T Corey Brennan
Biographic Data
| ID | 1127371 |
|---|---|
| NAME | T Corey Brennan |
| GIVEN NAMES | T Corey |
| FAMILY NAME | Brennan |
| SIGNATURE | BRENNAN T C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1955 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Fasces
For an astounding two millennia—from the Etruscans of the seventh century bce, then through the Romans under all their forms of government, indeed down to the last Byzantine dynasty—political authorities used the device known as the “fasces” to induce respect as well as fear. This was a bundle of wooden rods and a single-bladed axe bound with leather straps—in essence, a mobile kit for punishment. In the Renaissance, some writers and artists foun…
American Academy in Rome
Sabina Augusta
This work aims to synthesize the textual and (massive) material evidence on the empress Sabina (born ca. 85–died ca. 137). The book traces the development of Sabina’s partnership with her husband, the emperor Hadrian (reigned 117–138), and shows the vital importance of the empress for Hadrian’s own aspirations. Sabina accumulated more public honors in Rome and the provinces than any imperial woman had enjoyed since the first empress, Augustus’ wi…
Hadrian’s Personality
Hadrian’s life was a string of controversial episodes, on which even our summary sources had to acknowledge variant traditions: Plotina’s alleged role in Hadrian’s adoption by Trajan, his execution of four consulars in 118, his relationship with Antinoös and the youth’s death in October 130. Add to that the nature of Hadrian’s marriage, his adoption of Lucius Aelius in 136 and Antoninus Pius in 138, the emperor’s death in July 138, and the ensuin…
Sabina’s Personal History
Trajan and Hadrian were natives of Hispania Baetica, sons of Roman senators, and cousins once removed. Trajan became Hadrian’s guardian, and around 100, Hadrian married Trajan’s grandniece Sabina. Nothing else of her first 30 years or so is recorded by the literary or (so it seems) inscriptional sources—even her whereabouts in August 117, when Hadrian learned of his adoption by Trajan in a dying act. This chapter reviews the few available chronol…
Hadrian’s Relationships
This chapter discusses four close relationships Hadrian developed beyond his marriage: with Trajan’s niece (Sabina’s mother), Matidia I; Trajan’s widow, Plotina; the Bithynian youth Antinoös; and the consular L. Ceionius Commodus, whom Hadrian adopted and publicly promoted as his heir (restyled as L. Aelius Caesar). It is argued that one common denominator is Hadrian’s deep—even excessive—emotional attachment to these women and men. Another is th…
Epilogue
This epilogue first traces a common thread running through modern understandings of Sabina, from Antonio de Guevara in the 16th century to romantic novelist Kate Quinn in the 21st: Hadrian treated his wife poorly, as the ancient literary sources unequivocally tell us. Attention to Sabina is rare in modern history, art, or literature. Most representations of the empress through time are ancillary appearances in biographical or novelistic treatment…
Trajan and the Imperial House
This chapter discusses how Trajan after his accession in 98 reconsolidated the imperial house. Trajan was from the Spanish province Baetica, his wife, Plotina, likely from Narbonese Gaul, thus dramatically enhancing the status of provincial elites in imperial Rome. The childless couple built spectacular foundations for a true dynasty through lavish formal honors to family members. Within a few years Trajan elevated his wife and his older sister, …
Sabina ‘Augusta’
This chapter surveys the textual and material evidence for Sabina’s first dozen years as empress. Following his accession in August 117, Hadrian apparently made no special effort to promote Sabina until her designation as Augusta in early 128. This grant preceded but was coordinated with the emperor’s naming as pater patriae (“father of the fatherland”) that same year; both honors were preliminaries to the couple’s five-year journey to the east. …
Badian, Ernst (1925–2011)
Ernst Badian (1925–2011) was a prolific historian of Greece and Rome who set demanding standards especially for the study of the Greco‐Persian world, Alexander the Great, and the Roman Republic.
Frank, Tenney (1876–1939)
Tenney Frank was a Latinist and Roman social and economic historian at Bryn Mawr College (1904–19) and Johns Hopkins University (1919–39) who was regarded as the foremost American classical scholar of his day.
