James Chlup

I am a Roman historian specialising in literary evidence for the Middle and Latin Roman Republic. I have published articles and book chapters on Livy, Plutarch, Onasander, Frontinus and John Buchan. My major project is a commentary on Plutarch's Life of Crassus, but I am also preparing articles on Frontinus, Appian, Plutarch and Roman Decapitaton. My teaching entails a diverse range of courses from Greek and Roman mythology to ancient history to Latin language at the beginner's and advanced levels.

• PhD (Latin), University of Durham
• MA (Ancient History), Dalhousie University
• BA (Honours) (Classics), University of New Brunswick

Research interests

• Roman history, especially the Middle and Late Republic (c. 250-30 BCE)
• Greek and Latin historiography and biography
• Greek and Roman military manuals

• 2022. 'A Life in Pieces: Plutarch, Crassus 12.1-16.8', in J. Beneker, C. Cooper, N. Humble, and F. D. Titchener, eds., "Plutarch's Unexpected Silences: Suppression and Selection in the Lives and Moralia." Brill Academic. 138-150.
• 2020. (co-edited with C. Whately). "Greek and Roman Military Manuals: Genre and History." Routledge.
• 2020. 'Defeat as Stratagem: Cannae in Frontinus', in J. T. Chlup and C. Whately, eds., "Greek and Roman Military Manuals: Genre and History." Routledge. 183-198.
• 2018. "Collective Memory, Authorial Authority, and Civil War: Caesar on Dyrrachium (Bellum Civile III,47-49)". Eirene 54. 131-154.
• 2017. 'The Proconsul and the Emperor: John Buchan's Augustus', in P. J. Goodman, ed., "Afterlives of Augustus, AD 14-2014". Cambridge. 219-239.