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Rex Stem Assistant Professor, Classics Program srstem@ucdavis.edu 716 Sproul Hall (530) 754-6060

Member of the UC Davis faculty since 2006

Teaching Interests
Latin and Greek language and literature, especially oratory and historiography; Greek and Roman Civilization

Research Interests
Cicero, Caesar, and the fall of the Roman Republic; Roman oratory, historiography, and political thought

Education
University of Michigan, Ph. D. in Classical Studies, 1999
University College, Oxford, M. St. in Classical Languages, 1992
Harvard University, B. A. in Classics (Latin), 1991

Recent Publications
"The Exemplary Lessons of Livy's Romulus," Transactions of the American Philological Association, 137.1 (2007), forthcoming (54 pages in typescript)

"Cicero as Orator and Philosopher: The Value of the Pro Murena for Ciceronian Political Thought," The Review of Politics 68.2 (2006) 206-231

"The First Eloquent Stoic: Cicero on Cato the Younger," Classical Journal 101.1 (2005/6) 37-49

Posthumous editor of: Robert J. Edgeworth, "The Silence of Vergil and the End of the Aeneid," Vergilius 51 (2005) 3-11

"Nepos' Atticus as a Biography of Friendship," Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History XII, Collection Latomus 287 (2005) 115-129

"The First Word of Cicero's Pro Murena," Latomus 63.2 (2004) 304-309

"The Res Gestae of Augustus and the Teaching of Latin Style," Classical Outlook 80.3 (2003) 101-106

"The Thirty at Athens in the Summer of 404," Phoenix 57.1-2 (2003) 18-34