Ioannides Memorial Lecture); 15 February 2007. Yale University, 3 March 2006 and 12 February 1999.

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TELEVISION: ON-AIR CONSULTING Roman Empire (USA, Netflix, miniseries, three seasons). On-air interviews in New York, NY; produced by Stephen David Entertainment. —Caligula: The Mad Emperor (premiered 5 April 2019, 4 X 48 mins.) —Julius Caesar: Master of Rome (premiered 27 July 2018, 5 X 48 mins.) —Reign of Blood (premiered 11 November 2016, 6 X 48 mins.) The Ancient Splendors of Rome 3D: The Colosseum (South Korea, Educational Broadcasting System, premiere summer 2013). On-air interview in New Brunswick, NJ; produced by EBS (1 X 60 mins.) Caligula: 1400 Days of Terror (US, History Channel, premiere October 2012). On- air, on-site interview in Rome (Italy); produced by NorthSouth Productions (1 X 60 mins.). Meet the Romans with Mary Beard (UK, BBC2, original run 17 April-1 May 2012). On-air, on-site interviews in Rome and Ostia (Italy); produced by Lion Television (3X60 mins.). Appeared in Episode 2: “Streetlife” and Episode 3: “Behind Closed Doors”. Divine Women (UK, BBC2, original run 11-25 April 2012). On-air, on-site interviews in Rome (Italy); produced by BBC2 with presenter Bettany Hughes (3X60 mins.). Appeared in Episode 1: “When God was Girl” and Episode 2: “The Handmaids of God”. Engineering the Impossible: The Colosseum (US, National Geographic Channel, premiere 23 August 2007). On-air interview in New York, NY; produced by Darlow Smithson (1 X 60 mins.). Roman Vice (US, History Channel, premiere 6 September 2005). On-air interview in New York, NY; produced by Principal TV (1 X 120 mins.). First Olympian (UK, BBC2, premiere 23 July 2004, and US, Discovery Channel, premiere 12 August 2004.) On-air interview in Berkeley CA; produced by BBC/Discovery (1 X 60 mins.). Chariot Race (UK, Channel 4 International, premiere 23 Sep. 2002) and Chariot Race 2002 (US, The Learning Channel, premiere 1 Dec. 2002). On-air, on-site interviews in Antequera (Spain); produced by Wall to Wall (1 X 90 mins.).

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PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (SELECT) Rutgers Department of Classics Acting Chair, July 2008-June 2009; Chair, July 2002-June 2008 (two terms); Acting Chair, January-June 2002. Acting Graduate Director, October 2006-June 2008 and January 2005-June 2005; Graduate Director, January 2001-August 2002. Acting Undergraduate Director, July 2007-June 2008; November 2000-August 2001. Rutgers Program in Italian Studies Director, July 2006-June 2008; Committee Member, 2003-2009. Rutgers Academic Athletics Oversight Committee Committee Member, 2019-2023. American Academy in Rome Andrew W. Mellon Professor-in-Charge, School of Classical Studies, 2009-2012. Board of Trustees of the AAR (ex officio, as representative of Society of Fellows), 2008- 2010. Society of Fellows of the AAR President, 2008-2010; Vice-President for Classics, 1994-96; Council Member, 1996-2000. Advisory Council to the Committee on the School of Classical Studies of the AAR Chair, Executive Committee, 2019-2021; Member, Executive Committee, 2005-2007; Secretary, 1999-2002. Jury, Rome Prize competition in Ancient Studies, 2013-2014. American Journal of Ancient History Editor 2001-2012; Assistant Editor, 1995-2000. American Philological Association / Society for Classical Studies Nominations Committee, 2014-2017; Program Committee, 2002-2005; Committee on L'Année philologique, 2001-2004. Ancient History Colloquium of the Atlantic States Co-founder of organization in 2002, and co-facilitator of ten semiannual meetings at various colleges and universities in CT, NJ NY, and PA, 2002-2007; Treasurer, 2004-2007.

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Classical Association of the Atlantic States Chair, Jerry Clack Lectureship Committee, 2019-2022. Member, Program Committee, 2013-present. Other organizing activities (select) Ongoing (since 2015): Archivio Digitale Boncompagni Ludovisi. Supervision of digitization project at Rome’s Villa Aurora, supported by Rutgers University Strategic Funds from the Chancellor’s Office in New Brunswick. See above under ‘Other Publications’. 2017: Digital project, Broadsides and pamphlets of the Roman Republic of 1849- 1849. Secured funding and collaborated with Harvard Law School Library to place collection online for scholarly research. https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories/5/resources/4461 2016: Exhibition, Counterfeit Caesars: The criminal genius of coin forger Carl Wilhelm Becker (1772-1830). Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, 10 October 2016-6 February 2017. For catalog, see above under ‘Other Publications’. 2014: Committee on Institutional Cooperation graduate conference, Ancient Adornment. Department of Classics, Rutgers University, 23 October 2014. New Brunswick, NJ. With David Wright and Scott Barnard. 2014: North American tour of Princess Elettra Marconi Giovannelli (daughter of 1909 Nobel laureate Guglielmo Marconi). Events in New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Ontario Canada, culminating in 28 June conference NJ: State of Invention at Rutgers University, 14-30 June 2014. With (numerous) local committees. 2012: Conference Luigi Moretti al Foro Mussolini (poi Italico). American Academy in Rome, 14 April 2012. Rome (Italy). With M. G. D’Amelio, T. Magnifico, P. Pedinelli. 2011: Exhibition and multi-media experiential spectacle, Galileo: Conversazione, Mostra, Spettacolo. American Academy in Rome, 7-15 April 2011. Rome (Italy). In collaboration with Specola Vaticana. 2010: Conference, exhibition, and didactic site visit, The 1960 Rome Olympic Games. American Academy in Rome, 30 September-2 October 2010. Rome (Italy). 2006: Conference, East and West: a conference in honor of Glen W. Bowersock, Princeton University, 7 April 2006. Princeton, NJ. With Harriet I. Flower.

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2006: Conference panel, Classics book reviewing in the 21st century, American Philological Association annual meeting, Montreal (Quebec, Canada), 7 January 2006. 2005: Exhibition, Early coinage from the Roman Republic, 280-91 BCE, Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries, 28 September-23 December 2005. New Brunswick, NJ. Co-curator with G. Farney and F. Perrone. For catalog, see above under ‘Other Publications’. 2002: Conference, Pity in Athenian life and letters, Rutgers University, 16 March 2002. New Brunswick, NJ. Collaboration with R. Sternberg. [Proceedings published as Pity and Power in Ancient Greece, ed. R. Sternberg, Cambridge University Press/America, 2005.] 2002: Conference, Influences on Peripatetic Rhetoric, Rutgers University, 27-28 September 2002. In collaboration with D. Mirhady. New Brunswick, NJ. [Proceedings published as Influences on Peripatetic Rhetoric: Essays in Honor of William W. Fortenbaugh, ed. D. Mirhady, Brill, 2007.] Direction of completed PhD dissertations Rutgers University: B. Mumper (2017); B. Hicks (2011); R. Fowler, G. Golden, and A. Scott (2008); M. Johnson (2007); D. Nousek (2004). Bryn Mawr College: V. Kozlovskaya (2007, with J. Wright); M. Johnston (2003, with R. T. Scott); G. Farney and P. Lackie (1999); G. Kelly (1999, with R. T. Scott); R. Sternberg (1998, with R. Hamilton).

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