Rhiannon Ash

Rhiannon Ash is a British classical scholar specialising in Latin literature and Tacitus. She is professor of Roman Historiography in the Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. She was formerly a lecturer at the Department of Greek and Latin at University College, London.

Career

Ash completed undergraduate study at Oxford. She subsequently studied for an MA in Toronto, before obtaining a DPhil from the University of Oxford.

Her primary area of research interest is Latin prose literature of the Imperial Era, especially that of Tacitus, Pliny the Elder, and Pliny the Younger. She has published commentaries on book 15 of the Annals and book 2 of the Histories. She has also written extensively on ancient epistles, Greek and Roman biographies, and battle narratives, among other subjects.

Ash has led research projects funded by UKRI, and in 2017, she was the RD Milns Visiting Professor at the University of Queensland. As well as producing academic scholarship, Ash has written for The Times Literary Supplement.

Selected publications

Books

Book chapters and journal articles

References

  1. ↑ Prof. Rhiannon Ash, Oxford University, 2017
  2. ↑ "Professor Rhiannon Ash". classics.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
  3. ↑ Ash, Rhiannon, ed. (7 September 2012). Oxford Readings in Tacitus. Oxford Readings in Classical Studies. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-928509-9.
  4. ↑ Tacitus, Cornelius; Tacitus (2018). Tacitus: Annals Book XV. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-00978-3.
  5. ↑ "Review of: Tacitus: Histories Book II. Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics". Bryn Mawr Classical Review. ISSN 1055-7660.
  6. ↑ "UK Research and Innovation".
  7. ↑ "RD Milns visiting professor". hpi.uq.edu.au. 19 January 2016. Retrieved 15 December 2021.
  8. ↑ "How to write a Roman Life". TLS. Retrieved 22 May 2023.