Alain M. GOWING
Professor and Chair
Department of Classics, Box 353110
University of Washington
218 Denny Hall
Seattle, WA 98195
e-mail: alain@u.washington.edu
Phone: 206-543-2270 (office and answering machine)
206-543-2266 (message)
FAX: 206-543-2267
Professor
of Classics (2005-present)
Associate Professor of Classics (1994 -2005)
Adjunct in History
Assistant Professor 1988-94
Empire and Memory: The Representation of the Roman Republic in Imperial Culture. Cambridge University Press 2005.
The Triumviral Narratives of Appian and Cassius Dio. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press 1992.
"Miscellaneous Minor Objects," co-authored with Lawrence Bliquez, forthcoming in Catalogue of the Collection of Antiquities at the American Academy in Rome.
The entry on ‘Appian of Alexandria’, in the Dictionary of African Bibliography, Dr. Henry Louis Gates and Dr. Emmanuel K. Akyeampong, editors-in-chief. Oxford University Press 2011.
“‘Caesar grabs my pen’: Writing civil war under Tiberius,” in Citizens of Discord: Rome and its Civil Wars, B.W. Breed, C. Damon and A. Rossi, edd., 249-60, Oxford University Press 2010.
“Rome and the ruin of memory,” Mouseion 52, series III, vol 8, no. 3 (2008) 451-67. [published 2010]
“From Polybius to Dionysius: the decline and fall of Hellenistic historiography,” in the Blackwell Companion to Hellenistic Literature, J. Clauss and M. Cuypers, edd., pp. 384-94, Wiley-Blackwell 2010.
“From the Annalists to the Annales: Latin Historiography before Tacitus”, in the Cambridge Companion to Tacitus, T. Woodman, ed., pp.17-30, Cambridge University Press 2009.
“The Roman exempla tradition in imperial Greek historiography: the case of Camillus,” in the Cambridge Companion to Roman Historiography, Andrew Feldherr, ed., pp. 332-47, Cambridge University Press 2009.
“Urbs Roma: Tacitus on Tiberius and the city”, in Maxima debetur magistro reverentia. Essays on Rome and the Roman Tradition in Honor of Russell T. Scott. Paul B. Harvey, Jr., and Catherine Conybeare, edd., pp. 93-106. Biblioteca di Athenaeum 54. Como 2009.Several articles (Lucius Brutus, Marcus Brutus, Philippi, triumvirs) in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome, M. Gagarin, ed., Oxford University Press 2009
“The imperial Republic of Velleius Paterculus,” in The Blackwell Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography, John Marincola, ed., pp. 411-18. Blackwell 2007.
"Pirates, Witches, and Slaves: the Imperial afterlife of Sextus Pompeius," in Sextus Pompeius, A. Powell and K. Welch, edd., pp. 187-211. Duckworth/Classical Press of Wales 2002.
"Memory and silence in Cicero's Brutus." Eranos 98 (2000) 39-64.
"Word-Order Transference between Latin and Greek: the relative position of the accusative direct object and the governing verb in Cassius Dio and other Greek and Roman prose authors." Co-authored with Bernard Frischer et al. Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 99 (1999) 357-90)
"Greek advice for a Roman senator: Cassius Dio and the Dialogue between Philiscus and Cicero (38.18-29)." Proceedings of the Leeds Latin Seminar. Vol. 10. F. Cairns and M. Heath, edd., 373-90. Leeds 1998.
"Cassius Dio on the reign of Nero." Aufstieg und Niedergang der Rmischen Welt II.34.3 (1997) 2558-90.
"Lepidus, the Proscriptions, and the Laudatio Turiae." Historia 41.3 (1992) 283-96.
"Appian and Rhodian Libertas." Ancient History Bulletin 5.5/6 (1991) 135-44.
"Tacitus and the Client Kings." Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association 120 (1990) 315-331.
"Appian and Cassius’ Speech before Philippi (BCiv. 4.90-100)." Phoenix 44 (1990) 158-81.
"Dio’s Name." Classical Philology 85 (1990) 49-54.
Review of C. B. Champion, Cultural Politics in Polybius’ Histories (Berkeley 2004), forthcoming in the Journal of Hellenic Studies (2007)
U. Walter, Memoria und res publica. Zur Geschichtskultur im republikanischen Rom. Munich 2004. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.07.56
P.G. Walsh, trans. Cicero. On Obligations. Oxford 2000. Latomus 63 (2004) 453-54.
C. Kraus, ed., The limits of historiography: genre and narrative in ancient historical texts. Brill 1999. Journal of Roman Studies 93 (2003) 342-43.
