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Rex Stem

Rex Stem

Rex Stem

Assistant Professor of Classics


716 Sproul Hall
(530) 754-6060
srstem@


Education

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

Interest Fields

Roman Historiography, Oratory, and Political Thought; The Late Roman Republic

Courses Taught

  • CLA 3: Rome and the Mediterranean
  • CLA 10: Greek, Roman, and Near Eastern Mythology
  • CLA 190: Senior Seminar (topic vary each term)
  • GRK 105N: Attic Orators
  • LAT 110N: Readings in Latin Prose
  • LAT 101: Livy
  • LAT 104: Sallust
  • LAT 111: Silver Age Latin
  • LAT 112: Cicero - Political Writings
  • LAT 114: Cicero - Philosophical Works

Publications (Selected)

"The Exemplary Lessons of Livy's Romulus," Transactions of the American Philological Association, 137.1 (2007)

"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.