Richard W. Burgess
Full Professor, Department of Classics and Religious Studies
Member of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies and thereby authorized to supervise theses.
Office: ARTS 013
Telephone: 613-562-5800, ext. 1331
E-mail: rburgess@uOttawa.ca
University degrees
1989 - DPhil, Oxford University
1984 - MA, University of Toronto
1983 - BA, Trinity College, Toronto
Fields of interest
- Late Roman chronicles
- Editing texts
- Late Roman history and historiography
- Late Roman coinage, especially fifth century Western
Courses taught
- LCL1101 Latin I
- LCL1102 Latin II
- CLA1102 Roman Civilization
- LCL2151 Greek I
- LCL2152 Greek II
- LCL3151 Ancient Greek III
- LCL3152 Ancient Greek IV
- LCL3355 Selections from Greek Authors (Plato)
- LCL4150 Greek Authors (New Testament, Herodotus, and Thucydides)
Selected publications
Books
Chronicles, Consuls, and Coins: Historiography and History in the Later Roman Empire (Variorum Collected Studies Series; London, 2011).
with Michael Kulikowski, Mosaics of Time. The Latin Chronicle Traditions from the Late Republic to the Early Middle Ages 1: A History of the Chronicle from the Ancient Near East to the European Middle Ages (Studies in the Early Middle Ages 33; Brepols, 2011).
Studies in Eusebian and Post-Eusebian Chronography. 1. The Chronici canones of Eusebius of Caesarea. Content and Chronology, A.D. 282-325 and 2. The Continuatio Antiochiensis Eusebii: A Chronicle of Antioch and the Roman Near East in the Reigns of Constantine and Constantius II, AD 325-350 (Historia Einzelschrift 135; Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart: 1999), 358 pp.; in association with Witold Witakowski.
The Chronicle of Hydatius and the Consularia Constantinopolitana: Two Contemporary Accounts of the Final Years of the Roman Empire (Clarendon Press, Oxford: 1993; reprinted 1995).
In Preparation
1-3. with Michael Kulikowski, Mosaics of Time. The Latin Chronicle Traditions from the Late Republic to the Early Middle Ages 2, 3, and 4 (Studies in the Early Middle Ages 34-6; Brepols).
Chapters in Books
‘The Gallic Chronicle of 511: A New Critical Edition with a Brief Introduction’ in Ralph W. Mathisen and Danuta Schanzer (eds.), Society and Culture in Late Antique Gaul. Revisiting the Sources (Aldershot, UK; 2001), pp. 85-100.
‘The Gallic Chronicle of 452: A New Critical Edition with a Brief Introduction’ in Ralph W. Mathisen and Danuta Schanzer (eds.), Society and Culture in Late Antique Gaul. Revisiting the Sources (Aldershot, UK; 2001), pp. 52-84.
Refereed Articles and Encyclopedia Entries
‘Numismatics, Late Empire’, in Yann le Bohec (ed.), Encyclopedia of the Roman Army (Oxford, 2011).
‘Annales Andecavenses’, ‘Anonymi Valesiani pars posterior’, ‘Anonymus Matritensis’, ‘Apollodorus of Athens’, ‘Cassiodorus’, ‘Castor of Rhodes’, ‘Chronica urbis Romae’, ‘Chronicon Romanum’, ‘Chronographer of 354’, ‘Consularia and fasti’, ‘Consularia Constantinopolitana’, ‘Consularia Hafniensia’, ‘Consularia Italica’, ‘Consularia Ravennatia’, ‘Continuatio Eusebii Antiochiensis’, ‘Cornelius Nepos’, ‘Epitome de caesaribus’, ‘Eratosthenes’, ‘Eusebius of Caesarea’ (and continuations), ‘Eutropius’, ‘Excerpta Latina Barbari’, ‘Excerpta Sangallensia’, ‘Fasti Berolinenses’, ‘Fasti Ostienses’, ‘Fasti Vindobonenses’, ‘Festus’, ‘Gallic Chronicle of 452’, ‘Gallic Chronicle of 511’, ‘Golenischev Chronicle’, ‘Historia Augusta’, ‘Hydatius’, ‘Kaisergeschichte’, ‘Liber genealogus’, ‘Lindian chronicle’, ‘Marcellinus comes’ (and continuation), ‘Marius of Avenches’, ‘Oxyrhynchus Chronicle’, ‘Parian Marble’, ‘Paschale Campanum’, ‘Phlegon of Tralles’, ‘Titus Pomponius Atticus’, ‘Porphyry of Tyre’, ‘Prosper of Aquitaine’ (and continuations), and ‘Sextus Aurelius Victor’ in Graeme Dunphy et al. (edd.). The Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle (Leiden, 2010).
‘The Summer of Blood: The “Great Massacre” of 337 and the Promotion of the Sons of Constantine’, Dumbarton Oaks Papers 62 (2008), 5-51 (appeared in 2010).
with Geoffrey Greatrex and Hugh Elton, ‘Urbicius’ Epitedeuma: An Edition, Translation, and Commentary’, Byzantinische Zeitschrift 98 (2005), 37-76.
