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

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

  Rees, R., 2023, Brill’s Companion to Cassius Dio. Madsen, J. & Scott, A. (eds.). Brill, p. 406-426 20 p.

  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

• Authorising freedom of speech under Theodosius

  Rees, R. D., 19 Jul 2018, Imagining Emperors in the Later Roman Empire. Burgersdijk, D. & Ross, A. (eds.). Brill, p. 289-309 20 p.

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

• Hughes and the Classics

  Rees, R. D., Jun 2018, Ted Hughes in context. Gifford, T. (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 123-132

  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

• ‘A Hall of Mirrors: The Panegyricus and the Panegyrici’

  Rees, R. D., 2018, Concepts of Ideal Rulership from Antiquity to the Renaissance: 'Studies on the Transmission of Texts and Ideas'. Schorn, S. & Roskam, G. (eds.). Brepols, p. 255-292 37 p. (LECTIO; vol. 7).

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

• The poetics of Latin prose praise and the fourth-century curve

  Rees, R., 19 Jan 2017, The Poetics of late Latin literature. Elsner, J. & Hernández Lobato, J. (eds.). New York: Oxford University Press, p. 313-344 31 p. (Oxford studies in late antiquity).

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

• The ‘Entente Variable’: representations of Britain in the Gallic panegyrics

  Rees, R. D., 2017, LINGUARUM VARIETAS: Centro vs Periferia. Il Latino tra testi e contesti, lingua e letteratura. Fabrizio Serra, Vol. 6. p. 79-91

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

 

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