J. Chaplin, Livy’s Exemplary History. Oxford 2000. Classical Journal 99.2 (2003-04) 223-26.
C. L. Murison. Rebellion and Reconstruction: Galba to Domitian. An Historical Commentary on Cassius Dio’s Roman History Books 64-67 (A.D. 68-96). Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1999. Classical World 94.2 (2001) 200-01.
R. Gurval. Actium and Augustus. Ann Arbor 1995. For American Journal of Philology 118.4 (1997) 638-40.
J. Carter, trans. Appian. The Civil War. Penguin Classics 1996. For electronic journal Histos (1997) http://www.dur.ac.uk/Classics/histos/1997/gowing.html
J.S. Ruebel, Caesar and the Crisis of the Roman Aristocracy. Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1994. For Bryn Mawr Classical Review 5.7 (1994) 630-33.
B.W. Jones. The Emperor Domitian. London and New York: Routledge, 1992. For Bryn Mawr Classical Review 3.6 (1992) 462-65.
J.W. Rich, ed. and trans. Cassius Dio. The Augustan Settlement (Roman History 53-55.9). Aris & Phillips, 1990. For Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2.5 (1991) 318-20.
Averil Cameron, ed. History as Text (Chapel Hill 1990). For Bryn Mawr Classical Review 1.2 (1990) 46-49.
‘Tully’s Boat: Cicero in the imperial period,' in The Cambridge Companion to Cicero, C. Steel, ed. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2013.
Afterword to a collection of conference papers delivered at a colloquium entitled LA REPUBLIQUE ROMAINE DANS LA POESIE AUGUSTEENNE (March 2007). The conference volume is titled Augustan Poetry and the Roman Republic, J. Farrell and D. Nelis, edd. Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2013.
‘Memory and Motive in Tacitus’, article solicited for a conference volume to be published by Oxford University Press (2013). This was originally an invite paper delivered at a conference entitled “MEMORY AND ROMAN CULTURE” – “GEDÄCHTNIS UND RÖMISCHE KULTUR”, Bochum, Rühr-Universität, 12-13 November 2010, one of a series of conferences organized by Karl Galinsky (Texas/Bochum) in connection with his three-year Max-Planck Research Prize for International Cooperation (overall title of the project is Memoria Romana).
Review, Velleius Paterculus, ed. E. Cowan (Classical Press of Wales 2011), for Classical Journal.
Genius urbis. The city of Rome in Latin historiography. (working title) Book-length study of the role of Rome and urban space in Sallust, Livy, and Tacitus.
“Memory as Motive in Tacitus,” invited conference paper, “MEMORY AND ROMAN CULTURE” – “GEDÄCHTNIS UND RÖMISCHE KULTUR”, Bochum, Rühr-Universität, 12-13 November 2010.
“Rome, ruins, and memory: lessons from Livy”. Rutledge Memorial Lecture, Univ. of Tennessee, 31 October 2008.
“Rome and the Ruin of Memory,” Keynote Address, 2008 meeting of the Classical Association of the Canadian West, Univ. of Alberta (14 March 2008
“Lucan’s Republic and the Deceits of Memory,” invited paper delivered at the conference Politics, Violence and the Republican Imagination: Lucan and this Legacy (Princeton University, 3-5 October 2003)
Invited Discussant, “Seeing Slaves in Ancient Rome,” colloquium sponsored by the Dept. of Classics, University of California at Berkeley, 1-3 November 2002
"Seneca, Lucan, and the Politics of Memory in Neronian Rome," (Stanford University, 17 May 2002)
"Seneca's Neronian Republic" (2 November 2001, University of Calgary, Colloquium on Roman Social History sponsored by the Dept. of Classics)
Invited Discussant, "Virgil's Social Memory," (colloquium sponsored by the Dept. of Classics, Stanford University, 23-24 February 2001)
"Bring out the dead: memory and history in post-Augustan Rome" (8 December 2000, Loeb Lecture, Harvard University)
"Pirates, Witches, and Slaves: The Imperial Afterlife of Sextus Pompey" (conference on Sextus Pompey, 5-6 July 1999, University of Wales Institute of Classics and Ancient History, Hay-on-Wye, Wales)
"Perversions of Memory: Republic as Rhetoric in Imperial Rome" (8 May 1999, Conference on Rhetoric in Practice, sponsored by Dept. of Classics, Dept. of Speech Communication, Dept. of History, the Walker-Ames Lectureship, and the Simpson Humanities Center, University of Washington)
"Memory as History in Tacitus" (6 March 1998), as invited participant in conference entitled History, Memory, Evidence, sponsored by the Department of Classics, New York University
"Memory and silence in Cicero's Brutus" (1996 meeting of the American Philological Association, New York)
