Gregory Rowe

1997 D.Phil., Ancient History, The Queen's College, University of Oxford (thesis title: "Omnis spes futura paternae stationis: Public Responses to the Roman Imperial Succession")

1990 B.A. summa cum laude, Greek Language and Literature, University of Michigan.

In 2007 I received the Teaching Excellence Award of the Faculty of Humanities at UVic.

I currently hold a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Standard Research Grant, which allows me to hire graduate research assistants for a project on the jurisdiction of Roman provincial governors; interested students should e-mail me (gdrowe@uvic.ca) and plan on applying to the Masters Program of the Department of Greek and Roman Studies at UVic. Otherwise, I will be happy to supervise theses on any subject of Roman history. At UVic I have supervised MA theses on St Augustine, Hellenistic Bactria, and Roman citizenship.

Office: Clearihue B430

Phone: (250) 721-8521

Email: gdrowe@uvic.ca

Interests:

Roman history, Greek and Latin epigraphy, and Roman public and private law.

Recent and Forthcoming Publications:

Review of R.T. Ridley, The Emperor’s Retrospect. Augustus’ Res Gestae in epigraphy, historiography, and commentary. Studia Hellenistica 39. (Leiden; Dudley, MA: Peeters, 2003), in Journal of Roman Studies 97 (2007): 273-4;

Review of W. Eck, M. Heil, edd., Senatores populi Romani. Realität und mediale Präsentation einer Führungsschicht. Heidelberger Althistorische Beiträge und Epigraphische Studien 40. (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2005) in Classical Review 57, 2 (2007): 482-4;

Review of C. Williamson. The Laws of the Roman People. Public Law in the Expansion and Decline of the Roman Republic (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005), in Journal of Roman Archaeology 20 (2007): 405-8;

“Tiberius” in Lives of the Caesars, edited by A. Barrett, Blackwell 2008;

“Epigraphy” in The Blackwell Companion to the Ancient World, edited by A. Erskine, Blackwell 2008;

“The Elaboration and Diffusion of the Monumentum Ephesinum,” in The Tax Law of Asia: Text, Translation, Commentary, and Essays, edited by B. Levick, Oxford University Press 2008:157-66;

(Ir)rationality in Antiquity. Papers from the Joint Meeting of the Classical Association of the Canadian West and the Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest, edited by L.M. Bowman and G.D. Rowe, Mouseion Series 3, vol. 4 (2007);

Vita Vigilia Est : Papers on the Elder Pliny in Honour of Barbara Levick, edited by E. Bispham, E. Matthews, and G.D. Rowe, Bulletin of the Institute for Classical Studies. Supplement Series 100 (2007).

Current Projects:

Right now, in addition to my monograph on the jurisdiction of Roman governors, I’m working on articles on the Roman senate, the Julio-Claudian emperors, Vespasian, and Titus for The Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome, Oxford University Press; a chapter on 'The Roman State: Laws and Lawmaking' for Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy, edited by C. Bruun and J. Edmondson; and a translation of Claudia Moatti, La Raison de Rome: naissance de l’esprit critique à la fin de la République (Paris, Seuil: 1997), for Cambridge University Press.