Robin Seager
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1102287 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Robin Seager |
| PRENOMES | Robin |
| SOBRENOME | Seager |
| ASSINATURA | SEAGER R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Liverpool |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4772-9707 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 57 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 202 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 57 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1963 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Framing the frame
Placing the east-west North American aridity gradient in a multi-century context
Instrumental records indicate a century-long trend towards drying over western North America and wetting over eastern North America. A continuation of these trends into the future would have significant hydroclimatic and socioeconomic consequences in both the semi-arid Southwest and humid East. Using tree-ring reconstructions and hydrologic simulations of summer soil moisture, we evaluate and contextualize the modern summer aridity gradient withi…
Ciceronian Invective
A developing food crisis and potential refugee movements
Commentary on the Syria case
American Journal of Ancient History
The historic American Journal of Ancient History. This volume contains 8 articles: John G. Griffith, 'A Note on the First Eisphora at Athens', G.V. Sumner, 'The Pompeii in Their Families', Allen M. Ward, 'Caesar and the Pirates II: The Elusive M. Iunius Iuncus and the Year 75/4', Chr. Habicht, 'Athenisches Ehrendekret vom Jahre des Koroibos (306/5) für einen königlichen Offizier', Robin Seager, 'Amicitia in Tacitus and Juvenal', Sarah B. Pomeroy,…
The improbable but unexceptional occurrence of megadrought clustering in the American West during the Medieval Climate Anomaly
The five most severe and persistent droughts in the American West (AW) during the Common Era occurred during a 450 year period known as the Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA—850–1299 C.E.). Herein we use timeseries modeling to estimate the probability of such a period of hydroclimate change occurring. Clustering of severe and persistent drought during an MCA-length period occurs in approximately 10% of surrogate timeseries that were constructed to ha…
El Niño's impact on California precipitation
California has experienced severe drought in recent years posing great challenges to agricultural production, water resources, and land management. El Niño, as the prime source of seasonal to interannual climate predictability, offers the potential of amelioration of drought in California. Here El Niño's impacts on California winter precipitation are examined, focusing on variations by season, region, and the strength of El Niño using observation…
North American megadroughts in the Common Era
During the Medieval Climate Anomaly ( MCA ), Western North America experienced episodes of intense aridity that persisted for multiple decades or longer. These megadroughts are well documented in many proxy records, but the causal mechanisms are poorly understood. General circulation models ( GCMs ) simulate megadroughts, but do not reproduce the temporal clustering of events during the MCA , suggesting they are not caused by the time history of …
Old World megadroughts and pluvials during the Common Era
An atlas of megadroughts in Europe and in the Mediterranean Basin during the Common Era provides insights into climate variability.
The (Re/De)construction of Clodius in Cicero's Speeches
The purpose of this paper is to examine the variations in Cicero's treatment of Clodius in his speeches and to suggest reasons why these variations occur. The treatment of five principal themes will be considered: (1) Clodius' relationship with Gabinius and Piso; (2) Clodius’ alleged link with Catiline and/or surviving Catilinarians; (3) the Bona Dea affair; (4) Clodius’ alleged incest with one or more of his sisters; (5) Clodius’ supposed insani…
Polybius’ Distortions of the Roman ‘Constitution’
Polybius' account of the mixed constitution of Rome in Book 6 has recently been viewed through the lens of debate over whether oligarchic or democratic elements predominate. It is important, however, to see Book 6 as written in the light of two axioms of great importance: Polybius' belief that the Roman constitution was responsible for her rise to power, and that the mixed constitution was the best of all constitutions. These determining principl…
Perceptions of the Domus Augusta, ad4–24
Rome and Persia 357–9
