Jessica H Clark
Biographic Data
| ID | 5635596 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jessica H Clark |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jessica H |
| FAMILY NAME | Clark |
| SIGNATURE | CLARK J H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Closing Ranks
A tangled tale of military resistance and reform (342 bce) includes a new rule that a man not be a centurion after being a military tribune, inspired, Livy notes, by soldiers’ dislike of P. Salonius, who moved between those ranks. This article examines this episode as evidence for the development of Rome’s military and the increasingly separate orientation of centurions and military tribunes therein. The framing of the story adds to our knowledge…
Sempronius Asellio
Sempronius Asellio (ca. 160–90 bce ), Roman historian, witnessed the turbulent late second century in Rome and wrote about his own times.
Licinius Macer, Gaius
Gaius Licinius Macer (ca. 110–66 bce ) wrote an annalistic account of early Rome in Latin.
Sisenna, Lucius Cornelius
Lucius Cornelius Sisenna (ca. 119–67 bce ), Roman orator and magistrate, is best known for writing Histories in Latin.
Defeat and the Roman Republic
Sir Ronald Syme. Approaching the Roman Revolution
Reviewed by: Sir Ronald Syme. Approaching the Roman Revolution: Papers on Republican History ed. by Federico Santangelo Jessica H. Clark Federico Santangelo (ed.). Sir Ronald Syme. Approaching the Roman Revolution: Papers on Republican History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. xv, 428. $140.00. ISBN 978-0-19-876706-0. It may be that the appearance of “Syme 2016” will not occasion the same joy that would attend the rediscovery of the Boo…
Were Tribuni Militum First Elected in 362 or 311 BCE
Tribuni militum, junior officers in the Roman army, were originally selected by their commanders, but began to be elected by the people at some point prior to the second century BCE. Livy’s notice of their first being elected in 362 is generally accepted, but his reference to elections is inseparable from his account of the early life of T. Manlius Torquatus. Livy’s second notice concerning the election of tribunes, set in 311, rests on more a so…
Managing Defeat
This chapter examines patterns in Roman defeats, triumphs, and senatorial decision making in the approximately thirty years following Rome’s victory in the Second Punic War. It argues that the Roman Senate controlled the reception of magistrates’ military activities abroad in several ways: among these, it managed the receipt of information at Rome, it prorogued defeated commanders in order to permit the chance of re-engagement, it reined in aggre…
When in Rome
This chapter asks, why consider Roman defeats in the first place? After all, Rome’s victories dominate both ancient and modern representations of Roman culture and the military history of both the Republic and the Empire. By way of answer, the chapter introduces the scholarly background of the book, discusses the importance that defeats held for the Romans themselves, surveys Roman commemorative practices, and offers a case study (in the form of …
Bad Politics
This chapter examines Rome’s problematic military record during the closing decades of the second century B.C.E. and the increasing use of trials and other public venues both to call attention to defeats and to challenge senatorial and individual assertions of definitive success. In particular, it discusses the honors and triumphs accumulated by Rome’s leading families against foes who would shortly thereafter re-emerge as military threats, and c…
Conclusion
This final section summarizes the arguments and conclusions of the preceding five chapters. It offers an overarching assessment of their implications for understanding the place of defeat in Roman culture. It suggests that it was not defeats themselves but the reception thereof that proved such a problem for the Roman Senate and for the larger social and political climate of the later second century B.C.E.
Costs and Benefits
This chapter discusses Romans’ experience of the Second Punic War (218–202 B.C.E.). It first examines the major defeats that marked the opening years of the war (at the Ticinus, the Trebia, Lake Trasimene, and, most famously, Cannae) and the ways in which Romans (the Roman Senate, collectively, and individual senators in historiographic terms) responded to each of these losses. The chapter then explores the strategies, both in the field, and, as …
Roman Optimism Before Cannae
This article examines the consequences of Justus Lipsius’ emendation of Livy 22.10.6, the final sentence of the ver sacrum vowed after the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene in 217 bce . After a brief discussion of the historical context of the vow, we turn to the text as transmitted by the earliest manuscript, the fifth-century Codex Puteanus . Lipsius rendered the mss. anteidea as antidea , a hapax legomenon . Subsequent editors experimented with a…
Triumph in Defeat
Sisenna, Lucius Cornelius
Lucius Cornelius Sisenna (ca. 119–67 BCE ), Roman orator and magistrate, is best known for writing Histories in Latin.
Sempronius Asellio
Sempronius Asellio (ca. 160–90 BCE ), Roman historian, witnessed the turbulent late second century in Rome and wrote about his own times.