Taylor, Lily Ross (1886–1969)
Lily Ross Taylor was a pioneering scholar of Latin literature and Roman history whose voluminous work has illuminated many aspects of Roman religion and the social, economic, administrative and political history of the Republic and early Empire.
Catulus, Quintus Lutatius, Liber de Consulatu
Cicero cites the noble Q. Lutatius Catulus (born by 147 BCE , suicide in 87) as a shining example of affability, erudition, and pure Latin diction, evidenced by his speeches and also his book “on his consulship and military exploits,” which he dedicated to his friend the poet Aulus Furius (Antias). For a work that comes to us only in a few paraphrased snippets (via Plutarch's Greek), Catulus' political autobiography offers little guesswork as to …
Embassies Gone Wrong
In the Greek inscriptions much is made of the willingness of such-and-such to undertake multiple embassies or to shoulder privately the expenses of state diplomacy. On the Roman side, discussion of embassies in legal texts such as the Digest and the Theodosian Code is very much focused on state diplomacy as a munus, a burdensome obligation for elites. The importance of the De legationibus , and other Constantinian compendia, such as De virtutibus…
Physiognomonica (review)
Reviewed by: Aristoteles: Physiognomonica T. Corey Brennan Sabine Vogt . Aristoteles: Physiognomonica. Aristoteles, Werke in Deutscher Übersetzung, 18.6. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1999. Pp. 499. €74.80. ISBN 3-05-003487-4. Physiognomists—the folks who claimed the ability to divine one's character or even fate from physical features—seem wholly to escape commemoration as such in the Greek and Latin epigraphic record. In that respect the practitione…
Aristoteles
The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Republic
The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Republic examines all aspects of Roman history and civilization from 509–49 BC. The key development of the republican period was Rome's rise from a small city to a wealthy metropolis and international capital of an extensive Mediterranean empire. These centuries produced the classic republican political system and the growth of a world empire. They also witnessed the disintegration of this system under the pre…
The Praetorship in the Roman Republic
The Constitution of the Roman Republic
Social Change in South-West Wales
Social Change in South-West Wales
Sabina ‘Augusta’
This chapter surveys the textual and material evidence for Sabina’s first dozen years as empress. Following his accession in August 117, Hadrian apparently made no special effort to promote Sabina until her designation as Augusta in early 128. This grant preceded but was coordinated with the emperor’s naming as pater patriae (“father of the fatherland”) that same year; both honors were preliminaries to the couple’s five-year journey to the east. …
Social Change in South-West Wales
The Constitution of the Roman Republic
The Praetorship in the Roman Republic
The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Republic
The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Republic examines all aspects of Roman history and civilization from 509–49 BC. The key development of the republican period was Rome's rise from a small city to a wealthy metropolis and international capital of an extensive Mediterranean empire. These centuries produced the classic republican political system and the growth of a world empire. They also witnessed the disintegration of this system under the pre…
Physiognomonica (review)
Reviewed by: Aristoteles: Physiognomonica T. Corey Brennan Sabine Vogt . Aristoteles: Physiognomonica. Aristoteles, Werke in Deutscher Übersetzung, 18.6. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1999. Pp. 499. €74.80. ISBN 3-05-003487-4. Physiognomists—the folks who claimed the ability to divine one's character or even fate from physical features—seem wholly to escape commemoration as such in the Greek and Latin epigraphic record. In that respect the practitione…
Aristoteles
Embassies Gone Wrong
In the Greek inscriptions much is made of the willingness of such-and-such to undertake multiple embassies or to shoulder privately the expenses of state diplomacy. On the Roman side, discussion of embassies in legal texts such as the Digest and the Theodosian Code is very much focused on state diplomacy as a munus, a burdensome obligation for elites. The importance of the De legationibus , and other Constantinian compendia, such as De virtutibus…
Catulus, Quintus Lutatius, Liber de Consulatu
Cicero cites the noble Q. Lutatius Catulus (born by 147 BCE , suicide in 87) as a shining example of affability, erudition, and pure Latin diction, evidenced by his speeches and also his book “on his consulship and military exploits,” which he dedicated to his friend the poet Aulus Furius (Antias). For a work that comes to us only in a few paraphrased snippets (via Plutarch's Greek), Catulus' political autobiography offers little guesswork as to …
Badian, Ernst (1925–2011)
Ernst Badian (1925–2011) was a prolific historian of Greece and Rome who set demanding standards especially for the study of the Greco‐Persian world, Alexander the Great, and the Roman Republic.