This chapter deals with two aspects of Ammianus Marcellinus's account of the satrap Tamsapor's role in the renewal of hostilities between Rome and Persia on Rome's eastern frontier in AD 359. The first section argues that Tamsapor deliberately sabotaged the negotiations initiated by the prefect Musonianus in 357. The reactions and motives of Sapor II and Constantius II are also examined. The second section investigates the precise nature of Tamsa…
Megadroughts in North America
IPCC Assessment Report 4 model projections suggest that the subtropical dry zones of the world will both dry and expand poleward in the future due to greenhouse warming. The US Southwest is particularly vulnerable in this regard and model projections indicate a progressive drying there out to the end of the 21st century. At the same time, the USA has been in a state of drought over much of the West for about 10 years now. While severe, this turn …
Model Projections of an Imminent Transition to a More Arid Climate in Southwestern North America
How anthropogenic climate change will affect hydroclimate in the arid regions of southwestern North America has implications for the allocation of water resources and the course of regional development. Here we show that there is a broad consensus among climate models that this region will dry in the 21st century and that the transition to a more arid climate should already be under way. If these models are correct, the levels of aridity of the r…
North American drought
North American droughts of the mid to late nineteenth century
Unlike the major droughts of the twentieth century that are readily identified in the instrumental record, similar events in the nineteenth century have to be identified using a combination of proxy data, historical accounts and a sparse collection of early instrumental records. In the USA, three distinct periods of widespread and persistent drought stand out in these records for the latter half of the nineteenth century: 1856-1865, 1870-1877 and…
Tiberius
Tacitus, Annals 1.7.1–5
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Xenophon and Athenian Democratic Ideology
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Suppression of El Niño during the Mid‐Holocene by changes in the Earth's orbit
A number of recent reports have interpreted paleoproxy data to describe the state of the tropical Pacific, especially changes in the behavior of the El Niño‐Southern Oscillation (ENSO), over the Holocene. These interpretations are often contradictory, especially for the eastern tropical Pacific and adjacent areas of South America. Here we suggest a picture of the mid‐Holocene tropical Pacific region which reconciles the data. ENSO variability was…
Roman policy on the Rhine and the Danube in Ammianus
On the northern frontiers, as on the eastern, Ammianus conceives of Rome's policy as fundamentally defensive. The essential requirement is to keep the barbarians out, or, if past negligence or failure has let them in, to drive them out, then keep them out for the future. But throughout his work there emerges a consistent constellation of themes
The guilt or innocence of sex. roscius
Ammianus and the Status of Armenia in the Peace of 363
Pompey
Tiberius
Robin Seager traces the life of Tiberius from his birth in Rome in 42 bc during the death throes of the Republic, through his military career and reign as Emperor, to his death in ad 37. Tiberius’ complex character is the key to understanding his reign. Challenging the common ancient view of Tiberius as a consummate hypocrite, Seager portrays him instead as a man whose virtues and beliefs were corrupted by power, who lost his grasp of reality as …
Xenophon and Athenian Democratic Ideology
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Cicero and the Word Popularis
It has by now become a commonplace among the historians of the republic that optimates and populares were not political parties in any modern sense. Nevertheless the ghost of the ‘popular party’ still lingers in subtle disguises, the most insidious of which is donned whenever populares is translated as ‘the populares ’, with all that the definite article may imply
Populares’ in Livy and the Livian Tradition
This paper essays a reconstruction of Livy's attitude to and treatment of the major ‘popularis’ figures of the late republic, from Ti. Gracchus to Cinna and Carbo. The opening section examines four situations involving ‘popularis’ prototypes: the careers of Sp. Cassius, Sp. Maelius, and Manlius Capitolinus and the fall of Ap. Claudius the decemvir. It first considers Livy's use of what by his time had become standard themes in writing about ‘popu…
Factio
When the word ‘party’ became obscene in the context of the history of the Roman republic, it was frequently replaced by ‘faction’—or factio , to give an air of authenticity. It is the purpose of this paper to examine the occurrences of factio in writers of the republic and early principate in order to discover to what extent the usage of modern historians is justified by the sources. It will not be denied that there are numerous occasions when fa…