‘A Common Source for Jerome, Eutropius, Festus, Ammianus, and the Epitome de Caesaribus between 358 and 378, along with Further Thoughts on the Date and Nature of the Kaisergeschichte’, Classical Philology 100 (2005), 166-92.
‘The Passio Artemii, Philostorgius, and the Dates of the Invention and Translations of the Relics of Sts Andrew and Luke’, Analecta Bollandiana.121 (2003), 5-36.
‘Jerome Explained: An Introduction to his Chronicle and a Guide to its Use’, Ancient History Bulletin 16 (2002), 1-32.
‘Eutropius v.c. Magister memoriae?’, Classical Philology 96 (2001), 76-81.
‘“Non duo Antonini sed duo Augusti”: The Consuls of 161 and the Origins and Traditions of the Latin Consular Fasti of the Roman Empire’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 132 (2000), 259-90.
‘The Date of the Deposition of Eustathius of Antioch’, Journal of Theological Studies NS 51 (2000), 150-60.
‘The Dates of the First Siege of Nisibis and the Death of James of Nisibis’, Byzantion 69 (1999), 7-17.
‘The Dates of the Martyrdom of Simeon bar SabbaÑ e and the “Great Massacre”’, AB 117 (1999), 9-66.
‘Ἀχυρών or Προάστειον? The Location and Circumstances of Constantine's Death’, JTS NS 50 (1999), 153-61.
‘Overlooked Evidence for Grain Prices in Antioch, A.D. 333’, ZPE 120 (1998), 295-8.
‘The Dates and Editions of Eusebius’ Chronici canones and Historia ecclesiastica’, JTS NS 48 (1997), 471-504.
‘The Date of the Persecution of Christians in the Army’, JTS NS 47 (1996), 157-8.
‘Jerome and the Kaisergeschichte’, Historia 44 (1995), 349-69.
‘On the Date of the Kaisergeschichte’, CP 90 (1995), 111-128.
Response to rebuttal of ‘The Dark Ages Return to Fifth-Century Britain’, Britannia 25 (1994), 240-3.
‘The Accession of Marcian in the Light of Chalcedonian Apologetic and Monophysite Polemic’, BZ 86/87 (1993/1994), 47-68.
‘Principes cum tyrannis: Two Studies on the Kaisergeschichte and its Tradition’, Classical Quarterly 43 (1993), 491-500.
‘The Dark Ages Return to Fifth-Century Britain: The ‘Restored’ Gallic Chronicle Exploded’, Britannia 21 (1990), 185-95.
‘History vs Historiography in Late Antiquity’ (review article of Michael Whitby, The Emperor Maurice and his Historian [Clarendon Press, Oxford: 1988]), The Ancient History Bulletin 4 (1990), 116-24.
‘Consuls and Consular Dating in the Later Roman Empire’ (review article of Roger S. Bagnall, et al., Consuls of the Later Roman Empire [Scholars Press, Atlanta: 1987]), Phoenix 43 (1989), 143-57.
‘A New Reading for Hydatius Chronicle 177 and the Defeat of the Huns in Italy’, Phoenix 42 (1988), 357-63.
‘Quinquennial Vota and the Imperial Consulship, 337-511’, Numismatic Chronicle 148 (1988), 77-96 + plates 23-28.
‘The Third Regnal Year of Eparchius Avitus: A Reply’, CP 82 (1987), 335-45.
‘The Ninth Consulship of Honorius, A.D. 411 and 412’, ZPE 65 (1986), 211-21.
Published Conference Papers
‘The History and Origins of the Latin Chronicle Tradition’, with Michael Kulikowski. In Erik Kooper (ed.). The Medieval Chronicle VI. Amsterdam/New York, 2009, pp. 153-77.
‘A Chronological Prolegomenon to Reconstructing Eusebius’ Chronici canones: The Evidence of Ps-Dionysius (the Zuqnin Chronicle)’, Journal of the Canadian Society for Syriac Studies 6 (2006), 29-38.
‘Apologetic and Chronography: The Antecedents of Julius Africanus’, in Martin Walraff (ed.), Iulius Africanus und die christliche Weltchronistik (Texte und Untersuchungen zur altchristlichen Literatur; Berlin/New York: 2006), pp. 17-42.
‘Jerome’s Chronici canones, Quellenforschung, and Fourth-Century Historiography’, in Giorgio Bonamente, François Heim, and Jean-Pierre Callu (eds.), Historiae Augustae Colloquium Argentoratense. Atti dei Convegni sulla Historia Augusta VI (Bari, 1998), pp. 83-104.
‘Hydatius and the Final Frontier: The Fall of the Roman Empire and the End of the World’. Conference: Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity. University of Kansas, March 1995, published in Ralph W. Mathisen and Hagith S. Sivan (eds.), Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity (Variorum, Aldershot, England: 1996), pp. 321-32.
‘From Gallia Romana to Gallia Gothica: The View from Spain’, Conference: Fifth-Century Gaul: A Crisis of Identity? University of Sheffield, April 1989, published in John Drinkwater and Hugh Elton (eds.), Fifth-Century Gaul: A Crisis of Identity? (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge: 1992), pp. 19-27.
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