Adam Kemezis

About

I am a Roman historian specializing in the historiography of the Roman Empire, and in Roman politics and culture of the Empire in the second to fifth centuries CE. Most of my work is on literary texts (Cassius Dio, Philostratus, Tacitus, Lucian, the Historia Augusta) but I am also interested in larger historical questions to do with the political culture of the Roman Empire and the nature of the Roman monarchy. I have published one monograph, Greek Narratives of the Roman Empire under the Severans: Cassius Dio, Philostratus and Herodian (Cambridge, 2014), as well as recently co-editing (with Colin Bailey and Beatrice Poletti) The Intellectual Climate of Cassius Dio: Greek and Roman Pasts (Brill, 2022) and I have more than 20 published articles on the authors and historical topics mentioned above. My main current project is an introductory monograph on the Historia Augusta. I am also the managing editor and book reviews editor of Histos, (https://histos.org) a long-standing online open-access journal specializing in historiographical writing from ancient Greece and Rome.

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Teaching

Courses I regularly teach include:

Classics 102: Greek and Roman Mythology
Classics 221: Literature of Greece and Rome
Classics 261: Women, Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient World
Classics 283: Introductory Roman History II

I also teach Latin at all levels and upper-level Greek. Recent topics for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses have included:

Lucian
Latin Writings on Northern "Barbarians"
Dissent and Resistance in Imperial Rome
Catastrophe, Transformation and the End of Antiquity: Constantine to Attila
Sophocles' Antigone
Race, Class and Identity in Imperial Rome

I am available to supervise graduate projects on any aspects of Roman history and literature, especially of the Imperial period.

CLASS 102 - Greek and Roman Mythology

A survey of classical mythology with readings in translation from various ancient authors as well as from modern scholarly works.

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CLASS 463 - Topics in Roman History

Prerequisite: Any CLASS course at the 200 level or above or consent of Department. May be repeated for credit when course content differs.

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CLASS 524 - Topics in Roman History

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LATIN 406 - Topics in Latin Poetry

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LATIN 506 - Topics in Latin Poetry

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