Associate Professor of Classics

M.A., Ph.D., University of Washington
B.A., Tufts University

Professor Rohrbacher teaches Latin at all levels and Classical Civilization in all periods. He is also active in the concentrations in Literature, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and Gender Studies. He is a recent recipient of an Excellence in Teaching Award from the American Philological Association, the premier organization for the study of Classics in North America.

His scholarly interests include Latin literature, Roman history and historiography, and Late Antiquity. He is the author of The Historians of Late Antiquity (Routledge 2002) and articles and reviews on Roman imperial history and literature.

Recent Courses
The Ancient Novel: Pagan, Jewish, Christian
Elementary Latin II
Advanced Latin: Catullus, Poems

Selected Publications

Books
The Historians of Late Antiquity (Routledge, 2002).

Articles and Book Chapters
“Why Didn’t Constantius II Eat Fruit?”, Classical Quarterly 55.1 (2005): 323-26.

“Iudaei Fetentes at Amm. Marc. 22.5.5,” Mnemosyne 58.3 (2005): 441-42.

“Ammianus Marcellinus and Valerius Maximus,” Ancient History Bulletin 19.1-2 (2005): 20-30.

“The Sources of the Lost Books of Ammianus Marcellinus,” Historia 55.1 (2006): 106-24.

“Jerome, an Early Reader of Ammianus Marcellinus,” Latomus 65.2 (2006): 422-24.

“Ammianus’ Roman Digressions and the Audience of the Res Gestae,” in John Marincola, ed., Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography (Blackwell 2008), vol. 2, 468-73.

“Enmann’s Kaisergeschichte from Augustus to Domitian,” Latomus 68.3 (2009): 709-719.

“Physiognomics in Roman Imperial Biography,” Classical Antiquity 29.2 (2010): 94-119.

Reviews
Bowersock, Brown, and Grabar, Interpreting Late Antiquity (Harvard 2001), Electronic Antiquity 7.1 (2003).

Gavin Kelly, Ammianus Marcellinus: The Allusive Historian (Cambridge 2008), New England Classical Journal 36.2 (2009): 141-43.

Jan den Boeft et al., A Historical and Philological Commentary on Ammianus Marcellinus Book XXVI (Brill 2008), Mnemosyne 62 (2009): 689-92.

Lavinia Galli Milić and Nicole Hecquet-Noti, eds., Historiae Augustae: colloquium Genevense in honorem F. Paschoud septuagenarii. Les traditions historiographiques de l'Antiquité tardive: idéologie, propagande, fiction, réalité (Edipuglia 2010), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2011.04.41.

François Paschoud, ed., Histoire Auguste. Tome IV, 3e partie: Vies des Trente Tyrans et de Claude (Paris 2011), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2012.07.24.

New College of Florida
Division of Humanities
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Sarasota, FL 34243-2197

rohrbacher@ncf.edu
(941) 487-4213

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