Diana started following the work of Erin Moodie, Colgate University, Classics.
Diana It is extraordinary how hard it is to concentrate on the finickities of formatting and editing a very long bibliography!
Diana started following the work of Eleanor Rust, University of Cincinnati, Classics.
Diana It was so cute, today: spent hours gnawing at Varro’s etymology for ‘Aventinus’, then walked dog around the real-life Aventine, touring the shadows/echoes of the textualised sites and routes. Workin... more
Faculty Member, Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity
Senior Lecturer in Classics
Arts and Law
About
I'm primarily interested in what we think Romans thought about themselves (as reflected in texts), how they conceptualized themselves as a people, and responded to (and were shaped by) the world they lived in. To this end, I've published on, and continue to research, a wide range of texts and topics - from why stories of Alexander the Great are so popular at Rome, to studies of Varro, Horace, Livy, Propertius, Valerius Maximus, Seneca, Lucan, Statius, and Q. Curtius Rufus.
Recently, I've focused on how language and memory intersect with reality in the visual and literary texts of the late Republic and first century CE. The book which developed from this is 'Roman Landscape: Culture and Identity' (Cambridge, 2010); a new project in development (with Siobhan McElduff, UBC, Vancouver) will explore the role and authority of translation within cultures experiencing conflict.
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