Thomas H Watkins

Biographic Data

ID1059745
NAMEThomas H Watkins
GIVEN NAMESThomas H
FAMILY NAMEWatkins
SIGNATUREWATKINS T H
AFFILIATIONSPresident of the Pennsylvania Coal an d Coke Corporation
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS30
TOTAL CITATIONS43
WORKS AS AUTHOR30
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1922
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
H-INDEX3

  • Epilogue

    Thomas H WatkinsCHAPTERL. Munatius Plancus2018

    In 1810–1812 during the Napoleonic occupation of Rome French archaeologists freed the entire structure from rubble and houses, and in 1834 Luigi Canina correctly identified it as of Saturn. The great two-tiered cylindrical mausoleum of Augustus between the Via Lata and the Tiber in the Campus has undergone even more vicissitudes. In AD 37 Caligula brought the ashes of his mother Agrippina to Rome and placed them in it. Her gravestone survives, so…

  • Plancus the Augustan

    Thomas H WatkinsCHAPTERL. Munatius Plancus2018

    Plancus&s; participation in the restoration of the Roman state is attested in only three settings, and at first sight it is as though he was brought out of a closet or pulled off a shelf to play an assigned role. As before, his emergence is unexplained, but the censorship was intended to be another demonstration of the res publica restituta . A combination of factors, including an unspecified disagreement with his colleague, prevented fulfillment…

  • Plancus the Caesarian, 54–44

    Thomas H WatkinsCHAPTERL. Munatius Plancus2018

    By his thirteenth year Plancus had taken the first steps on the cursus honorum and may well have started a family. On grounds of chronological probability, one would expect him to have married by this time, and he may have had a son by 55, though neither wife nor child is certain. He was probably quaestor and thus a senator in 55, as he became a legate under Caesar in 54. The quaestorship may be the only office to which Plancus was ever elected i…

  • Plancus without Caesar

    Thomas H WatkinsCHAPTERL. Munatius Plancus2018

    Plancus had no more insight than anyone else, and now for the first time he was mostly on his own. Caesar&s;s favor underlay his rise to a position of power and prominence and promised yet more–the consulship. Plancus was high in Antony&s;s favor for a decade, 42–32, but we lack the information to assess his duties accurately. After the elimination of Antony, the triumphant Octavian suppressed nearly all pro-Antonian material, some of which would…

  • Plancus the Antonian

    Thomas H WatkinsCHAPTERL. Munatius Plancus2018

    This chapter demonstrates that Plancus stands alone; his success and prominence are without parallel. From the autumn of 43 Plancus was an adherent of Antony and by 36 his chief subordinate. Three of Antony&s;s highest-ranking affiliates in these years were nobiles of much greater dignitas than the novus et municipalis Plancus. Antony is said to have encountered friends there and learned from them the full extent of the troubles Fulvia and Lucius…

  • Family and homeland

    Thomas H WatkinsCHAPTERL. Munatius Plancus2018

    This chapter presents the evidence for Plancus&s; ancestors and immediate family, the important friendship with Cicero, shift Munatian gens&s; homeland to the area of Formiae-Caieta, and make a case that the Aemilii Lepidi were among their patrons. A transposition of Plancus&s; home and reinterpretation of scattered evidence yields a workable hypothesis that the family was from southern Latium and his tribe the Aemilia. The inscription over the d…

  • Plancus the reluctant warrior

    Thomas H WatkinsCHAPTERL. Munatius Plancus2018

    Plancus, Lepidus, and Pollio could not move their armies across the Alps as long as snow blocked the passes, but they could use the coastal Viae Domitia and Aurelia. Brutus and Cassius were confined to east of the Adriatic while the seas were unsafe for transporting armies. The general desire to avoid renewed civil war worked in Antony&s;s favor, but only if statesmen moved quickly. That left Plancus in Gallia Comata. The Alps would keep Antony o…

  • The evidence

    Thomas H WatkinsCHAPTERL. Munatius Plancus2018

    For more than two millennia the reputation of L. Munatius Plancus has suffered from a steady drumbeat of denunciation, condemnation of the person arising from disapproval of what appear to be self-serving actions, and a lack of stability. Plancus&s; service under Antony kept Plancus in positions of trust and power for a decade, and modern scholars admit the soundness of Antony&s;s administration of the eastern domains of Rome. No source details P…

  • Plancus in transition and Horace, Ode 1.7

    Thomas H WatkinsCHAPTERL. Munatius Plancus2018

    Horace&s;s collected odes of books 1–3 were released to the public in 23. At some date prior to that he dedicated a poem to Plancus later appeared as the seventh in the first book, one of the so-called "parade odes." Ode 1.7 was sent to Plancus as an individual presentation some time before Horace "published" the first three books. Horace gives no indication that Tiburis tui means anything more than that Tibur was a favorite residence of Plancus …

  • Colonia Marciana Traiana Thamugadi

    Thomas H WatkinsARTICLEPhoenix2002Cited by: 1

  • Pisidian Antioch. The Site and Its Monuments

    Thomas H Watkins, Stephen Mitchell et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World2001

  • Rome and Baetica

    Thomas H Watkins, A T Fear et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1998

  • Cremna in Pisidia

    Thomas H Watkins, Stephen Mitchell et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1998

  • L. Munatius Plancus

    Thomas H WatkinsBOOKL. Munatius Plancus1997Cited by: 16

    This volume examines the life and career of L. Munatius Plancus, and through him, explores the tumultuous final years of the Roman Republic. Plancus had very active and lengthy political career, from his initial appearance on the staff of Julius Caesar in Gaul in 54BC at least through the censorship of 22BC. During this time, he was in close contact for over 30 years with all the major figures during a period of tremendous political and social up…

  • Imperium Romanum

    Thomas H Watkins, Andrew LintottARTICLEThe Classical World1996

  • The Ancient Mariners

    Thomas H Watkins, Lionel CassonARTICLEThe Classical World1994

  • Antonia Augusta

    Thomas H Watkins, Nikos Kokkinos et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1994Cited by: 19

    Antonia Augusta was the most powerful and influential Roman woman of her time. The daughter of Mark Antony, wife of Drusus, mother of Claudius, grandmother of Caligula and great-grandmother of Nero, she spent her entire life close to the seat of power and was a supremely important figure in Imperial Rome. In this illustrated biography, Nikos Kokkinos draws upon a variety of evidence, including inscriptions, coins, papyri and sculpture, to illumin…

  • The Sacred Identity of Ephesos

    Thomas H Watkins, Guy H R RogersARTICLEThe Classical World1993

  • An Atlas of Roman Britain

    Thomas H Watkins, Barri Jones et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1992

  • Exploring the Roman World

    Thomas H Watkins, Anthony KingARTICLEThe Classical World1992

  • Imperatores Victi

    Thomas H Watkins, Nathan Rosenstein et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1991

  • Gallia Narbonensis

    Thomas H Watkins, A L F RivetARTICLEThe Classical World1991

  • The Influence of Sea Power on Ancient History

    Thomas H Watkins, Chester G StarrARTICLEThe Journal of Military History1990

    This book is a survey of the various attempts to control the Mediterranean from the Bronze Age to the fall of the Roman Empire. Starr demonstrates that control of the seas was not always a strategic necessity in the ancient world. His theory is an important corrective to the influential teachings of the strategist Alfred Thayer Mahan

  • The City of Bath

    Thomas H Watkins, Barry CunliffeARTICLEThe Classical World1989

  • The Education of Julius Caesar

    Thomas H Watkins, Arthur D KahnARTICLEMilitary Affairs1987