Simon Malloch

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Biography

I took my undergraduate degree from the University of Western Australia and my doctorate from St John's College in the University of Cambridge. Before joining the Department in Nottingham I held academic appointments in Dublin, Munich, and Cambridge. Since my appointment I have held a visiting appointment in Oxford (All Souls), have been elected a member of the Faculty of Archaeology, History, and Letters at the British School at Rome, and also serve on the steering committee of the new History of Law and Governance Centre (based in the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, UoN). I am a founding editor of the monograph series Trends in Classics: Key Perspectives on Classical Research published by De Gruyter. I am next on research leave in Spring 2024/25.

Expertise Summary

My research interests lie at the intersection between the literature and history of the late Roman Republic and early Principate, and they extend to constitutional history, the classical tradition, and the history of scholarship.

I am available to give school and public talks in these areas. My latest school talk asked 'How did the Romans respond to crisis?'. I discussed health and political crises of the Republic and Principate.

Teaching Summary

I teach a wide range of topics at all levels in the language, literature, and history of ancient Rome. These have included:

Latin texts of the late Roman Republic and Principate; Latin language for all levels, including beginners.

The history of the Roman Republic and Principate, such as the transition from Republic to Principate under Augustus, and the Roman empire in the East (from Pyrrhus to Julian).

Roman historiography, through the works of Tacitus and texts such as the Tabula Lugdunensis (Claudius' speech on the admission of the Gauls to the senate of Rome).

The history of classical scholarship and the classical tradition, such as Gibbon's Decline and Fall, commentary as a genre of scholarship, and classical education in Germany and Britain since the 19th century.

I am interested in supervising graduate students in these areas.

Selected Publications

• MALLOCH, S.J.V., ed., 2020. The Tabula Lugdunensis: a critical edition with a translation and commentary. Cambridge University Press.
• MALLOCH, S.J.V., 2015. Frontinus and Domitian: the politics of the Strategemata Chiron. 45, 77-100
• MALLOCH, S.J.V., ed., 2013. Edition with introduction and commentary of Tacitus' Annals, book 11. The annals of Tacitus. Book 11 Cambridge classical texts and commentaries, v. 51 Cambridge University Press.
• MALLOCH, S.J.V., 2022. The return of the king? Tacitus on the principate of Augustus Hermes. 150(1), 82-100

