Chris Gillespie
Biographic Data
| ID | 247399 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chris Gillespie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chris |
| FAMILY NAME | Gillespie |
| SIGNATURE | GILLESPIE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research Department of Veterans Affairs Bedford Massachusetts USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3833-7675 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Women's Collective Action in Tacitus' Annals
This article analyzes female collective action as embodied public performance in two episodes within Tacitus' Annals : the trial of Libo Drusus in 16 ce, and the trial of Aemilia Lepida four years later. Both defendants are accompanied by entourages of leading women, and their narratives provide vehicles for Tacitus' observations on the demise of the Roman elite and traditional republican institutions and customs. Reading the actions of the women…
The Ruler’s House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome by Harriet Fertik
Reviewed by: The Ruler’s House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome by Harriet Fertik Caitlin Gillespie Harriet Fertik. The Ruler’s House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. Pp. x, 241. $54.95. ISBN 978-1-4214-3289-2. In The Ruler’s House, Fertik analyzes the ways in which the emperor’s house contributed to questions of power, privacy, and authority in Julio-Claudi…
Agrippina the Elder and the Memory of Augustus in Tacitus’ Annals
This article argues that Tacitus’ presentation of the tense relationship between Tiberius and Agrippina the Elder is predicated upon differing interpretations of Augustus’ memory. While Agrippina presents herself as the living imago Augusti and the populace praises her blood connection to the first princeps, Tiberius denies that her ancestry should grant her authority. This argument allows insight into the mnemonic function of women in the Annals…
Wife, Queen, Roman?
Chapter 2 investigates Boudica’s status as the wife of a client king and the lifestyle of her Iceni. Dio labels Boudica as a queen, using a Roman term with political implications that may be inaccurate. Queens are fearsome and anxiety-producing for the Romans, as seen by the examples of Tullia and Cleopatra. Cartimandua, queen of the Brigantes in Britain and client queen of Rome, is characterized as a moral foil to Boudica in our texts. Cracks in…
The Wolf and the Hare
Chapter 7 places Boudica’s revolt in the context of other native revolts against Rome in order to demonstrate both the similarities between provincial uprisings and the uniqueness of Boudica as a female leader. While Dio connects Boudica to the revolt in Dalmatia in AD 6–9, Tacitus aligns Boudica with Arminius and his destruction of Varus and his three Roman legions in AD 9. Dio uses similar terms in his discussion of the Dalmatian revolt and tha…
Dux Femina
Chapter 5 analyzes Tacitus’s image of Boudica as a warrior woman and considers the challenges she poses to Roman conceptions of masculinity. Whereas other women and wives become observers, placed on the outskirts of the battlefield, Boudica is a commander woman (dux femina), comparable to Vergil’s Dido. Several models and antimodels emerge from Roman history and myth to color a Roman reader’s interpretation of Boudica as a dux femina, including C…
We Learned These Things from the Romans
Chapter 4 analyzes Dio’s representation of Boudica as an emblem of barbarian strength and fortitude who criticizes the misplaced values of the Romans. Boudica’s fearsome visage opens the conversation. Her appearance has parallels in Diodorus Siculus’s description of the Gauls, and material evidence of East Anglia provides support for her wearing a gold torc (a type of metal band worn around the neck). Images of the personified Britannia and other…
Family and Freedom
Chapter 3 addresses Tacitus’s image of Boudica as a mother who leads a revolt through appealing to family values and attaching them to the ideal of freedom. Boudica’s cry for freedom is connected with her motherhood and the theme of chastity. Tacitus draws upon Livy’s Brutus, Lucretia, and others in order to align these two concepts and to contrast Boudica’s values of chastity and parenthood with the violence, licentiousness, and greed of the Rom…
I Call Upon You, Andraste
Chapter 6 turns to Boudica as a religious figure, examining her role in divination and ritual. Boudica’s revolt has been interpreted as a reaction against the destruction of the center of Druidic worship at Mona (Anglesey). Dio’s Boudica is involved in two ritualistic moments during the revolt. As a diviner, she deserves praise and respect, like Livy’s Tanaquil or Tacitus’s Veleda. Her patron goddess, Andraste or Andate, is associated with victor…
Boudica: Warrior woman of Roman Britain
In AD 60/61, Rome almost lost the province of Britain to a woman. Boudica, wife of the client king Prasutagus, fomented a rebellion that proved catastrophic for Camulodunum (Colchester), Londinium (London), and Verulamium (St Albans), destroyed part of a Roman legion, and caused the deaths of an untold number of veterans, families, soldiers, and Britons. Yet with one decisive defeat, her vision of freedom was destroyed, and the Iceni never rose a…
