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Rhiannon Ash (b. 1968) is Professor of Roman historiography in the Faculty of Classics at University of Oxford, being Fellow and Tutor at Merton College. She is mostly known for her work on Tacitus.

Career

Rhiannon Ash has a M.A. and a DPhil. from University of Oxford, and a MA from the University of Toronto. She is former editor of The Classical Quarterly.

Selected Works

• 'Drip-Feed Invective: Pliny, Self-Fashioning, and the Regulus Letters', in The Author's Voice in Classical Antiquity, Marmodoro A, Hill J (eds.), (Oxford University Press 2013).
• 'Fractured Vision: Josephus and Tacitus on Triumph and Civil War, in Double Vision, Rees R, Madsen J (eds.), (Cambridge University Press 2012).
• 'Never Say Die! Assassinating Emperors in Suetonius Lives of the Caesars', in Fictional Lives. Ancient Biography and Fictionality, De Temmerman K, Demoen K (eds.), (Cambridge University Press 2012).
• 'War Came in Disarray...' (Thebaid 7.616): Statius and the Depiction of Battle, in Blackwell Companion to Statius, Newlands C, Dominik W (eds.), (Blackwell 2012).
• 'Women in Imperial Roman Literature', in A Companion to Women in the Ancient World, James S, Dillon S (eds.), (Blackwell 2012), 442-452.
• Oxford Readings in Tacitus (edited volume), includes an introductory chapter by R. Ash, Ash R (ed.), (Oxford University Press 2012).
• 'Pliny the Elder's Attitude to Warfare', in Pliny the Elder Themes and Contexts, Gibson RK, Morello R (eds.), (Brill Academic Publisher 2011), 1-19.
• 'Fighting Talk: Dillius Vocula's Last Stand (Tacitus Histories 4.58)', in Stimmen der Geschichte: Funktionen von Reden in der antiken Historiographie, Pausch D (ed.), (De Gruyter 2010), 211-231.
• 'Rhoxolani Blues (Tacitus Histories 1.79): Virgil's Scythian Ethnography Revisited', in Latin historiography and poetry in the early empire, Miller JF, Woodman AJ (eds.), (Brill 2010), 141-154.
• 'Tarda Moles Ciuilis Belli: The Weight of the Past in Tacitus' Histories', in Citizens of discord: Rome and its Civil Wars, Breed BW, Damon C, Rossi A (eds.), (Oxford University Press 2010), 119-131.
• 'The Great Escape: Tacitus on the Mutiny of the Usipi (Agricola 28)',, in Ancient historiography and its contexts: Studies in Honour of A.J. Woodman, Kraus CS, Marincola J, Pelling CBR (eds.), (Oxford University Press 2010), 275-293.
• 'Fission and Fusion: Shifting Roman Identities in Tacitus' Histories', in The Cambridge Companion to Tacitus (Cambridge 2009), (Cambridge University Press 2009), 85-99.
• Tacitus: The histories, Co-author: Tacitus C, Wellesley K, (Penguin 2009).

• Tacitus Histories II (Cambridge 2007)

• (with Dr Alison Sharrock, Manchester University), Fifty Key Classical Authors (Routledge 2002)
• Ordering Anarchy: Armies and Leaders in Tacitus' Histories (London and Ann Arbor, Michigan 1999)