Tiberius
Herodotus and Ath.Pol. on the Date of Cleisthenes' Reforms
Framing the frame
Perceptions of eastern frontier policy in Ammianus, Libanius, and Julian (337–363)
It is the purpose of this paper to examine how Ammianus, Libanius, and Julian conceived of Roman policy on the eastern frontier from the death of Constantine to failure of Julian′s invasion of Persia. Any consideration of the actual facts is secondary. The predominant conclusion will be that all three saw Rome′s as essentially defensive, her objective as the containment of persistent aggression. This will be seen to hold good even for Julian′s in…
The Freedom of the Greeks of Asia
In an earlier paper Christopher Tuplin and I attempted to establish the date and circumstances of the emergence of the concept of ‘the Greeks of Asia’ and the consequent appearance of ‘the freedom of the Greeks of Asia’ as a political slogan. It was there suggested that concept and slogan first crystallized shortly before the Peace of Antalcidas, and that the freedom of the Greeks of Asia first acquired its full force as a catchword when that fre…
North American megadroughts in the Common Era
During the Medieval Climate Anomaly ( MCA ), Western North America experienced episodes of intense aridity that persisted for multiple decades or longer. These megadroughts are well documented in many proxy records, but the causal mechanisms are poorly understood. General circulation models ( GCMs ) simulate megadroughts, but do not reproduce the temporal clustering of events during the MCA , suggesting they are not caused by the time history of …
North American droughts of the mid to late nineteenth century
Unlike the major droughts of the twentieth century that are readily identified in the instrumental record, similar events in the nineteenth century have to be identified using a combination of proxy data, historical accounts and a sparse collection of early instrumental records. In the USA, three distinct periods of widespread and persistent drought stand out in these records for the latter half of the nineteenth century: 1856-1865, 1870-1877 and…
Commentary on the Syria case
Roman policy on the Rhine and the Danube in Ammianus
On the northern frontiers, as on the eastern, Ammianus conceives of Rome's policy as fundamentally defensive. The essential requirement is to keep the barbarians out, or, if past negligence or failure has let them in, to drive them out, then keep them out for the future. But throughout his work there emerges a consistent constellation of themes
Notes on Aristophanes
Commentators offer no satisfactory explanation of why Cleon's satellite Theorus should be sitting on the ground. Van Leeuwen suggests ‘ut infra in convivio’, which seems far-fetched and at best premature, for, though it might suit the character of Theorus as flatterer, that character is not revealed by Alcibiades' speech impediment till 45. It may be that there is nothing to explain, that Theorus is sitting on the ground because there is nowhere …
The (Re/De)construction of Clodius in Cicero's Speeches
The purpose of this paper is to examine the variations in Cicero's treatment of Clodius in his speeches and to suggest reasons why these variations occur. The treatment of five principal themes will be considered: (1) Clodius' relationship with Gabinius and Piso; (2) Clodius’ alleged link with Catiline and/or surviving Catilinarians; (3) the Bona Dea affair; (4) Clodius’ alleged incest with one or more of his sisters; (5) Clodius’ supposed insani…
Herodotus and Ath.Pol. on the Date of Cleisthenes' Reforms
The Date of Saturninus' Murder
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A. Watson, The Law of Persons in the Later Roman Republic. Oxford
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R. Frei-Stolba, Untersuchungen zu den Wahlen in der römischen Kaiserzeit. Zürich
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D. Earl, The Moral and Political Tradition of Rome (Aspects of Greek and Roman Life.) London
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M. Gelzer, Cicero Und Caesar. (Sitzungsberichte der wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft an der Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität, Frankfurt-am-Main, Band 7, Jahrgang 1968, Nr. 1.) Wiesbaden
Reviews and Notices of Publications - M. Gelzer, Cicero Und Caesar. (Sitzungsberichte der wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft an der Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität, Frankfurt-am-Main, Band 7, Jahrgang 1968, Nr. 1.) Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1968. Pp. 25. DM 3.40. - Volume 60 Issue 1
Factio