Roman Literary Cultures: Domestic Politics, Revolutionary Poetics, Civic Spectacle ed. by Alison Keith, Jonathan Edmondson
Reviewed by: Roman Literary Cultures: Domestic Politics, Revolutionary Poetics, Civic Spectacle ed. by Alison Keith, Jonathan Edmondson Caitlin Gillespie Alison Keith and Jonathan Edmondson (eds.). Roman Literary Cultures: Domestic Politics, Revolutionary Poetics, Civic Spectacle. Phoenix Supplementary Volumes, 55. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016. Pp. xxiv, 336. $75.00. ISBN 978-1-4426-2967-7. Keith and Edmondson’s festschrift for the …
Provincial Soldiers and Imperial Stability in the Histories of Tacitus by Jonathan Master
Reviewed by: Provincial Soldiers and Imperial Stability in the Histories of Tacitus by Jonathan Master Caitlin Gillespie Jonathan Master. Provincial Soldiers and Imperial Stability in the Histories of Tacitus. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016. Pp. ix, 238. $70.00. ISBN 978-0-472-11983-7. The tendency of history to repeat itself can be comforting as well as confounding. In his monograph, Master focuses on the didactic nature of Tacitu…
The Wolf and the Hare: Boudica’s Political Bodies in Tacitus and Dio
This article analyzes how Tacitus and Dio use the concept of exemplarity in their narratives of Boudica’s revolt in order to present the queen as a complex model of female leadership. Tacitus’ Boudica assimilates herself to positive Roman models from Livy; Dio’s Boudica separates herself from Herodotean anti-models, as well as from the imperial women of Rome. In her condemnation of Nero, Dio’s Boudica criticizes the populace for succumbing to the…
The risk experience: The Social Effects of Health Screening and the Emergence of a Proto-Illness
Those who undergo health screening often experience physical and emotional effects as a result of the screening process. However, the effects of health screening go beyond these physical and mental complications, often having profound social effects for those who are screened. This study explores the social implications of health screening for people who undergo it and are designated as being at risk for potential disease. Through a qualitative a…
Agrippina the Younger: Tacitus’ Unicum Exemplum
Nero's gift is freighted with symbolic meaning. His choice of ornamentation owned and worn by past imperial women indicates that his mother should wear these objects in visible imitation of her forebears. This chapter explores the value of the past, as communicated by objects such as Nero's gifts. Tacitus' Nero manipulates physical objects connected to the imperial past as tools to convey a pointed message about imperial authority to his mother; …
Poppaea Venus and the Ptolemaic Queens: An Alternative Biography
This article examines the presentation of Nero’s wife Poppaea in the Oxyrhynchus papyrus fragment recounting her apotheosis (P.Oxy. LXXVII 5105). The poem arguably connects Poppaea to several Ptolemaic queens through characterizing Poppaea as a devoted wife, aligned with Aphrodite. The image of Poppaea as representative of a marriage ideal is largely absent from more familiar literary accounts. Through reconfiguring Poppaea as the Egyptianised wi…
The experience of risk as ‘measured vulnerability: Health Screening and Lay Uses of Numerical Risk
As clinical and epidemiological research turns increasingly to statistical probabilities in the identification and management of disease, numerous risk factors have emerged that are applied to individual health surveillance. However, the application of statistical risk is interpreted differently by lay persons from the way it is by public health or medical professionals. This paper examines the experience of being designated as at risk of a serio…
The experience of risk as ‘measured vulnerability: Health Screening and Lay Uses of Numerical Risk
As clinical and epidemiological research turns increasingly to statistical probabilities in the identification and management of disease, numerous risk factors have emerged that are applied to individual health surveillance. However, the application of statistical risk is interpreted differently by lay persons from the way it is by public health or medical professionals. This paper examines the experience of being designated as at risk of a serio…
The risk experience: The Social Effects of Health Screening and the Emergence of a Proto-Illness
Those who undergo health screening often experience physical and emotional effects as a result of the screening process. However, the effects of health screening go beyond these physical and mental complications, often having profound social effects for those who are screened. This study explores the social implications of health screening for people who undergo it and are designated as being at risk for potential disease. Through a qualitative a…
Boudica: Warrior woman of Roman Britain