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• MALLOCH, S.J.V., 2023. Tacitus and the Speech of Claudius on the Tabula Lugdunensis Lampas. 56, 319-31
• MALLOCH, S.J.V., 2022. The return of the king? Tacitus on the principate of Augustus Hermes. 150(1), 82-100
• MALLOCH, S.J.V., 2022. A probable allusion to Edward Gibbon in a letter of Hugh Trevor-Roper Notes and Queries. 69, 263-4
• MALLOCH, S.J.V., 2022. Spanish translation of my review of M. Beard, Twelve Caesars: images of power from the ancient world to the modern (Princeton, 2021), originally published in the Literary Review, September 2021 (500), 26-7 Santiago: ideas, critica, debate.
• MALLOCH, S.J.V., 2021. Review of K. Shannon-Henderson, Religion and Memory in Tacitus' Annals (Oxford, 2019) Gnomon. 93, 74-6
• MALLOCH, S.J.V., 2021. Did he really fiddle? Review of A. Barrett, Rome is Burning: Nero and the Fire that ended a Dynasty (Princeton, 2020) Literary Review. February 2021(493), 36-7
• MALLOCH, S.J.V., 2021. Broken G in Beneventan script: a case study based on the second Medicean of Tacitus (Florence, Bibliotheca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 68.2) Scriptorium. 75, 123-31
• MALLOCH, S.J.V., 2021. Review of M. Beard, Twelve Caesars: images of power from the ancient world to the modern (Princeton, 2021) Literary Review. September 2021(500), 26-7
• MALLOCH, S.J.V., ed., 2020. The Tabula Lugdunensis: a critical edition with a translation and commentary. Cambridge University Press.
• MALLOCH, S.J.V., 2019. Review of Patricia J. Osmond and Robert W. Ulery, Edmund Bolton, Averrunci or the Skowrers: Ponderous and new considerations upon the first six books of the 'Annals' of Cornelius Tacitus concerning Tiberius Caesar (Genoa, Biblioteca Durazzo, MS. A IV 5). Medieval and Renaissance texts and studies, 508. (Tempe, AZ, 2017) Bryn Mawr Classical Review. 2019.02.19,
• MALLOCH, S.J.V., 2018. The tradition about the mons Caelius Hermes. 146, 454-469
• MALLOCH, S.J.V., 2016. Acidalius on Tacitus. In: HUNTER, R. and OAKLEY, S. P., eds., Latin literature and its transmission. C.U.P.
• MALLOCH, S.J.V., 2016. The Classicist. In: WORDEN, B., ed., Hugh Trevor-Roper: the historian I. B. Tauris.
• MALLOCH, S.J.V., 2015. Frontinus and Domitian: the politics of the Strategemata Chiron. 45, 77-100
• MALLOCH, S.J.V., 2015. The classicism of Hugh Trevor-Roper Cambridge Classical Journal. 61, 29-61
• 2015. Review of A.Goldsworthy, Augustus: First Emperor of Rome (London, 2013) Bryn Mawr Classical Review. 2015.05.39,
• MALLOCH, S.J.V., 2015. Review of J.Bleicken, Augustus: the biography (London, 2015) The Literary Review. 437, 37-38
• MALLOCH, S.J.V., 2014. The fragments of the Roman historians: conventions and opportunities Histos Working Papers.
• MALLOCH, S.J.V., 2013. Review of C.Smith and A.Powell, The Lost Memoirs of Augustus and the Development of Roman Autobiography (Swansea, 2009) Classical Review. 63,
• MALLOCH, S.J.V., ed., 2013. Edition with introduction and commentary of Tacitus' Annals, book 11. The annals of Tacitus. Book 11 Cambridge classical texts and commentaries, v. 51 Cambridge University Press.
• MALLOCH, S.J.V., 2013. Review of P.G. Naiditch, The Library of Richard Porson (Xlibris, 2011) The Library. 7.14, 476-78
• MALLOCH, S.J.V., 2013. Review of C. Kraus et al., Ancient Historiography and Its Contexts: Studies in Honour of A. J. Woodman (Oxford, 2010) Classical World. 106, 696-98
• MALLOCH, S.J.V., 2013. Review of C.Higgins, Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman Britain (London, 2013) The Literary Review. 11-13
• MALLOCH, S.J.V., 2012. Review of J. Osgood, Claudius Caesar: Image and Power in the Early Roman Empire (Cambridge, 2010) Gnomon. 84, 660-61
• MALLOCH, S.J.V., 2012. Review of G. Woolf, Rome: an empire's story (Oxford, 2012) The Literary Review. June, pp.22-23
• MALLOCH, S.J.V., 2012. Review of S. O'Grady, And man created god: kings, cults, and conquests at the time of Jesus (London, 2012) The Literary Review. October, pp.19-20
• MALLOCH, S.J.V., 2011. Review of R. Mellor, Tacitus' Annals (Oxford, 2010) Times Literary Supplement. February 18,
• MALLOCH, S.J.V., 2010. Review of D. Sailor, Writing and Empire in Tacitus (Cambridge, 2010) Classical World. 104, 126-27
• MALLOCH, S.J.V., 2010. Review of J.Richardson, The Language of empire (Cambridge, 2009) Classical World. 103, 559-60
• MALLOCH, S.J.V., 2010. pompabilis, pompabiliter, pompabilitas, pompalis, pompaliter, pompalitas, pompatilis, pompatus, pompeuticus, pompicus, pompifero, pompo, pontificius, popularitas At: Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, vol.X,1 fasc.XVII pomifer–porrus
• MALLOCH, S.J.V., 2009. Gaius' persecution of the nobiles: a study in the politics of memory and nomenclature Athenaeum (Pavia, Italy). 97(2), 489-506
• MALLOCH, S.J.V., 2009. 'Hamlet' without the prince? The Claudian 'Annals'. In: WOODMAN, A.J., ed., The Cambridge companion to Tacitus Cambridge University Press. 116-126
• MALLOCH, S.J.V., 2008. Scriba Pontificius (Livy 22. 57. 3 and SHA Opil. 7. 2) Philologus. 152, 155-58
• MALLOCH, S.J.V., 2008. pullo At: Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, vol.X,2 fasc.XVI pubertus-pulso
• MALLOCH, S.J.V., 2007. Review of S. Timpanaro, The Genesis of Lachmann`s Method. Ed. and Trans. G. W. Most (Chicago, 2005) Classical World. 101, 110-111
• MALLOCH, S.J.V., 2006. Review of A. R. Birley, The Roman Government of Britain (Oxford, 2005) Bryn Mawr Classical Review.
• MALLOCH, S.J.V., 2005. Review of A. A. Barrett, Livia: First Lady of Imperial Rome (New Haven and London, 2002) Classical World. 98, 218-219
• MALLOCH, S.J.V., 2005. Review of J. C. Yardley, Justin and Pompeius Trogus: A Study of the Language of Justin’s Epitome of Trogus (Toronto, 2003) Classical World. 99, 91-92
• MALLOCH, S.J.V., 2005. The Date of Corbulo’s Campaigns in Lower Germany Museum Helveticum. 62, 76-83
• MALLOCH, S.J.V., 2004. The Death of Ptolemy of Mauretania Historia. 53, 38-45
• MALLOCH, S.J.V., 2004. The End of the Rhine Mutiny in Tacitus, Suetonius, and Dio Classical Quarterly. 54, 198-210
• MALLOCH, S.J.V., 2004. Review of W. Eck, The Age of Augustus (Oxford, 2003) Classical Review. 54, 175-176
• MALLOCH, S.J.V., 2004. Review of D. Womersley, Gibbon and the ‘Watchmen of the Holy City’: The Historian and his Reputation 1776-1815 (Oxford, 2002) Prudentia. 36, 81-84
• MALLOCH, S.J.V., 2001. Gaius' Bridge at Baiae and Alexander-imitatio Classical Quarterly. 51, 206-17
• MALLOCH, S.J.V., 2001. Gaius on the Channel Coast Classical Quarterly. 51, 551-56
• MALLOCH, S.J.V, 2001. Who were the Rudes Nepotes at Tac. Ann. 4. 8. 3? Classical Quarterly. 51, 628-31
• MALLOCH, S.J.V, Tacitus: opera maiora. In: J. STOVER, ed., The Oxford guide to the transmission of the Latin classics. Oxford University Press. (In Press.)
• MALLOCH, S.J.V., The asyndeton bimembre at Tacitus Annals 5.7.1 Rheinisches Museum für Philologie. (In Press.)