Prof Roger Rees

Head of the School of Classics

Professor

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 2617

Email

rdr1@st-andrews.ac.uk

Office

S9

Location

Swallowgate

 

Research areas

The majority of my research focuses on the Latin Literature and Roman history, from the Late Republic (i.e. from Cicero) through to Late Antiquity (i.e. to the mid fifth century). This is, of course, a huge field, and my own particular interests are in panegyrical discourse (i.e. praise) throughout that period. A specific area of interest of mine is the XII Panegyrici Latin collection.

Occasional diversions have included writing a source/evaluation book on the Tetrarchic period and editing a collection of articles on the reception and representation of classical material in the poetry of Ted Hughes.

PhD supervision

• Marco Gay
• Xiyuan Meng
• Helen Wyeth

Selected publications

• From East to West in late antiquity: studies in honor of Jan Willem Drijvers

  Rees, R. (ed.), Lenski, N. (ed.) & van Nijf, O. (ed.), 2024, Santo Spirito, Bari: Edipuglia.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Introduction

  Rees, R., Lenski, N. & van Nijf, O., 2024, From East to West in late antiquity: studies in honor of Jan Willem Drijvers. Rees, R., Lenski, N. & van Nijf, O. (eds.). Santo Spirito, Bari: Edipuglia, p. 7-11 5 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• The love songs of Latin panegyric

  Rees, R., 2024, From East to West in late antiquity: studies in honor of Jan Willem Drijvers. Rees, R., Lenski, N. & van Nijf, O. (eds.). Santo Spirito, Bari: Edipuglia, p. 269-280 12 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• review of Massimo Lolli, Turpidinum notae. La caratterizzazione dell’usurpatore nei Panegyrici Latini tardoantichi (Schweizerische Beiträge zur Altertumswissenschaft 57, Schwabe 2023)

  Rees, R., 20 Feb 2024, In: Sehepunkte.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review

• A commentary on Panegyrici Latini II(12): an oration delivered by Pacatus Drepanius before the emperor Theodosius I in the senate at Rome AD 389

  Rees, R., 1 Nov 2023, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 525 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• ‘To bury Caesar’: the poetics and polemics of funerary oratory in Cassius Dio

  Rees, R., 9 Mar 2023, Brill’s companion to Cassius Dio. Madsen, J. M. & Scott, A. G. (eds.). Leiden: Brill, p. 406-426 21 p. (Brill's companions to classical studies).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Anna-Lena Körfer: Kaiser Konstantin als Leser

  Rees, R., Jul 2020, In: Sehepunkte.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review

• [Not] Making faces. Prosopopeia in late antique panegyric

  Rees, R. D., Feb 2020, Imperial Panegyric from Diocletian to Honorius. Ross, A. & Omissi, A. (eds.). Liverpool University Press, p. 41-65 24 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• 26 entries for the Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity

  Rees, R., 22 Mar 2018, Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity. Oxford: Oxford University Press

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Panegyric

  Rees, R. D., 2018, A Companion to Late Antique Literature. McGill, S. & Watts, E. (eds.). Wiley, p. 209-220 11 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

 

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