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 and third 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.

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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. Recent topics for 400/500 seminars have included:

Ovid
Lucian
Latin Writings on Northern "Barbarians"
Dissent and Resistance in Imperial Rome
Catastrophe, Transformation and the End of Antiquity: Constantine to Attila

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

CLASS 399 - Topics in the Ancient World

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CLASS 500 - Fourth-Year Honors Tutorial

Prerequisite: consent of Department.

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GREEK 475 - Topics in Greek Drama

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GREEK 575 - Topics in Greek Drama

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LATIN 101 - Beginners' Latin I

Elements of Latin grammar and reading of simple texts. Note: Not to be taken by students with credit in Latin 30 or Latin 103.

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LATIN 201 - Intermediate Latin I

Review of grammar; reading of Latin texts; translation of simple sentences from English into Latin. Prerequisite: LATIN 102, 103, or 104 or consent of Department. Not open to students with credit in LATIN 301.

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