Dr James Richardson BA (Auckland) MA (Auckland) PhD (Exeter)

James Richardson

Contact Details

School of Classics
E-mail: j.richardson@trinitysaintdavid.ac.uk

Location

Arts Building

Campus

Lampeter Campus

Job Title

Lecturer in Classics

Role in the University

Postgraduate Admissions Officer

Postgraduate Examinations Officer

Background

After completing my first degrees at the University of Auckland, in New Zealand, I came to the UK to read for a PhD.  I moved to Lampeter in 2003, and have been working here ever since.  I obtained my PhD from the University of Exeter in 2005.

Member of

Accordia Research Institute
Classical Association
Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

Academic Interests

Regal Rome; Republican Rome, especially the early and mid-Republican periods; the development of the Roman constitution; the literary tradition of Republican Rome; the historians of the Roman Republic; the development of literature at Rome.

Publications

Publications

The Fabii and the Gauls: Studies in Historical Thought and Historiography in Republican Rome (Historia Einzelschriften; Stuttgart), forthcoming.‘Ap. Claudius Caecus and the Corruption of the Roman Voting Assemblies: A New Interpretation of Livy 9.46.11’, Hermes, forthcoming.

‘L. Iunius Brutus the Patrician and the Political Allegiance of Q. Aelius Tubero’, Classical Philology 106 (2011), 155-61.

Ed., with F. Santangelo, Priests and State in the Roman World (Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge 33; Stuttgart, 2011), pp. 643.

‘Introduction’, jointly written with F. Santangelo, in J. H. Richardson and F. Santangelo, eds., Priests and State in the Roman World (2011), 17-23.

‘The Vestal Virgins and the Use of the Annales maximi’, in J. H. Richardson and F. Santangelo, eds., Priests and State in the Roman World (2011), 91-106.

‘The Oath per Iovem lapidem and the Community in Archaic Rome’, Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 153 (2010), 25-42.

‘Rome’s Treaties with Carthage: Jigsaw or Variant Traditions?’, in C. Deroux, ed., Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History XIV (Collection Latomus; Brussels, 2008), 84-94.

‘The pater patratus on a Roman Gold Stater: A Reading of RRC Nos. 28/1-2 and 29/1-2’, Hermes 136 (2008), 415-25.

‘Ancient Political Thought and the Development of the Consulship’, Latomus 67 (2008), 627-33.

‘Ancient Historical Thought and the Development of the Consulship’, Latomus 67 (2008), 328-41.

‘A Note on the Myth of Tages’, Bulletin Antieke Beschaving 83 (2008), 107-9.

‘On the Location of the urbs and tribus Scaptia’, Hermes 135 (2007), 166-73.

‘Dorsuo and the Gauls’, Phoenix 58 (2004), 284-97.

Additional Information

Conference Organisation

‘Ruin or Renewal? Places and the transformation of memory in the city of Rome’, Lampeter, 9-10/03/2012; with Dr Marta García Morcillo

‘Andreas Alföldi in the Twenty-First Century’, Lampeter, 31/08/2011-2/09/2011; with Dr Federico Santangelo (Newcastle)

‘Priests and State in the Roman World’, Lampeter, 28-30/08/2008; with Dr Federico Santangelo (Newcastle)

‘Myth and Society’, Gregynog, 25-26/05/2006

Current research

At the moment my research is primarily focused on two main areas: the influence which Roman historical and political thought and ideology had on the formation and nature of the literary tradition of early Rome; and the formation of the Roman state and constitution, and the development of associated ideas such as identity and citizenship.