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Simon Malloch

Lecturer in Roman History, Faculty of Arts

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Biography

​After completing my undergraduate degree at the University of Western Australia in Perth I moved to St John's College, Cambridge, to write my doctorate on Tacitus. I have taught at University College Dublin and the University of Cambridge, have been a wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae in Munich, and have held an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet in Munich and, in 2011, a Visiting Fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford. I joined the Department in Nottingham in 2009.

Expertise Summary

Roman history of the late Republic and early Empire; the Parthian empire; Latin historiography, in particular Tacitus; exemplarity in Roman culture; history of classical scholarship.

Teaching Summary

Since joining the Dept. in 2009, I have taught wide-ranging modules on the Roman empire in the East (from Pyrrhus to Julian's Persian campaigns) and on Augustus, and contributed to many other Roman… read more

Research Summary

I am completing an edition of Tacitus Annals 11 (text and commentary) for the Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries ('orange') series published by Cambridge University Press.

Selected Publications

  • MALLOCH, S.J.V., 2010. Hamlet without the Prince? The Claudian Annals. In: WOODMAN, A. J., ed., The Cambridge Companion to Tacitus Cambridge University Press.

Since joining the Dept. in 2009, I have taught wide-ranging modules on the Roman empire in the East (from Pyrrhus to Julian's Persian campaigns) and on Augustus, and contributed to many other Roman history modules. In addition, every year I teach one or two Latin language and/or literature modules.

Future Research

Projects include: an edition of Claudius' inscribed speech on the admission of the Gallic nobles to Rome (text, translation, and historical and philological commentary); a monograph on Frontinus' Strategemata in its historical and literary context; and more commentary (Tacitus, Plutarch)...

  • MALLOCH, S.J.V., 2012. Review of G. Woolf, Rome: an empire's story (Oxford, 2012) The Literary Review. (In Press.)
  • MALLOCH, S.J.V., 2011. Review of R. Mellor, Tacitus' Annals (Oxford, 2010) Times Literary Supplement. February 18,
  • MALLOCH, S.J.V., 2010. Hamlet without the Prince? The Claudian Annals. In: WOODMAN, A. J., ed., The Cambridge Companion to Tacitus Cambridge University Press.
  • MALLOCH, S.J.V., 2010. Review of D. Sailor, Writing and Empire in Tacitus (Cambridge, 2010) Classical World. 104, 126-27
  • MALLOCH, S.J.V., 2010. Review of J.Richardson, The Language of empire (Cambridge, 2009) Classical World. 103, 559-60
  • MALLOCH, S.J.V., 2010. pompabilis, pompabiliter, pompabilitas, pompalis, pompaliter, pompalitas, pompatilis, pompatus, pompeuticus, pompicus, pompifero, pompo, pontificius, popularitas At: Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, vol.X,1 fasc.XVII pomifer–porrus
  • MALLOCH, S.J.V., 2009. Gaius’ Persecution of the Nobiles: A Study in the Politics of Memory and Nomenclature Athenaeum. 97, 489-506
  • MALLOCH, S.J.V., 2008. Scriba Pontificius (Livy 22. 57. 3 and SHA Opil. 7. 2) Philologus. 152, 155-58
  • MALLOCH, S.J.V., 2008. pullo At: Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, vol.X,2 fasc.XVI pubertus-pulso
  • MALLOCH, S.J.V., 2006. Review of A. R. Birley, The Roman Government of Britain (Oxford, 2005) Bryn Mawr Classical Review.
  • MALLOCH, S.J.V., 2005. Review of A. A. Barrett, Livia: First Lady of Imperial Rome (New Haven and London, 2002) Classical World. 98, 218-219
  • MALLOCH, S.J.V., 2005. Review of J. C. Yardley, Justin and Pompeius Trogus: A Study of the Language of Justin’s Epitome of Trogus (Toronto, 2003) Classical World. 99, 91-92
  • MALLOCH, S.J.V., 2005. The Date of Corbulo’s Campaigns in Lower Germany Museum Helveticum. 62, 76-83
  • MALLOCH, S.J.V., 2004. The Death of Ptolemy of Mauretania Historia. 53, 38-45
  • MALLOCH, S.J.V., 2004. The End of the Rhine Mutiny in Tacitus, Suetonius, and Dio Classical Quarterly. 54, 198-210
  • MALLOCH, S.J.V., 2004. Review of W. Eck, The Age of Augustus (Oxford, 2003) Classical Review. 54, 175-176
  • MALLOCH, S.J.V., 2004. Review of D. Womersley, Gibbon and the ‘Watchmen of the Holy City’: The Historian and his Reputation 1776-1815 (Oxford, 2002) Prudentia. 36, 81-84
  • MALLOCH, S.J.V., 2001. Gaius' Bridge at Baiae and Alexander-imitatio Classical Quarterly. 51, 206-17
  • MALLOCH, S.J.V., 2001. Gaius on the Channel Coast Classical Quarterly. 51, 551-56
  • MALLOCH, S.J.V, 2001. Who were the Rudes Nepotes at Tac. Ann. 4. 8. 3? Classical Quarterly. 51, 628-31
  • MALLOCH, S.J.V., Review of J. Osgood, Claudius Caesar: Image and Power in the Early Roman Empire (Cambridge, 2010) Gnomon. (In Press.)
  • MALLOCH, S.J.V., Review of C.Smith and A.Powell, The Lost Memoirs of Augustus and the Development of Roman Autobiography (Swansea, 2009) Classical Review. (In Press.)

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