Frank, Tenney (1876–1939)
Tenney Frank was a Latinist and Roman social and economic historian at Bryn Mawr College (1904–19) and Johns Hopkins University (1919–39) who was regarded as the foremost American classical scholar of his day.
Taylor, Lily Ross (1886–1969)
Lily Ross Taylor was a pioneering scholar of Latin literature and Roman history whose voluminous work has illuminated many aspects of Roman religion and the social, economic, administrative and political history of the Republic and early Empire.
Sabina Augusta
This work aims to synthesize the textual and (massive) material evidence on the empress Sabina (born ca. 85–died ca. 137). The book traces the development of Sabina’s partnership with her husband, the emperor Hadrian (reigned 117–138), and shows the vital importance of the empress for Hadrian’s own aspirations. Sabina accumulated more public honors in Rome and the provinces than any imperial woman had enjoyed since the first empress, Augustus’ wi…
Hadrian’s Personality
Hadrian’s life was a string of controversial episodes, on which even our summary sources had to acknowledge variant traditions: Plotina’s alleged role in Hadrian’s adoption by Trajan, his execution of four consulars in 118, his relationship with Antinoös and the youth’s death in October 130. Add to that the nature of Hadrian’s marriage, his adoption of Lucius Aelius in 136 and Antoninus Pius in 138, the emperor’s death in July 138, and the ensuin…
Sabina’s Personal History
Trajan and Hadrian were natives of Hispania Baetica, sons of Roman senators, and cousins once removed. Trajan became Hadrian’s guardian, and around 100, Hadrian married Trajan’s grandniece Sabina. Nothing else of her first 30 years or so is recorded by the literary or (so it seems) inscriptional sources—even her whereabouts in August 117, when Hadrian learned of his adoption by Trajan in a dying act. This chapter reviews the few available chronol…
Hadrian’s Relationships
This chapter discusses four close relationships Hadrian developed beyond his marriage: with Trajan’s niece (Sabina’s mother), Matidia I; Trajan’s widow, Plotina; the Bithynian youth Antinoös; and the consular L. Ceionius Commodus, whom Hadrian adopted and publicly promoted as his heir (restyled as L. Aelius Caesar). It is argued that one common denominator is Hadrian’s deep—even excessive—emotional attachment to these women and men. Another is th…
Epilogue
This epilogue first traces a common thread running through modern understandings of Sabina, from Antonio de Guevara in the 16th century to romantic novelist Kate Quinn in the 21st: Hadrian treated his wife poorly, as the ancient literary sources unequivocally tell us. Attention to Sabina is rare in modern history, art, or literature. Most representations of the empress through time are ancillary appearances in biographical or novelistic treatment…
Trajan and the Imperial House
This chapter discusses how Trajan after his accession in 98 reconsolidated the imperial house. Trajan was from the Spanish province Baetica, his wife, Plotina, likely from Narbonese Gaul, thus dramatically enhancing the status of provincial elites in imperial Rome. The childless couple built spectacular foundations for a true dynasty through lavish formal honors to family members. Within a few years Trajan elevated his wife and his older sister, …
Sabina ‘Augusta’
This chapter surveys the textual and material evidence for Sabina’s first dozen years as empress. Following his accession in August 117, Hadrian apparently made no special effort to promote Sabina until her designation as Augusta in early 128. This grant preceded but was coordinated with the emperor’s naming as pater patriae (“father of the fatherland”) that same year; both honors were preliminaries to the couple’s five-year journey to the east. …
American Academy in Rome
The Fasces
For an astounding two millennia—from the Etruscans of the seventh century bce, then through the Romans under all their forms of government, indeed down to the last Byzantine dynasty—political authorities used the device known as the “fasces” to induce respect as well as fear. This was a bundle of wooden rods and a single-bladed axe bound with leather straps—in essence, a mobile kit for punishment. In the Renaissance, some writers and artists foun…
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