In AD 60/61, Rome almost lost the province of Britain to a woman. Boudica, wife of the client king Prasutagus, fomented a rebellion that proved catastrophic for Camulodunum (Colchester), Londinium (London), and Verulamium (St Albans), destroyed part of a Roman legion, and caused the deaths of an untold number of veterans, families, soldiers, and Britons. Yet with one decisive defeat, her vision of freedom was destroyed, and the Iceni never rose a…
Agrippina the Elder and the Memory of Augustus in Tacitus’ Annals
This article argues that Tacitus’ presentation of the tense relationship between Tiberius and Agrippina the Elder is predicated upon differing interpretations of Augustus’ memory. While Agrippina presents herself as the living imago Augusti and the populace praises her blood connection to the first princeps, Tiberius denies that her ancestry should grant her authority. This argument allows insight into the mnemonic function of women in the Annals…
Poppaea Venus and the Ptolemaic Queens: An Alternative Biography
This article examines the presentation of Nero’s wife Poppaea in the Oxyrhynchus papyrus fragment recounting her apotheosis (P.Oxy. LXXVII 5105). The poem arguably connects Poppaea to several Ptolemaic queens through characterizing Poppaea as a devoted wife, aligned with Aphrodite. The image of Poppaea as representative of a marriage ideal is largely absent from more familiar literary accounts. Through reconfiguring Poppaea as the Egyptianised wi…
The experience of risk as ‘measured vulnerability: Health Screening and Lay Uses of Numerical Risk
As clinical and epidemiological research turns increasingly to statistical probabilities in the identification and management of disease, numerous risk factors have emerged that are applied to individual health surveillance. However, the application of statistical risk is interpreted differently by lay persons from the way it is by public health or medical professionals. This paper examines the experience of being designated as at risk of a serio…
Agrippina the Younger: Tacitus’ Unicum Exemplum
Nero's gift is freighted with symbolic meaning. His choice of ornamentation owned and worn by past imperial women indicates that his mother should wear these objects in visible imitation of her forebears. This chapter explores the value of the past, as communicated by objects such as Nero's gifts. Tacitus' Nero manipulates physical objects connected to the imperial past as tools to convey a pointed message about imperial authority to his mother; …
Poppaea Venus and the Ptolemaic Queens: An Alternative Biography
This article examines the presentation of Nero’s wife Poppaea in the Oxyrhynchus papyrus fragment recounting her apotheosis (P.Oxy. LXXVII 5105). The poem arguably connects Poppaea to several Ptolemaic queens through characterizing Poppaea as a devoted wife, aligned with Aphrodite. The image of Poppaea as representative of a marriage ideal is largely absent from more familiar literary accounts. Through reconfiguring Poppaea as the Egyptianised wi…
The Wolf and the Hare: Boudica’s Political Bodies in Tacitus and Dio
This article analyzes how Tacitus and Dio use the concept of exemplarity in their narratives of Boudica’s revolt in order to present the queen as a complex model of female leadership. Tacitus’ Boudica assimilates herself to positive Roman models from Livy; Dio’s Boudica separates herself from Herodotean anti-models, as well as from the imperial women of Rome. In her condemnation of Nero, Dio’s Boudica criticizes the populace for succumbing to the…
The risk experience: The Social Effects of Health Screening and the Emergence of a Proto-Illness
Those who undergo health screening often experience physical and emotional effects as a result of the screening process. However, the effects of health screening go beyond these physical and mental complications, often having profound social effects for those who are screened. This study explores the social implications of health screening for people who undergo it and are designated as being at risk for potential disease. Through a qualitative a…
Roman Literary Cultures: Domestic Politics, Revolutionary Poetics, Civic Spectacle ed. by Alison Keith, Jonathan Edmondson
Reviewed by: Roman Literary Cultures: Domestic Politics, Revolutionary Poetics, Civic Spectacle ed. by Alison Keith, Jonathan Edmondson Caitlin Gillespie Alison Keith and Jonathan Edmondson (eds.). Roman Literary Cultures: Domestic Politics, Revolutionary Poetics, Civic Spectacle. Phoenix Supplementary Volumes, 55. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016. Pp. xxiv, 336. $75.00. ISBN 978-1-4426-2967-7. Keith and Edmondson’s festschrift for the …
Provincial Soldiers and Imperial Stability in the Histories of Tacitus by Jonathan Master
Reviewed by: Provincial Soldiers and Imperial Stability in the Histories of Tacitus by Jonathan Master Caitlin Gillespie Jonathan Master. Provincial Soldiers and Imperial Stability in the Histories of Tacitus. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016. Pp. ix, 238. $70.00. ISBN 978-0-472-11983-7. The tendency of history to repeat itself can be comforting as well as confounding. In his monograph, Master focuses on the didactic nature of Tacitu…
Wife, Queen, Roman?
