Classics in Progress

T. P. Wiseman is Emeritus Professor of Roman History at the University of Exeter and a Fellow of the British Academy. He came to Exeter in 1977, and was Head of Department from 1977 to 1990. His published books include Catullan Questions (1969), New Men in the Roman Senate (1971), Cinna the Poet (1974), Catullus and his World (1985), Roman Political Life (1985), and Remembering the Roman People (2009). And on the study of Roman historiography, and from there to the myth-history of early Rome: see Clio’s Cosmetics (1979), Historiography and Imagination (1994), Remus: A Roman Myth (1995), Roman Drama and Roman History (1998), The Myths of Rome (2004), which won the American Philological Association’s Goodwin Award of Merit, and Unwritten Rome (2008)

Anyone who questions whether there remains value in studying ancient Greeks and Romans need only consult almost any page of this volume to find a discipline that, far from dead, is kicking and scratching as it continues to grow. The Historian

• Contemporary Poetry and ClassicsA Taste for the ClassicsNew Texts and Old TheoriesThe Use of Images: Visual History and Ancient HistoryCiceronian Correspondence: Making a Book out of LettersDiscovery, Autopsy and Progress: Diocletian's Jigsaw PuzzlesThe 'Long' Late Antiquity: a Late Twentieth-Century ModelRecolonising EgyptGreek History: a Discipline in TransformationGreek Civilisation and SlaverySocrates on Trial in the USARoman History and the Ideological VacuumLook Your Last on Lyric: Horace Odes iv.15Another Look at Virgil's Ganymede; Indifference Readings: Plato and the Stoa on Socratic EthicsGalen, Christians, LogicRhetoric in Mid-Antiquity