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Name Diana Spencer
Position Professor of Classics
Institutional Affiliation University of Birmingham
Latitude 52.4508
Longitude -1.9305
Research Interests

Roman intellectual culture in 1st centuries BCE/CE; Landscape and identity in Rome

Websites https://about.me/diana.spencer; http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/caha/spencer-diana.aspx; https://bham.academia.edu/DianaSpencer
Publications

"Books

2010. Roman Landscape: Culture and Identity. Greece & Rome New Surveys in the Classics 39. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2007 (ed.), with D. H. J. Larmour. The Sites of Rome: Time, Space, Memory. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2006 (ed.), with E. Theodorakopoulos. Advice and its Rhetoric in Greece and Rome. Bari: Levante.
2002. The Roman Alexander: Reading a Cultural Myth. Exeter: University of Exeter Press.
Selected articles and book chapters

2016. ‘Vitruvius, Landscape and Heterotopias: How ‘otherspaces’ enrich Roman identity ’, in R. Kennedy, and M. Jones-Lewis (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Identity and the Environment in the Classical and Early Medieval Worlds. London: Routledge, 171-191.
2015a. ‘Authority, allusion and Rome-speak in Varro’s De lingua Latina’, in D. Butterfield (ed.) Varro Varius: The Polymath of the Roman World, Cambridge Classical Journal Supplement 39. Cambridge, 73-92.
2015b. ‘Urban flux: Varro’s Rome in Progress’, in I. Ostenberg, S. Malmberg, and J. Bjornebye (eds.) The Moving City: Processions, Passages and Promenades in Ancient Rome. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 99-110.
2011. 'Horace and the con/straints of translation', in S. McElduff and E. Sciarrino (eds.) Complicating the History of Western Translation. Manchester: St. Jerome Publishing, 101-116.
2011. '῾Ρωμαίζω… ergo sum: Becoming Roman in Varro’s "de Lingua Latina", in M. Bommas (ed.) Cultural Memory and Identity in Ancient Societies. London: Continuum, 43-60.
2011. 'Movement and the linguistic turn: Reading Varro's de Lingua Latina', in R. Laurence and D. J. Newsome (eds.) Rome, Ostia, Pompeii: Movement and Space. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 57-80.
2010. ‘“You Should Never Meet Your Heroes...”: Growing Up with Alexander, the Valerius Maximus Way’, in E. Carney and D. Ogden (eds.) Philip II and Alexander the Great: Father and Son, Lives and Afterlives. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 175-91.
2009. ‘Roman Alexanders: Epistemology and Identity’, in W. Heckel and L. Tritle (eds.) Alexander the Great: A New History. Chichester: Blackwell, 251-74.
2008. ‘Singing in the garden: Statius’ plein air lyric (after Horace)’, in J. Blevins (ed.) Dialogism and Lyric Self-Fashioning: Bakhtin and the Voices of a Genre. Selinsgrove, PA: Susquehanna University Press, 66-83.
2007. ‘Rome at a gallop: Livy, on not gazing, jumping or toppling into the void’, in D. H. J. Larmour and D. Spencer (eds.) The Sites of Rome: Time, Space, Memory. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 61-101.
2007. ‘Roma, recepta: A Topography of the Imagination’, with D. H. J. Larmour, in D. H. J. Larmour and D. Spencer (eds.) The Sites of Rome: Time, Space, Memory. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1-60.
2006. ‘Telling it like it is…: Seneca, Alexander and the dynamics of epistolary advice’, in D. Spencer and E. Theodorakopoulos (eds.) Advice and its Rhetoric in Greece and Rome. Bari: Levante, 79-104.
2006. ‘“Good men who have skill in speaking”: Performing Advice in Rome’, with E. Theodorakopoulos, in D. Spencer and E. Theodorakopoulos (eds.) Advice and its Rhetoric in Greece and Rome. Bari: Levante, 1-29.
2006. ‘Horace’s garden thoughts: Rural retreats and the urban imagination’ in R. Rosen and I. Sluiter (eds.) City and countryside in the ancient imagination. Brill: Leiden, 239-74.
2005. ‘Perspective and Poetics in Curtius’ Gorgeous East’. Acta Classica 48: 121-40.
2005. ‘Lucan’s Follies: Memory and ruin in a civil war landscape’. Greece & Rome 52.1: 46-69.
2003. ‘Horace and the Company of Kings: Art and Artfulness in Epistle 2.1’. Materiali e discussioni per l’analisi dei testi classici. 51.2: 135-60.
2001. ‘Propertius, Hercules, and the Dynamics of Roman Mythic Space in Elegy 4.9’. Arethusa 34.3: 259-84"
from http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/caha/spencer-diana.aspx on 7-7-17.

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