"Sallust's Cicero" (1995 joint meeting of the Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest/Classical Association of the Canadian West in Banff)
"Cassius Dio and the Reception of Cicero" (18 February 1994, University of Victoria)
"Greek advice for a Roman senator (Cassius Dio 38.18-29)" (7 May 1993, Leeds International Latin Seminar, Leeds, England)
"N°rvn toiaËta §trag–dei : Theatricality in Cassius Dio's account of Nero" (1992 meeting of the American Philological Association, New Orleans)
"Lepidus' Role in the Proscriptions of 43/42 BC" (1990 meeting of the American Philological Association, San Francisco)
"Past and Present in the Historiography of the Second Century AD" (6 April 1990, annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, as participant on a panel on Cultural Archaism and Classical Erudition in the Second Century AD)
"Poetry and Politics in Vergil's Aeneid" (3 October 1989, as part of Visiting Educators Program at Whitman College, during which I also conducted a seminar on the historical figures in the underworld in Aeneid 6)
"Tacitus and the Client Kings" (1989 meeting of the Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest)
"Appian and the Proscriptions of 43 BC" (Spring 1988, Bryn Mawr Classics Colloquium)
"The Speech of Cassius: Appian BC 4.90-100" (1987 meeting of the American Philological Association, New York)
“Ancient Ghosts of the Palazzo Pio,” UW Rome Center, 12 May 2010.
“The Early Kings of Rome (and why you should care),” Junior Classical League, Lakeside School, 25 April 2009.
“’Roman Wives for 500, Alex’. A History of Roman Marriage”. Junior Classical League, Roosevelt HS, 12 April 2008.
UW Dean’s Club Presentation (with Margaret Laird [Art History] and Sandra Joshel [History]) on ‘Roman Art from the Louvre’ (on the Louvre exhibit at the Seattle Art Museum from February 19 to May 18, 2008). 31 January 2008
“‘A little rebellion is a good thing’: Reading Sallust’s Catiline”. Judd Kimball Lecture, Whitman College, 3 November 2006. Click here to listen to this talk.
"Pictures of Cleopatra: Teaching Shakespeare, Plutarch, and Elizabeth Taylor”, with Prof. John Webster (UW English), Annual Teachers Conference on Classical Studies, sponsored by UW Dept. of Classics, 22 April 2006.
“Of Texts and Tombs: The Archaeology of Roman Memory” (12 April 2005), Sixth Annual AIA/Faculty Lecture, Univ. of Washington
“Walking with Ghosts on Rome’s Appian Way” (20 November 2004), Reed College Latin Day
“The Appian Way: Rome's Road of Memory” (19 February 2004), The 2004 Annual C. May Marston Annual Lecture, Seattle Pacific University
“Old Money: A Short History of Currency in Classical Antiquity” (6 May 2003, Phi Beta Kappa Spring Quarter Forum)
"Fifteen things you probably never knew about Julius Caesar" (5 December 2002, Roosevelt High School, Seattle)
"Julius Caesar in film" (10 March 2001, 2001 meeting of the Junior Classical League, University of Washington)
"Who was Julius Caesar? Roman memory versus modern history" (9 October 1998, Sequim Lecture Society)
"Forsan et haec olim oblivisci iuvabit: The memory of Caesar in imperial literature" (UW Dept. of Classics Lunchtime colloquium, 30 October 1997)
"How to become a Roman Emperor" (3 May 1997, 1997 meeting of the Junior Classical League, Roosevelt High School, Seattle, WA)
"Computers and the Classics: An Introduction to the Perseus Database" (5 March 1994, Conference on Teaching Classics in the Schools, sponsored by UW Classics Dept.
"Rebels and Writers: The Opposition to Augustus and Imperial Historians" (Feb. 17, 1994, Classical Association of Vancouver Island, Victoria, Canada)
"Doing Ancient History: The Case of Augustus" (Feb. 27, 1993 Conference on Teaching Classics in the Schools, sponsored by UW Classics Dept.)
"Ancient Perugia at the Crossroads Between Republic and Empire" (17 September 1991, meeting of the Seattle-Perugia Sister City Association)
"Careers in Classics" (14 February 1991, Pantheon/Zeta Zeta, the UW Chapter of Eta Sigma Phi [National Honorary Classical Fraternity] -- repeated in 1992 and 1993)
"Greek Mythology and Classical Art" (23 April 1989, Junior Classical League, Roosevelt High School, Seattle WA)
Member, Editorial Board, Classical Antiquity 2004-present
Member, Editorial Board, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 1990-2005
Associate Editor, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2005-present