When the word ‘party’ became obscene in the context of the history of the Roman republic, it was frequently replaced by ‘faction’—or factio , to give an air of authenticity. It is the purpose of this paper to examine the occurrences of factio in writers of the republic and early principate in order to discover to what extent the usage of modern historians is justified by the sources. It will not be denied that there are numerous occasions when fa…
Tiberius
Robin Seager traces the life of Tiberius from his birth in Rome in 42 bc during the death throes of the Republic, through his military career and reign as Emperor, to his death in ad 37. Tiberius’ complex character is the key to understanding his reign. Challenging the common ancient view of Tiberius as a consummate hypocrite, Seager portrays him instead as a man whose virtues and beliefs were corrupted by power, who lost his grasp of reality as …
Cicero and the Word Popularis
It has by now become a commonplace among the historians of the republic that optimates and populares were not political parties in any modern sense. Nevertheless the ghost of the ‘popular party’ still lingers in subtle disguises, the most insidious of which is donned whenever populares is translated as ‘the populares ’, with all that the definite article may imply
Tiberius
J. Bleicken, Staatliche Ordnung und Freiheit in der römischen Republik. Kallmünz
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Tiberius
R. A. Bauman, Impietas in Principem (Münchener Beiträge, 67). München
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After the Peace of Nicias
Dissatisfaction with Thucydides' account of the years of confusion and inconclusive action that followed the Peace of Nicias has perhaps been too strong a stimulus to modern scholars. In their eagerness to repair the historian's omissions and illuminate his obscurities they have sometimes offered answers to questions of policy and motive that seem needlessly elaborate, complex, and farfetched, often basing their views of the foreign policy of cit…
CAQ Volume 27 issue 2 Cover and Fornt matter
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Populares’ in Livy and the Livian Tradition
This paper essays a reconstruction of Livy's attitude to and treatment of the major ‘popularis’ figures of the late republic, from Ti. Gracchus to Cinna and Carbo. The opening section examines four situations involving ‘popularis’ prototypes: the careers of Sp. Cassius, Sp. Maelius, and Manlius Capitolinus and the fall of Ap. Claudius the decemvir. It first considers Livy's use of what by his time had become standard themes in writing about ‘popu…
Pompey
M. Pani, Tendenze politiche della successions al principato di Augusto. Bari
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Notes on Aristophanes
Commentators offer no satisfactory explanation of why Cleon's satellite Theorus should be sitting on the ground. Van Leeuwen suggests ‘ut infra in convivio’, which seems far-fetched and at best premature, for, though it might suit the character of Theorus as flatterer, that character is not revealed by Alcibiades' speech impediment till 45. It may be that there is nothing to explain, that Theorus is sitting on the ground because there is nowhere …
The Freedom of the Greeks of Asia
In an earlier paper Christopher Tuplin and I attempted to establish the date and circumstances of the emergence of the concept of ‘the Greeks of Asia’ and the consequent appearance of ‘the freedom of the Greeks of Asia’ as a political slogan. It was there suggested that concept and slogan first crystallized shortly before the Peace of Antalcidas, and that the freedom of the Greeks of Asia first acquired its full force as a catchword when that fre…
Pompey the Great
Ammianus Marcellinus
Ammianus Marcellinus
The Corinthian War
THE CAUSES AND OUTBREAK OF WAR The outcome of the Peloponnesian War had left many of the victors discontented. Sparta had totally disregarded the wishes and interests of her allies and had pursued a policy of aggressive expansion in the Peloponnese, central and northern Greece and the Aegean which had at times seemed directed specifically against them. Though Lysander had been a prime exponent of this policy, it had not been his alone, and his te…
The rise of Pompey
THE REVOLT OF LEPIDUS, 78–77 b.c. Catulus and Lepidus quarrelled again as they left Sulla's funeral, and Lepidus soon stepped up his agitation. He promised to rescind Sulla's acts, to recall those who had been driven into exile and to restore their lands to those who had been dispossessed to make way for Sulla's veterans. He may also have succeeded in passing a law reviving distributions of cheap corn. Another issue promptly raised and constantly…
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