Licinius Macer, Gaius
Gaius Licinius Macer (ca. 110–66 BCE ) wrote an annalistic account of early Rome in Latin.
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Sisenna, Lucius Cornelius
Lucius Cornelius Sisenna (ca. 119–67 BCE ), Roman orator and magistrate, is best known for writing Histories in Latin.
Sempronius Asellio
Sempronius Asellio (ca. 160–90 BCE ), Roman historian, witnessed the turbulent late second century in Rome and wrote about his own times.
Licinius Macer, Gaius
Gaius Licinius Macer (ca. 110–66 BCE ) wrote an annalistic account of early Rome in Latin.
Managing Defeat
This chapter examines patterns in Roman defeats, triumphs, and senatorial decision making in the approximately thirty years following Rome’s victory in the Second Punic War. It argues that the Roman Senate controlled the reception of magistrates’ military activities abroad in several ways: among these, it managed the receipt of information at Rome, it prorogued defeated commanders in order to permit the chance of re-engagement, it reined in aggre…
When in Rome
This chapter asks, why consider Roman defeats in the first place? After all, Rome’s victories dominate both ancient and modern representations of Roman culture and the military history of both the Republic and the Empire. By way of answer, the chapter introduces the scholarly background of the book, discusses the importance that defeats held for the Romans themselves, surveys Roman commemorative practices, and offers a case study (in the form of …
Bad Politics
This chapter examines Rome’s problematic military record during the closing decades of the second century B.C.E. and the increasing use of trials and other public venues both to call attention to defeats and to challenge senatorial and individual assertions of definitive success. In particular, it discusses the honors and triumphs accumulated by Rome’s leading families against foes who would shortly thereafter re-emerge as military threats, and c…
Conclusion
This final section summarizes the arguments and conclusions of the preceding five chapters. It offers an overarching assessment of their implications for understanding the place of defeat in Roman culture. It suggests that it was not defeats themselves but the reception thereof that proved such a problem for the Roman Senate and for the larger social and political climate of the later second century B.C.E.
Costs and Benefits
This chapter discusses Romans’ experience of the Second Punic War (218–202 B.C.E.). It first examines the major defeats that marked the opening years of the war (at the Ticinus, the Trebia, Lake Trasimene, and, most famously, Cannae) and the ways in which Romans (the Roman Senate, collectively, and individual senators in historiographic terms) responded to each of these losses. The chapter then explores the strategies, both in the field, and, as …
Roman Optimism Before Cannae
This article examines the consequences of Justus Lipsius’ emendation of Livy 22.10.6, the final sentence of the ver sacrum vowed after the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene in 217 bce . After a brief discussion of the historical context of the vow, we turn to the text as transmitted by the earliest manuscript, the fifth-century Codex Puteanus . Lipsius rendered the mss. anteidea as antidea , a hapax legomenon . Subsequent editors experimented with a…
Triumph in Defeat
Were Tribuni Militum First Elected in 362 or 311 BCE
Tribuni militum, junior officers in the Roman army, were originally selected by their commanders, but began to be elected by the people at some point prior to the second century BCE. Livy’s notice of their first being elected in 362 is generally accepted, but his reference to elections is inseparable from his account of the early life of T. Manlius Torquatus. Livy’s second notice concerning the election of tribunes, set in 311, rests on more a so…
Defeat and the Roman Republic
Sir Ronald Syme. Approaching the Roman Revolution
Reviewed by: Sir Ronald Syme. Approaching the Roman Revolution: Papers on Republican History ed. by Federico Santangelo Jessica H. Clark Federico Santangelo (ed.). Sir Ronald Syme. Approaching the Roman Revolution: Papers on Republican History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. xv, 428. $140.00. ISBN 978-0-19-876706-0. It may be that the appearance of “Syme 2016” will not occasion the same joy that would attend the rediscovery of the Boo…
Licinius Macer, Gaius
Gaius Licinius Macer (ca. 110–66 bce ) wrote an annalistic account of early Rome in Latin.
Sisenna, Lucius Cornelius
Lucius Cornelius Sisenna (ca. 119–67 bce ), Roman orator and magistrate, is best known for writing Histories in Latin.
Sempronius Asellio
Sempronius Asellio (ca. 160–90 bce ), Roman historian, witnessed the turbulent late second century in Rome and wrote about his own times.
Closing Ranks
A tangled tale of military resistance and reform (342 bce) includes a new rule that a man not be a centurion after being a military tribune, inspired, Livy notes, by soldiers’ dislike of P. Salonius, who moved between those ranks. This article examines this episode as evidence for the development of Rome’s military and the increasingly separate orientation of centurions and military tribunes therein. The framing of the story adds to our knowledge…
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