Chapter 2 investigates Boudica’s status as the wife of a client king and the lifestyle of her Iceni. Dio labels Boudica as a queen, using a Roman term with political implications that may be inaccurate. Queens are fearsome and anxiety-producing for the Romans, as seen by the examples of Tullia and Cleopatra. Cartimandua, queen of the Brigantes in Britain and client queen of Rome, is characterized as a moral foil to Boudica in our texts. Cracks in…
The Wolf and the Hare
Chapter 7 places Boudica’s revolt in the context of other native revolts against Rome in order to demonstrate both the similarities between provincial uprisings and the uniqueness of Boudica as a female leader. While Dio connects Boudica to the revolt in Dalmatia in AD 6–9, Tacitus aligns Boudica with Arminius and his destruction of Varus and his three Roman legions in AD 9. Dio uses similar terms in his discussion of the Dalmatian revolt and tha…
Dux Femina
Chapter 5 analyzes Tacitus’s image of Boudica as a warrior woman and considers the challenges she poses to Roman conceptions of masculinity. Whereas other women and wives become observers, placed on the outskirts of the battlefield, Boudica is a commander woman (dux femina), comparable to Vergil’s Dido. Several models and antimodels emerge from Roman history and myth to color a Roman reader’s interpretation of Boudica as a dux femina, including C…
We Learned These Things from the Romans
Chapter 4 analyzes Dio’s representation of Boudica as an emblem of barbarian strength and fortitude who criticizes the misplaced values of the Romans. Boudica’s fearsome visage opens the conversation. Her appearance has parallels in Diodorus Siculus’s description of the Gauls, and material evidence of East Anglia provides support for her wearing a gold torc (a type of metal band worn around the neck). Images of the personified Britannia and other…
Family and Freedom
Chapter 3 addresses Tacitus’s image of Boudica as a mother who leads a revolt through appealing to family values and attaching them to the ideal of freedom. Boudica’s cry for freedom is connected with her motherhood and the theme of chastity. Tacitus draws upon Livy’s Brutus, Lucretia, and others in order to align these two concepts and to contrast Boudica’s values of chastity and parenthood with the violence, licentiousness, and greed of the Rom…
I Call Upon You, Andraste
Chapter 6 turns to Boudica as a religious figure, examining her role in divination and ritual. Boudica’s revolt has been interpreted as a reaction against the destruction of the center of Druidic worship at Mona (Anglesey). Dio’s Boudica is involved in two ritualistic moments during the revolt. As a diviner, she deserves praise and respect, like Livy’s Tanaquil or Tacitus’s Veleda. Her patron goddess, Andraste or Andate, is associated with victor…
Boudica: Warrior woman of Roman Britain
In AD 60/61, Rome almost lost the province of Britain to a woman. Boudica, wife of the client king Prasutagus, fomented a rebellion that proved catastrophic for Camulodunum (Colchester), Londinium (London), and Verulamium (St Albans), destroyed part of a Roman legion, and caused the deaths of an untold number of veterans, families, soldiers, and Britons. Yet with one decisive defeat, her vision of freedom was destroyed, and the Iceni never rose a…
The Ruler’s House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome by Harriet Fertik
Reviewed by: The Ruler’s House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome by Harriet Fertik Caitlin Gillespie Harriet Fertik. The Ruler’s House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. Pp. x, 241. $54.95. ISBN 978-1-4214-3289-2. In The Ruler’s House, Fertik analyzes the ways in which the emperor’s house contributed to questions of power, privacy, and authority in Julio-Claudi…
Agrippina the Elder and the Memory of Augustus in Tacitus’ Annals
This article argues that Tacitus’ presentation of the tense relationship between Tiberius and Agrippina the Elder is predicated upon differing interpretations of Augustus’ memory. While Agrippina presents herself as the living imago Augusti and the populace praises her blood connection to the first princeps, Tiberius denies that her ancestry should grant her authority. This argument allows insight into the mnemonic function of women in the Annals…
Women's Collective Action in Tacitus' Annals
This article analyzes female collective action as embodied public performance in two episodes within Tacitus' Annals : the trial of Libo Drusus in 16 ce, and the trial of Aemilia Lepida four years later. Both defendants are accompanied by entourages of leading women, and their narratives provide vehicles for Tacitus' observations on the demise of the Roman elite and traditional republican institutions and customs. Reading the actions of the women…
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