Dr. Jaclyn Neel
Greek and Roman Studies, Associate Professor
- BA (Columbia University), MA / PhD (University of Toronto)
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Jaclyn Neel received a BA in Classics from Columbia University in 2005 and a combined MA/PhD in Classics and Ancient History from the Collaborative Program in Ancient History at the University of Toronto in 2012. During that time, she also received a TESL-Canada diploma (2011). Her research centres on Roman mythology and political discourse, and she is also interested in the afterlife of antiquity.
Research and Teaching Interests
- Roman history and historiography
- Greco-Roman mythology
- Kingship and tyranny
- The ancient world and modern culture
Publications
Books
Early Rome: Myth and Society. Wiley, 2017.
Legendary Rivals: Collegiality and Ambition in the Tales of Early Rome. Brill, 2014
Chapters and Articles
“The Tomb of Tarpeia,” Eugesta 14 (2024) 鈥攊t is online and open access, DOI :
鈥淪culpting History into Myth: Tarpeia, Barbarians, and the Gallic sack of Rome.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Myth and History in the Historiography of Early Rome. eds. T. J. Cornell, N. Meunier, and D. Miano. Leiden: Brill, 2023. 212-241.
鈥淭here鈥檚 No Crying in Government.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Toxic Masculinity in the Ancient World, eds. A. McMaster and M. Racette-Campbell. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023.
Mnemosyne 77(5), 773-795.
鈥淩epublican Precedents.鈥&苍产蝉辫;The Roman Emperor and His Court c. 30 BC-c AD 300. eds. B. Kelly and A. G. Hug. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 35-59.
鈥: Tarpeia in the Context of 88 BCE.鈥&苍产蝉辫;MAAR 65 (2020), 1-42.
鈥淭arpeia the Vestal.鈥&苍产蝉辫;JRS 109 (2019), 103-30.
鈥淐icero鈥檚 Rhetoric of Terror.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Mouseion 17.3 (2017), 437-53.
鈥淭he Vibennae: Etruscan Heroes and Roman Historiography.鈥&苍产蝉辫;EtrSt. 20.1 (2017), 1-34.
鈥凌别蝉辫辞苍蝉别.鈥&苍产蝉辫;La Saga di Romolo. ed. G. Cairo. Online (2016).
鈥淓pic Rumors: Cicero鈥檚 Target in Dom. 92.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Phoenix 69 (2015), 100-121.
鈥P.Mich.inv.&苍产蝉辫;3935补.鈥&苍产蝉辫;BASP 52 (2015), 43-58.
鈥淩econsidering the affectatores regni.鈥&苍产蝉辫;CQ 65 (2015), 224-41.
Diodorus, Deuteronomy, and Egyptian Agriculture.鈥&苍产蝉辫; VT 62 (2012), 646-51.